Certified Addiction Counselor

Working with a team of counselors, nurses, therapists, and case managers, you will provide services to adult clients in the community focusing on aspects of substance abuse and other mental health issues.

About the role

ACT is an Evidence Based Practice that is person-centered, recovery-oriented, and a highly intensive community-based service for individuals who have serious and persistent mental illness. The service utilizes a multidisciplinary mental health team, including Psychiatrists, Nurses, Social Workers/Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, Employment Specialists, Certified Peer Specialists, and Case Managers. The ACT Team works as one organizational unit providing community-based interventions that are rehabilitative, intensive, integrated, and stage specific. Services emphasize social inclusiveness through relationship building and the active involvement in assisting individuals to achieve a stable and structured lifestyle.

ACT is a unique treatment model in which the majority of mental health services are directly provided by the ACT program in the recipient’s natural environment. ACT services are individually tailored with each individual to address his/her preferences and identified goals, which are the basis of the Individualized Recovery Plan.

Responsibilities

• Conduct initial and ongoing assessments of client strengths, substance abuse, mental health treatment needs, and biopsychosocial histories
• Meet with clients regularly to provide individual and group substance abuse counseling
• Apply intervention techniques and crisis assessments
• Link clients to community resources such as AA as needed

Requirements

• CAC-I, CAC-II, GCADC-I, CADC, CADC-T or CCIT certification
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Understanding of and sensitivity to serving the culturally diverse and dual diagnosed mental health population
• Valid Georgia Driver’s License
• Clean Motor Vehicle Record (MVR)
• Clean Criminal Background Check (no conviction or credible evidence of abuse, neglect, or sexual exploitation)

Schedule

8:30am–5:00pm, weekdays

Benefits

• Paid vacation days that increase with tenure
• Separate sick leave that rolls over each year
• Up to 10 paid holidays
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefit plan options
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health, Dependent and Transportation Flexible Spending Accounts
• Employee, Spouse and Dependent Basic and Optional Life Insurance
• 401K
• Free licensure supervision
• Employee Assistance program
• Pet Insurance
• National discounts on shopping, travel, Verizon, and entertainment (Perks @Clarvida)
• Mileage reimbursement
• Company cellphone
• Bonus opportunities for exceeding billable service delivery

Benefits may vary based on Position/State/County.