Senior Addiction Counselor - Level I

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$67,077.00/yr - $77,139.00/yr

Since 1875, South Brooklyn Health has established its reputation for clinical excellence and culturally competent care. It has designations as a Certified Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Center, an Advanced Primary Stroke Center, an accredited Baby-Friendly Hospital, a U.S. News & World Report high performing hospital. The hospital's staff is as diverse as the patients they serve. Interpreter services can be provided at any time of the day or night in over 130 languages.

Purpose of Position:
The Senior Addiction Counselor serves as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team and participates in and/or leads the development and implementation of clinically sound, culturally relevant, medically monitored treatment programs, case management, care coordination and other supportive and consultative services for patients in Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment, in a sensitive and caring manner, and promotes the notion of recovery and self-sufficiency, as a goal of treatment.

• Conducts initial screenings and assessments of patients, and performs ongoing toxicology screenings to obtain pertinent information about SUD and Co-Occurring Disorder (COD) and develop psycho-social histories of patients to identify and isolate potential SUD and other specific patient problems; formulates appropriate diagnostic impressions; prepares accurate screening, intake, and assessment reports.
• Facilitates and/or co-facilitates individual, group, and family counseling for patients admitted to a SUD treatment program, provides psycho-education, and conducts skills training classes.
• Makes decisions and maintains required records regarding appropriate Level of Care (LOC) using patient criteria tools, such as LOC for alcohol and drug treatment referral (LOCADTR), a patient placement criterion system, to ensure that a patient in need of chemical dependence services is placed in the most clinically appropriate level of care.
• Develops and continually monitors treatment/recovery plans in collaboration with patients and members of the multidisciplinary team, including establishment of short-term and long-term treatment goals, objectives, and specific interventions.
• Participates in the evaluation of treatment progress and monitoring of patients’ recovery plans. Prepares and maintains confidential case records and files and records progress of patient in relation to treatment goals and objectives.
• Participates in relevant staff meetings and discussions and documents services provided in case records and files in a timely and accurate manner and in compliance with all applicable standards.
• Discusses financial responsibility with patients in the case of outstanding bills, and provides money management assistance.
• Provides orientation to new patients, patients’ families and significant others, to familiarize them with the program’s rules, goals, procedures, services and expectations over the course of treatment; establishes and maintains relationships with patients’ families and significant others, and provides support by ensuring appropriate referrals, identifying service gaps, expanding community resources and helping to address unmet needs.
• Coordinates and provides case and care management services and activities that integrate supportive services, agency, professional and/or community resources in a planned framework of action, which address a patient’s mental, physical, and/or behavioral needs in order to achieve the patient’s established goals.
• Provides crisis intervention and support by responding to and following-through in crisis situations, and seeks additional assistance in the management of crisis situations, when needed.
• Acts as a liaison and advises staff of patient needs with regards to job training, housing, and education programs; may advise patient on job, education, or drug treatment…