Fee For Service Substance Abuse Counselor (Bilingual Spanish & English)

About the role

Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha (APM) is a nonprofit organization in Philadelphia, PA providing human services to the community including early childhood education, foster care & adoption, child welfare, mental & behavioral health, community and economic development, housing, violence intervention, and services to community schools. We have been helping families achieve their greatest potential since 1970.

Duties and responsibilities

• Provide counseling services to members in Drug & Alcohol program
• Complete Intake, treatment plans, evaluations and discharges on time as prescribed in the policies
• Provide Individual and group therapies consistently and family therapy when needed
• Use ASAM evaluation at the beginning and at every treatment plan sessions
• Complete documentation on time as prescribed in the policies and procedure manual
• Ensure all members provide UDS every week without fail
• Apply for BHSI for clients who don’t have insurance
• Co-ordinate with Septa logistics care for bus passes for members to come to facility
• Co-ordinate with Psychiatrist for evaluations, suboxone prescription for members and case consultations
• Work closely with supervisor and complete required supervision hours and case consultations
• Ensure all documentation and data are complete and in compliance with APM, city, state, and federal regulations
• Makes referrals to appropriate levels of care based on ASAM criteria
• Maintains strong interagency community, multidisciplinary and government agencies relationships
• Maintains ongoing communication with other community treatment facilities, primary care physicians, hospitals, schools, multidisciplinary units, and Probation/Parole officers, the Forensic Intensive Recovery (FIR) unit, etc. as necessary
• Maintains a caseload that supervisor deemed appropriate in your full time position
• Participate in meetings with the agency interdisciplinary team as clinically necessary
• Participate and maintain required CE credits and other mandatory trainings
• Ensure all charts are up to date
• Actively engage in program expansion and development
• Works closely with the Clinical Director and set quarterly targets and achieve them
• Must be able to provide training and supervision if more counselors are hired for DA program
• Provides updated FBI, PA criminal background, child abuse, CPSL and CPR clearances before the start date
• Performs other program related duties as assigned by the Clinical Director.

Skills

• Passion to work with Drug & alcohol population
• Provide genuine care and support for members while maintaining respectful boundaries
• Self-motivated and take proactive steps to develop and expand DA program under the supervision of Director
• Ability to take initiative and collaborate with other resources, agencies, hospitals and judiciary system in the community
• Represent APM Drug & Alcohol program with pride and joy

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in the human services or related field with a minimum of 1-year work experience with clients in a rehabilitation, social services, mental health or related services.
• CAC, CDAC licensed or qualified
• Completed ASAM training
• Trained in Motivational Interviewing
• Bilingual (English/Spanish)
• Proficiency in the DAP documentation
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Word
• Experience in facilitating group therapy
• Working with medication managed populations
• Strong verbal and written communication skills