FACT Substance Use Specialist (Masters) Leon

Apalachee Center, Inc. provides comprehensive behavioral health services across eight North Florida counties (Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor, and Wakulla). The organization is dedicated to helping individuals and families recover from emotional, psychiatric, and substance‑abuse crises.

Overview

Florida Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) is a dynamic multidisciplinary treatment team delivering intensive community‑based support to severely mentally ill adults. The FACT Substance Abuse Specialist serves as the primary provider for clients with current or historical substance‑use issues, provides cross‑training to team members, and participates in after‑hours on‑call crisis response as scheduled.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Assessment: Conduct comprehensive mental‑health and substance‑abuse assessments, collect collateral information with appropriate consent, complete initial assessments within 60 days, update assessments per established guidelines, and finalize all documentation in Avatar within 48 hours.
• Individualized Treatment Team (ITT): Schedule ITT meetings a month in advance of service‑plan expiration, provide input on client progress, employment goals, and treatment response, and review service‑plan effectiveness.
• Substance Abuse Specialist Services Delivery: Provide individual, group, and family services in office and community settings; engage clients, conduct substance‑abuse assessments, develop treatment plans aimed at reduction and abstinence, address co‑occurring disorders, make referrals to detox, residential, and self‑help programs (e.g., AA/NA), coach stress management, coping strategies, healthy relationships, relapse prevention, and deliver both individual and group therapy.
• Case Management Services: Offer benefits counseling, problem‑solving, skill training, supervision, assistance with activities of daily living, nutrition education, meal planning, grocery shopping, food preparation, housing support, household tasks, financial assistance, money‑management teaching, transportation coordination, and ensure clients have access to personal physicians and dentists.
• Client Service Plan (CSP): Develop individualized CSPs with clients (and guardians when applicable), set measurable goals and time frames, implement and monitor the plan, update CSPs at least every six months, and modify plans promptly in response to changes in mental status or risk (e.g., suicidality, hospitalization, relapse).
• Progress Notes: Document service delivery in Avatar within 48 hours, ensuring notes clearly link staff efforts to service‑plan goals and reflect client progress or lack thereof.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Basic life insurance
• Long‑term disability
• Paid time off
• Additional competitive benefits for full‑time positions