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Substance Use Specialist

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New York, United States Center for Alternative Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Job Title: Substance Use Specialist

Job Summary:

CASES is looking for a Substance Use Specialist to join the Nathaniel Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team. The Substance Use Specialists play a crucial role in our Nathaniel Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team, an innovative and alternative-to-incarceration (ATI) program. They are responsible for conducting initial drug use assessments, facilitating individual and group counseling sessions, and actively contributing to person/family-centered, trauma-informed treatment plans. Working collaboratively with a diverse team, including client therapists, primary care providers, peers, and case managers, they ensure comprehensive care for our program clients. This includes implementing SBIRTS (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment), crisis intervention techniques, and relapse prevention strategies.

Our Nathaniel ACT Team specializes in providing mobile, community-based mental health treatment to individuals aged 18 and above with serious mental illnesses, co-occurring substance use disorders, frequent emergency/crisis service utilization, and involvement in the criminal legal system through Manhattan or Brooklyn courts. We are dedicated to promoting recovery, community integration, and successful completion of ATI mandates for our clients.

Salary: The salary for this role is $52,000 per year

Shift Hours: This position is full-time 9:00am - 5:00pm

Location Address: 151 Lawrence St, 3rd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11201. Our office is easily accessible by public transportation.

Workplace Flexibility:

  • This position is On-site: This role is 100% in-office/in person.

What you will be doing:

  • Complete the ACT comprehensive assessment and lead the assessment of the addiction related components of the assessment.
  • Identify the treatment services consumers should receive in ACT based on severity of substance use diagnosis, stage of change and immediate needs; and recommend treatment objectives for the consumer’s service plan.
  • During the assessment obtains information: a) to establish the degree of risk for substance use and associated harmful behaviors, and interventions required to promote progress towards recovery, and b) lead the ACT team in daily meetings and weekly clinical meetings around addiction issues and incorporate findings into service plans.
  • Build in review and evaluation points, and modify the service plan in the light of feedback from recipients and relevant others
  • Collaborate with consumers and their support systems to develop and review comprehensive service plans on a semi-annual basis.
  • Facilitate weekly Relapse Prevention group sessions
  • Complete 6-month comprehensive assessment, crisis intervention and relapse prevention plans, progress notes and other significant data
  • Provide individual mental health, relapse prevention, harm reduction and substance abuse counseling based on motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral responses to mental illness and substance abuse
  • Work effectively with the consumer’s support system, education and vocational training providers, and self-help groups providing services to ACT consumers. Link consumers to self-help recovery groups
  • Complete at least 68 face to face treatment contacts in the community each month.
  • Direct standards for toxicology screens, along with team psychiatrist and in accordance with Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) orders.
  • Assess and provide support to consumers to address needs for problem- solving, wellness self-management, housing, income support, education and vocational training, social supports, employment, and primary care.
  • Act as an advocate and liaison for consumers in securing emergency detox and rehabilitation care, and other community supports that promote integrated dual disorder treatment
  • Evaluate, on a continuing basis, use of services and expected outcomes.
  • Involve family, significant others, and housing providers in treatment
  • Provide 24-hour crisis intervention on-call services on rotating basis
  • Provide 80 percent of treatment contacts in the community

What we are looking for:

  • High School Diploma/HSE/GED
  • Full CASAC credential required
  • At least two years of experience working in human services with individuals with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders
  • Experience understanding various evidence-based models and theories pertaining to trauma-informed care, motivational interviewing, stage-wise approach to treatment of substance abuse and serious mental illness
  • Highly organized and self-motivated

Preferred but not required:

  • Knowledge utilizing electronic health record and/or databases. Knowledge of Foothold AWARDS is preferred.

Employee Benefits:

CASES cares about employee wellbeing, and we offer a comprehensive benefits package to support you and your family, including:

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Vacation and Paid Time Off – starting at 25 days-off annually
  • 12 Paid Holidays per year
  • Retirement 403b Competitive matching up to 6%
  • Employee Referral Program
  • Visit www.cases.org/careers/ to learn more about benefits offered by the CASES

Although we would love to learn about the skills of every candidate, only selected candidates that are selected will receive a response. We encourage you to apply for any position(s) you feel you are qualified for.


CASES is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment with CASES is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position without regard to race, color, ethnic or national origin, age, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital, military, or citizenship status. We also actively recruit individuals with prior involvement in the criminal legal system.