Addiction Counselor, Days Jobs

JOB PURPOSE:
Provide Chemical Dependency counseling services to the Piedmont Healthcare Behavioral Health Programs. This will include group, individual, and family therapy.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Provides individual, group, and marital/family therapy/counseling
2. Provides chemical dependency assessments
3. Provides treatment planning
4. Provides discharge planning
5. Provides linkage to community resources
6. Provides referrals to extended treatment or continuation of care
7. Conducts psychoeducational groups and classes for patients and families
8. Functions as a member of interdisciplinary team
9. Ensures and maintains appropriate confidentiality, privacy and privileged communication
10. Maintains appropriate professional boundaries
11. Possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills
12. Is knowledgeable of and follows all policies in daily job performance

PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS:
A. Core Competencies:
1. Service: Strives to meet expectations/needs of customers; responds to concerns with sense of urgency; seeks win-win solutions for unreasonable patient/customer expectations
2. Quality/Ethics/Integrity: Seeks opportunities for improvement; prevents small problems from becoming large ones; pays attention to detail; follows instructions and protocol/procedures; adheres to company code of conduct; maintains integrity in all aspects of his/her work
3. Relationships: Builds effective working relationships; finds and provides information to clarify situations; expands on original ideas; contributes own ideas; places high priority on other team members’ goals; gains team agreement to support ideas; clearly explains rationale behind ideas/goals; demonstrates sensitivity to differing cultural views and needs
4. Adaptability: Seeks to understand changes in work tasks/processes; actively seeks information about new tasks/processes; treats change and new tasks/processes as opportunities for learning and personal growth; speaks positively about changes to others; quickly modifies behavior to deal effectively with change

Requirements

MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIRED:
Chemical Dependency certification required

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Six (6) months of supervised experience in an addictive disease treatment setting, and/or minimum of three (3) years of continuous active recovery in 12 step programs.

MINIMUM LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION REQUIRED BY LAW:
Must maintain certification for CPI and CPR per hospital policy.
Must maintain professional certification as one of the following: CAC; CAC I; CAC II; NCAC II; CCS; CADC.

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
None.

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