Master's Level Intern – SUD Case Manager 2 (2026–2027 Academic Year)

About the role

Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services offers a one-year Master’s Level Internship Program for students in Counseling, Psychology, and Social Work.

Responsibilities

• Assesses and prioritizes client treatment needs including discharge needs.
• Implements plan of care and collaborates with the clinical team to assure a uniform plan of care.
• Provides individual, group, and family therapy or interventions; psychosocial assessment, including assessment of co-occurring disorders.
• Provides input to the interdisciplinary treatment plan, functioning as a team member.
• Establishes therapeutic relationship with assigned clients including engaging, deescalating, screening, and managing crises.
• Serves as a liaison between community resources, family, client, and clinic-based providers of care.
• Monitors for and reports to the manager, attending physician, or appropriate team leader any potential risk to client safety that could lead to an adverse outcome.
• Documents and reports all necessary information according to established policies and procedures.
• Utilizes processes to conserve financial resources.
• Creates a customer/client friendly environment by following quality improvement standards, maintaining professionalism, initiating and maintaining positive relationships with departments, co-workers and external customers.
• Works in various clinical settings with diverse client populations with complex needs.
• Maintains annual training and/or licensing and demonstrates competency in the required programmatic training.

Requirements

• Be enrolled in a Master’s degree program in counseling, psychology, or social work.

Qualifications

• Education/Experience: Be enrolled in a Master’s degree program in counseling, psychology, or social work.

Skills

• Excellent customer service skills.
• Enthusiasm about the program and the Pine Rest organization.
• Dedication to excellent customer service.
• Motivation by the healing witnessed each day.
• Dedicated to fostering a sense of belonging and empowerment in a diverse workplace.

Benefits

• Supervised clinical hours structured to meet graduate program requirements.
• Progressive learning model that supports skill development from observation to greater clinical independence.
• Diverse clinical exposure across multiple levels of care and specialty populations.
• Interdisciplinary team experience within a large, well-established behavioral health system.
• Strong preparation for post-graduate practice, licensure, and early career success.
• A supportive learning environment focused on ethical, person-centered, and recovery-oriented care.

Pay

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Schedule

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