Professional II, Adolescent SUD Counselor; 340

Professional II, Adolescent SUD Counselor; 340

Pay Competitive

Location : Cleveland, Ohio

Employment type : Other

Job Description

Req# : 878

The Centers seeks 3 Adolescent Substance Use Disorder Counselors to support our growing teams. The first Substance Use Disorder Counselor is a member of our SUD Team and will provide confidential counseling, education, and support to individuals and families experiencing substance use disorders, and for promoting health lifestyles and healthy choices to individuals, families, and the community. The other Substance Use Disorder Counselor is a member of our new CCBHC Team and will provide integrated dual diagnosis disorder treatment to clients who have substance use concerns. The SUD Counselor is responsible for providing confidential counseling, education, and support to individuals and families experiencing substance use disorders, and for promoting health lifestyles and healthy choices to individuals, families, and the community. Provide a range of prevention, assessment, and intervention services. Provide training and consultation to team members on problems, assessments, and recommendations for clients. Use IDDT treatment and Motivational Interviewing techniques.

About The Centers & Circle Health Services

The Centers & Circle Health Services are one of the oldest and largest health and human services organizations in Northeast Ohio, serving more than 30,000 people across Northeast Ohio each year. Together, the organizations are leading the way in providing an innovative and integrated model towards a common goal : creating life-changing solutions for those we serve to lead healthier and more successful lives. Utilizing a progressive, interdisciplinary team approach which includes psychiatry, primary care, pharmacy and more, offers our staff a unique opportunity to be an integral part of the health & wellness team, consisting of psychiatrists, family physicians, nurse practitioners, clinical pharmacists and social workers.

Job Qualifications

• Requires at least one of the following licenses through Ohio board of Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist (CSWMFT) or Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board :
• LCDC-II, LSW, LCDC-III, LPC, LICDC, LISW, LPCC
• Must possess a high degree of initiative, orientation toward process improvement, and demonstrated leadership qualities.
• Must have experience in monitoring outcomes data and performance indicators.
• Must possess computer proficiency and proficiency working in an EMR.
• Must understand and embrace a systems approach to service delivery, as well as, organizational mission, program philosophy, goals, and organizational values.

The Benefits

Providing quality benefits to our staff is important to us. Just as important is our staff's well-being. That's why we offer a number of choices from medical to dental to vision plans to meet the different needs of our staff. We support our staff's financial well-being by providing employer paid long-term disability, a very competitive defined contribution towards retirement and access to a financial advisor when you need it. We have nutrition and fitness coaches available for consultation. Want to go back to school? We can help you with that. Looking for continuing education? We do that too. We also have a generous time off program as well as other benefits we can share with you based on your individual interests. We are a National Health Service Corps site. You may be eligible to receive substantial assistance towards paying off your student loan debt. To learn more visit here

Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities

Core Competencies

demonstrated emotional intelligence with an ability to balance an empathy forward response with families and throughout the organization. Enjoys working closely with other people to understand their concerns and seeks out the ways our workplace might address them. Able to use storytelling to advance a concept or idea.

Confidence, articulation, ability to receive criticism and feedback well, ability to resolve conflicts.

Organizes work, effectively prioritizes, and sets short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them. Aligns communication, people, processes and resources to drive success. Organizes information and data to identify / explain trends, problems, and their causes.

Contributes to common goal, maintains open communication with team members, asks for help when necessary, encourages involvement.

Self-aware, attentive listener, people-oriented, cognizant of bias, cultural intelligence; demonstrating a respect for divergent viewpoints; an awareness of and sensitivity to the cultural diversity of the population served, thereby contributing to an environment that is equitable, inclusive, and cooperative.

Adapts effectively to change by accepting changes in processes readily and with an optimistic perspective of the resulting benefits; readily accepts new technology as part of his / her job and uses it to continually improve efficiency or the quality of his / her work products.

Physical Demands / Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment and the community. This role routinely uses standard office equipment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak and hear. The employee is frequently required to sit for extended periods of time, stand, walk, use hands and fingers, and reach with hands and arms. It requires the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary.

This job description is not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties or skills required for the job and is subject to review and change at any time, with or without notice, in accordance with the needs of The Centers. Since no position description can detail all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time in the performance of a job, duties and responsibilities that may be inherent in a job, reasonably required for its performance, or required due to the changing nature of the job shall also be considered part of the jobholder's responsibility.

The Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Other details

Our Vision - Through innovation and leadership we strengthen the community by providing individuals and families with life-changing solutions to lead healthier and more successful lives.

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