Job Description

Credentialed Addiction Medicine Substance Abuse Counselor responsibilities include:

1. Promote a safe, cooperative and professional health care environment to ensure optimum patient care (as per HR Policy 113c).

2. Adheres to all hospital policies, procedures, rules and regulations, including but not limited to, absenteeism, ETIME, cellular telephone usage, dress code and rules of conduct.

3. Makes Customer Service a priority, treating customers (patients, visitors, and co-workers) in a professional manner exercising courtesy and tact. Effectively communicates with patients and others about SBH services in their area(s) of expertise or responsibility and ensures that concerns, questions or issues reach the right person(s) in SBH in a timely fashion.

4. Demonstrates the standards of performance and behaviors consistent with the DRIVE to Patient-Centered Excellence.

5. Conducts individual counseling session, open and closed groups, family and con-joint counseling sessions.

6. Presents alcoholism and substance abuse educational information to patients and significant others.

7. Functions as part of an inter-disciplinary team. Ensures referrals to modalities of such as determined by the needs of the patient.

8. Write clear, timely, concise progress notes, areas of conflict short term, long term treatment planning and psychosocial history, etc.

9. Assess new patients upon admission.

10. Conducts small group activities.

11. Maintain and enhance professional growth and development through in-services, seminars, workshops, professional affiliations, etc.

12. Functions in a leadership capacity and resource person for the counselors.

13. Provides timely progress reports to referring agencies.

14. Understands the Diversion Prevention Plan for the Methadone Substance Abuse Treatment Program and Medical Managed Detox Unit.

Qualifications

CASAC

1-3 Years of experience working in Addiction Medicine.