Substance Abuse Counselor
17 hours ago
We are seeking a highly skilled and compassionate Substance Abuse Counselor to join our team at WestCare Foundation. As a Substance Abuse Counselor, you will play a critical role in providing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to clients participating in our SUD program.
Key Responsibilities:- Complete assessments of each client using required assessment tools.
- Initiate and sustain each individual's motivation to participate in treatment, using techniques of engagement including therapeutic relationships, individual counseling, and brief interventions.
- Develop comprehensive service plans for each participant, including results of assessments, and short- and long-term treatment goals and objectives.
- Prepare monthly reports for WestCare and outside agencies.
- Conduct client drug tests.
- Communicate with outside agencies if clients do not fulfill all expectations of the program.
- Provide daily treatment and curriculum-based education groups on therapeutic communities, relapse prevention, motivation for treatment, and stages of change.
- Maintain individual client treatment files in accordance with agency policies and procedures.
- Maintain all information according to the laws of confidentiality.
- Clinical certification as a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor from the Illinois Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse Professional Certification Association (IAODAPCA), or licensure as a professional counselor or licensed clinical professional counselor, or licensure as a social worker or licensed clinical social worker.
- Two years of experience providing alcohol and substance abuse counseling services.
- Knowledge of offender populations, criminal subcultures, cultural differences, substance abuse assessment tools, therapeutic community concepts, and various specialty treatment categories.
- Bilingual skills (Spanish) and experience with intake duties are preferred.
The work is primarily performed in a professional setting. Some outdoor activities may be required.
The employee must be able to perform the following essential duties and activities with or without accommodation:
- Requires mobility and physical activity, including standing and walking, sitting for extended periods, bending, twisting, reaching, balancing, occasional lifting and carrying of up to 50 pounds.
- Requires talking, expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.
- Requires hearing, receiving and communicating detailed information through oral communication.
- Requires seeing, clarity of vision at 20 inches or less and at distance.
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