What are the responsibilities and job description for the Counselor position at ABODE TREATMENT INC?
Job Details
Job Location: Evans - Fort Worth, TX
Position Type: Full Time
Education Level: 2 Year Degree
Salary Range: Undisclosed
Travel Percentage: Negligible
Job Shift: Any
Job Category: Professional Services
Description
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Reports to: |
Program Manager |
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Positions Supervised: |
None |
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Status: |
Exempt, Full Time |
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Summary/Objective
The Counselor is responsible for providing case management care and services to client and families through intake assessment, individual counseling, group therapy, and case coordination with all interested parties through discharge and aftercare.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Provide direct care services. Provide information/referral to clients and families of client with a substance abuse problem and families of clients or anyone who may request help as an individual associated with a person with a chemical use problem.
- Conduct intake assessments using the multidisciplinary assessment or the Addiction Severity Index, develop treatment plan with client, family, and other treatment team members, (to include Criminal Justice officers). Ensure that appropriate required paperwork is completed and signed.
- Obtain necessary information from clients to complete appropriate TDSHS, BHIPS, CODAP, and billing forms.
- Conduct group and individual therapy sessions with clients. Document client’s progress, length of session, and date on appropriate progress/chronology note.
- Develop discharge plans/summaries and refer clients to appropriate inpatient/outpatient/after-care sources as clinically indicated.
- Prepare educational material and other items needed to facilitate educational and didactic groups
- Attend appropriate continuing education hours per year. Participate in staffing and in-service training
- Comply with TDSHS, TDCJ, DFPS, PRS and ABODE Treatment, Inc. standards relating to client care and documentation.
- Be available 24 hours per day, 7 days a week to provide professional crisis management services to each client in care according to their individual needs.
- Assist in other tasks, as assigned
Qualifications
Education & Training
- Associates degree in Behavioral Sciences, Criminal Justice, or related fields. Bachelors degree or higher preferred. (Exception for LCDCs licensed prior to September 9, 2008: Additional years’ experience, in excess of the required three [3] years, may be substituted on a year-for-year basis.)
- Two (2) years’ experience in chemical dependency programs
- LCDC, LMFT, LCSW, LMSW, LPC; must maintain current license for continued employment
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Intimate knowledge of Chemical Dependency as a disease and the Alcoholics Anonymous (12-Step) model of recovery process
- Specific knowledge of family, vocational, legal, cultural and other sociological problems associated with chemical dependency to include dual diagnosis
- Specific knowledge of individual and group counseling theories and techniques
- Ability to work with a multidisciplinary staff
- Specific knowledge of another addictive behavior and how to apply the 12-Step and chemical dependency treatment models to those additions
- Ability to demonstrate discretion and judgment; must conform to confidentiality guidelines
- Customer service orientation
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
Clear criminal history