Substance Use Disorder Counselor BHT

Compassionate Substance Use Counselor Needed!

Position Overview

• Substance abuse
• counselor
• will be in charge with assisting patients through
• medically
• assisting treatments and offering techniques for handling opioid addiction. Counselor conducts individual sessions to assist with crisis management and coping strategies.

Counselor

will evaluate patients’ progress during counseling and collaborate with doctors, nurses and other counselors to assist the patients’ achieving overall outcome.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual counseling services; direct service hours at regularly scheduled intervals; coordinate all services throughout treatment
• .
• Conducts individual initial assessment and evaluation interviews for service eligibility determination
• .
• Completes Bio-psychosocial assessment.
• Facilitates, establishes and reviews with each patient the initial treatment plan
• .
• Involve families and significant others in patient’s recovery process whenever possible
• .
• Respond, as needed, to patient grievances and complaints
• .
• Develop aftercare plans and discharge plans
• .
• Other related duties as determined by supervisor
• .

Qualifications

Master’s

Degree

in Behavioral Science

Field

with 1 year of experience.

LASAC (Associate Substance Abuse Counselor

in

AZ

)

or

• higher
• Previous experience working with chemically dependent individuals a plus.
• Must demonstrate a positive, non-judgmental, and accepting attitude toward our patient population
• .
• Satisfactory criminal background check and drug screen

What to expect from us

BAART

Programs

• , a BayMark Health Services company,
• is
• a progressive substance abuse treatment organization
• is committed
• to the highest quality of patient care in a comfortable outpatient clinic setting.

Our

• ultimate goal
• is to address the physical, emotional, and mental aspects of opioid use disorder to help each of our patients achieve long-term recovery and an improved quality of life.

BayMark Health Services

is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all Federal, State and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, natural origin, ethnicity, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, genetic disposition, disability or veteran’s status or any other classification protected by State/Federal laws.