Substance Abuse Counselor

Job Description

Job Description

Horizons Youth Services is looking for Substance Abuse Counselor for our youth at the Blue Ridge Jo Corps Center!

Job Summary :

The TEAP Specialist (Training and education assistance program) promotes the development of positive social skills and behavior while determining individual / group needs of client(s). The TEAP Specialist conducts / creates programs, seminars, and training for clients as well as treatment and prevention plans. The TEAP Specialist develops and implements Student Employee Assistance Program, which includes assessment, intervention, counseling, relapse prevention, alcohol and drug education.

Duties :

• Provides a minimum of a 1hour interactive presentation on substance use prevention for all new students during the Career Preparation Period and schedules and conducts at least three annual center-wide substance use prevention and education activities.
• Conducts ongoing counseling and support groups to include an introduction to the self-help process for intervention and participates in clinical consultation with Center Director, management staff, Center Mental Health Consultant, and Health and Wellness Manager regarding substance use related prevention and education efforts for students and staff.
• Reviews Social Intake Form (SIF) or intake assessment of all students performed by counseling staff within 1 week of arrival, and collaborates with the Center Mental Health Consultant to determine when medical separation is appropriate and should be recommended for a student with substance use conditions.
• Provides individual and group intervention services with a focus on behaviors that represent employability barriers and develops and monitors student intervention plans and documents progress in student’s health record.
• Solicits input from counselors and Student Personnel Officer to update student intervention plans and behavioral contracts. Ensures that intervention planning guides a student’s expected behavior in all areas of Center life and the student is monitored, as needed, by designated Center staff.
• Collaborates with recreation department to assist in developing leisure time activities and specific incentives to reinforce an alcohol-free and drug-free lifestyle.
• Maintains liaison with community intervention resources.
• Maintains good housekeeping in all areas and complies with safety practices.
• Models, mentors, monitors appropriate Career Success Standards.
• Participates in staff training and performs other duties as assigned within the individual’s scope and capabilities.

Qualifications : To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Experience : One-year experience required.

Education : Bachelors’ Degree with an active, unrestricted substance abuse counselor license and / or certification in accordance with state regulations to practice as an independent practitioner in state where center is located. A waiver may be authorized by DOL subject to a professional development plan.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations : Valid State Drivers’ License, Certified Substance Abuse Counselor

Physical Demands : The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand and walk; to reach with hands and arms and talk and listen. The employee is occasionally required to sit; to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; to taste and to smell. The employee must be able to lift and / or move up to 25 pounds occasionally. Specific vision capabilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and peripheral vision.

Work Environment : The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level can vary from moderate to loud.