SOCIAL WORK/COUNSELOR II - Substance Use Disorder - FCF

About the role

This position provides substance use disorder services to the inmate population, to include formal and informal behavioral health evaluations, diagnostic assessments, and clinical interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provides substance use and co-occurring disorder treatment services under clinical supervision
• Collaborates with other mental health professionals to ensure co-occurring issues
• Serves as consultant for unit staff regarding assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning
• Maintains accurate Information System behavioral health needs levels, and provides group, brief, and individual treatment
• Monitors inmate treatment and documentation to assure compliance with standards and continuity of care
• Communicates directly with inmates regarding their behavioral health care such as consequences of maladaptive behavior and desired and undesirable effects of prescribed behavioral health medication
• Provides crisis intervention in conjunction with clinical standards regarding mental health professional privilege level
• Documents both handwritten and electronically in an accurate and timely manner to provide comprehensive inmate behavioral health records
• Communicates to advise, counsel, inform and/or guide staff within the clinical unit, the facility, clinical and administrative supervisors and outside agencies to ensure continuity and direction of behavioral health care
• Communicates and responds to complaints, problems, transfers, classifications, and inmate behavioral management issues
• Maintains standards of the program or work unit through compliance with all applicable professional, departmental, organizational and unit standards
• Promotes and is accountable for the safety and security of the clinical and correctional environment through conscientious observations, and sensitive item contraband control

Requirements

Education/Licensure/Certification/Experience: Applicant must possess a current, valid license from the State of Colorado as: A Licensed Addiction Counselor (LAC) or Addiction Counselor Candidate (ADDC) OR Applicant must possess a certification as a Certified Addiction Specialist (CAT) and a license as Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT), Licensed Clinical Social Worker (CSW), or Licensed Psychologist (PSY).

Qualifications

• Ability to provide direct behavioral health care to inmates
• Ability to provide comprehensive clinical documentation
• Ability to work independently
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across facility programs and with external stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Maintain certification/licensure as an addiction counselor
• Ability to work with a diverse population of inmates
• Strong organizing, planning and prioritizing skills
• Keen ability to multi-task and demonstrate flexibility
• Ability to provide addiction counseling as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to be creative when implementing therapeutic interventions
• Ability to read and comprehend the English language
• Ability to effectively communicate fluently in English both verbally and in writing
• Ability to create accessible documents and technical content that follows plain language guidelines with accessibility in mind
• Self-control, a strong sense of ability to work in stressful, potentially violent situations
• Tolerance to stress, confinement, and high-stakes interaction
• Experience providing addiction treatment to an incarcerated population
• Experience providing addiction treatment to a diverse population
• Experience working with highly resistive clients
• Experience administering multidimensional substance use assessments
• Experience providing addiction counseling in an inpatient and outpatient setting

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience providing addiction treatment to an incarcerated population
• Experience providing addiction treatment to a diverse population
• Experience working with highly resistive clients
• Experience administering multidimensional substance use assessments
• Experience providing addiction counseling in an inpatient and outpatient setting

Benefits

Includes distinctive career advancement opportunities throughout the state system; strong, secure, yet flexible retirement benefits including PERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Plan plus 401K and 457 plans; member contribution rates; correctional officers qualify as "Safety Officers" and are eligible for increased PERA benefits; medical and dental health plans; short and long term disability coverage; paid life insurance; 11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave; wellness program, tuition reimbursement, training opportunities and more.