Substance Use Disorder Professional; SUDP

This member of the multidisciplinary team assesses, plans, develops, coordinates, and provides treatment, rehabilitation, and support services to program clients with severe and persistent mental illnesses under the clinical supervision of the team leader and the psychiatrist. Treatment is provided primarily in the community at a location that best meets the needs of the clients served.

• Provide service coordination (case management), engagement and motivational enhancement strategies, problem solving and relapse prevention for an assigned group of clients.
• Conduct comprehensive substance use assessments that consider the relationship between substance use and mental health. Apply stages of treatment and functional analysis to inform treatment planning.
• Provide individual supportive therapy and symptom management, ensuring immediate changes are made in the treatment plans as clients' needs change.
• Educate and support clients' families, and advocate for clients' rights and preferences.

• Acts as liaison and consult with community agencies and families to maintain coordination in the treatment process.
• Provide on‑call crisis intervention covering nighttime hours, medication monitoring, and case management.
• Document client progress to maintain a permanent record of client activity according to established methods and procedures.
• Provide treatment, rehabilitation, and support services with some interventions directed or performed by staff with specialty training and skills.
• Take the lead role or participate in providing substance use and treatment services.

• Provide ongoing assessment, problem solving, side‑by‑side services, skill training, supervision (e.g., prompts, assignments, monitoring, encouragement), and environmental adaptations to assist clients with activities of daily living.
• Provide individual supportive therapy (e.g., problem solving, role‑playing, modeling and support), social‑skill development, and assertiveness training to increase client social and interpersonal activities in community settings.
• Provide ongoing assessment of clients' occurring disorders symptoms and clients' response to treatment.
• Make appropriate changes in treatment plans to ensure immediate and appropriate interventions are provided in response to changes in mental status or behavior which put clients at risk.
• Provide symptom education to enable clients to identify their mental illness symptoms.
• Provide direct clinical services including individual supportive therapy to clients on an individual, group, and family basis in the office and in community settings to teach behavioral symptom management techniques to alleviate and manage symptoms not reduced with medication and to promote personal growth and development by assisting clients to adapt to and cope with internal and external stresses.
• Provide individual and group treatment in the office and in community settings in a stage‑based treatment model that is non‑confrontational, considers interactions of mental illness and substance abuse, and has client‑determined goals.
• Coordinate with outside inpatient services to detoxify clients and establish linkage to outpatient treatment self‑ and help programs.
  • Alcoholics Anonymous
  • Narcotics Anonymous
  • Outpatient services
  • Residential facilities
• Take a lead role or participate in the provision of rehabilitation services.
• Organize and lead individual and group social and recreational activities to structure clients' time, increase social experiences, and provide opportunities to practice social skills and receive feedback and support.

Perform other duties as assigned.

The following requirements are those that are normally required for performance of this position. Any disabled applicant or incumbent who does not meet or more of the physical requirements, but who can perform the essential function of the job (with or without reasonable accommodations) shall be deemed to meet these requirements.

This position normally requires that physical demands of standing, walking,…