Job Description

ResCare Community Living, a part of the Sevita family, provides quality services that empower individuals, enhance independence, and help people live well. Since 1974, we’ve supported individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live more independently at home and in their community. With our dedicated team and experienced staff, we provide person-centered services that help people build skills, overcome challenges, and reach their full potential.

The Substance Use Specialist works within an interdisciplinary team intended to provide intensive, frequent, wrap-around services to individuals who have a diagnosis of serious and persistent mental illness. The Substance Use Specialist is assigned to persons served individualized treatment teams who have identified substance use that interferes with their goals and functioning and work along-side other specialists in carrying out rehabilitative interventions specific to co-occurring evidence-based practices. As part of the person(s) served individualized treatment team, the Substance Use Specialist is responsible for conducting assessments that monitor the person(s) served goals and functioning on an ongoing basis. The Substance Use Specialist typically sees approximately 16 to 20 persons served within 1 working week and is expected to communicate interactions with the person served at daily team meetings and documenting these interventions in the Electronic Health Record.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential function listed below.

• Conducting a variety of clinical assessments to monitor persons served goal areas and functioning on an ongoing basis.
• Carries out interventions in the community and effectively communicates each interaction to the team in daily team meetings, as well as in the electronic health record.
• Frequent activities include resource maintenance and acquisition, coordination with external providers and natural supports, monitoring the persons served substance use ongoing and making recommendations.
• The Substance use Specialist is considered the team expert on co-occurring evidence-based treatment approaches and substance use trends in the community.
• The Substance Use Specialist is part of crisis response at the lowest level of escalation, engages in risk mitigation and harm reduction practices.
• The Substance Use Specialist also participates in a rotation of on-call shifts.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
• None

Minimum Knowledge and Skills required for the Job
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilities required to perform the job.

Education and Experience:
• Holds a bachelor's degree in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields from an accredited college or university, and/or has at least 4,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to persons with serious and persistent mental illness; or holds a graduate degree in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields.
• Individuals with 2,000 hours of experience in the delivery of mental health services to adults will also be considered as a Mental Health Rehab Worker until full supervision hours are met.
• The agency encourages staff to seek license at the highest standard permitted by their education and experience.

Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations:
• All staff are supported in gaining certification as a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner.
• LADC is preferred.

Other Skills and Abilities:
• N/A.

Other Requirements:
• Travel as needed.

Physical Requirements:
• Medium Work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Sevita is a leading provider of home and community-based specialized health care. We believe that everyone deserves to live a full, more independent life. We provide people with quality services and individualized supports that lead to growth and independence, regardless of the physical, intellectual, or behavioral challenges they face.

We’ve made this our mission for more than 50 years. And today, our 40,000 team members continue to innovate and enhance care for the 50,000 individuals we serve all over the U.S.

As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.