Senior Addiction Counselor - Level 1

NYC Health + Hospitals / Bellevue is America's oldest public hospital, established in 1736. Affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine, the 844-bed hospital is a major referral center for highly complex cases, with its 6,000 employees including highly skilled, interdisciplinary clinical staff.

It sees more than 110,000 emergency room visits and 500,000 outpatient visits annually. Bellevue is an academic medical institution of international renown.

We have served as an incubator for major innovations in public health, medical science, and medical education. Bellevue is a Level I Trauma Center delivering around-the-clock care in adult, pediatric, psychiatric and pediatric psychiatric emergencies as well as in the nationally-designated categories of cardiology, neurology, toxicology, and neonatology.

In addition to providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient state-of-the-art care Bellevue is a city-wide medical specialty referral source.

Bellevue's clinical centers of excellence include : Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care; Cardiovascular Services; Designated Regional Perinatal Center and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (ICU);

Comprehensive Children's Psychiatric Emergency Program; and Cancer Services.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Job Description

Under supervision and as members of interdisciplinary teams, Addiction Counselors work with patient in a substance treatment program / service on site at the hospital or in the community.

• Provide screening and assessing patients in need of addiction or detoxification treatment.
• Interviewing and providing counseling to patients in need of / seeking addiction treatment or detoxification treatment.
• Develop biopsychosocial histories of patients to identify and isolate potential SUD and other specific patient problems.
• Identifying specific psychosocial problems impacting patients' ability to assess treatment, providing assistance in obtaining entitlements.
• Participating in development of SUD treatment and discharge plans.
• Conducting supportive groups and community meetings as indicated.
• Makes decisions and maintains required records regarding appropriate level of care (using patient criteria tools and patient placement criterion systems as needed), to ensure that a patient in need of addiction treatment / services is places in the most clinically appropriate level of care.
• Upon discharge, referring patients for rehabilitation programs and other treatment modalities.
• Appropriate professional conduct at all times (see sw departmental professional conduct policy) towards patients, families, visitors, and co-workers, with courtesy, respect, sensitivity to social-cultural and age -related issues, along with awareness of privacy and confidentiality requirements.
• Complete required documentation in timely fashion, according to assigned area requirements and in professional manner (see documentation policy).
• Develops and monitors treatment / recovery plans in collaboration with patients and members of the interdisciplinary team, including establishment of short term and long-term goals, objectives, and specific interventions.
• Participates in the evaluation of treatment progress and monitoring of patient's recovery plans; prepare and maintains confidential case records in relation to treatment goals and objectives.
• Coordinates and provides care management services and activities that integrate supportive services, agency, professional and / or community resources in a planned framework of action, which address a patient's mental, physical, and / or behavioral needs in order to achieve the patient's established goals.
• Acts as a liaison and advises staff of patient needs with regard to job training, housing, and education programs; may advise patient on job, education, or substance treatment programs.
• Conducts outreach activities.

Minimum Qualifications

Any individual working in a NYS Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS)-Certified Treatment Program or newly-hired into the System in the title of Addiction Program Administrator in a NYC Health + Hospitals health care setting must have proof of completion of OASAS "Supporting Recovery with Medications for Addiction Treatment (MAT)" training.

For Assignment to Level I

1. Valid Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC) - Level 2 Certificate issued by the NYS Office of Addiction Services and Supports (OASAS); or

2. Is otherwise considered a Qualified Health Professional (QHP) based on licensure, certification and / or registration along with appropriate experience and / or training as defined in Section 800.

4 (U) of the OASAS Treatment Services : General Provisions, Title 14 NYCRR Part 800 ().

NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes :

• Comprehensive Health Benefits for employees hired to work 20+ hrs. per week
• Retirement Savings and Pension Plans
• Loan Forgiveness Programs for eligible employees
• Paid Holidays and Vacation in accordance with employees' Collectively bargained contracts
• College tuition discounts and professional development opportunities
• Multiple employee discounts programs
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