Substance Abuse Technician - FTAB
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove duplicated lines.
We need to parse the posting.
Title: Substance Abuse Technician - FTAB Department Behavioral Health Location: 5901 ZUNI RD SE Pay Range $18.60 - $26.50 Close Date October 6, 2026
Then paragraph: Employees at Bernalillo County enjoy the ability to team up... benefits etc.
Then "The Substance Abuse Technician provides support to individuals requiring social, behavioral health, or substance abuse assistance. Maintains accurate documentation, supports program operations across various settings, and stays informed on best practices in community health, harm reduction, and rehabilitation services."
Then "FUNCTIONAL AREA SUBSTANCE ABUSE The Substance Abuse Technician provides professional-level support in the treatment and rehabilitation of individuals struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. This position delivers detoxification services, facilitates therapeutic activities, and monitors client progress in accordance with treatment plans. The technician works directly with clients and collaborates with a multidisciplinary team to support recovery, education, and reintegration into the community."
Then "Duties And Responsibilities FUNCTIONAL AREA SUBSTANCE ABUSE ..." list of duties.
Then "Minimum Qualifications ..."
Then "SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION PREFERENCES SUBSTANCE ABUSE Experience as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) or Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) preferred."
Then "SCREENING AND COMPLIANCE ..." many items.
Then "WORKING CONDITIONS SUBSTANCE ABUSE ..."
Then "EQUIPMENT, TOOLS, AND MATERIALS SUBSTANCE ABUSE ..."
We need to map to sections: About the role (maybe the introductory paragraph about role), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (minimum qualifications?), Qualifications (maybe supplemental preferences?), Skills (maybe not explicit), Benefits (benefits paragraph), Pay (pay range), Schedule (maybe not explicit). We must only include sections if posting has real specific content.
We have Pay Range: $18.60 - $26.50 -> Pay section.
We have Benefits: paragraph about generous leave accruals; career development opportunities; remote & flex-work options; longevity pay; education assistance program; health benefits; lucrative retirement; etc. So Benefits section.
Schedule: Not explicitly mentioned. There's mention of "May be required to work different shifts and program reassignments. May be required to work mandated overtime as needed." That's schedule info. Could be considered schedule. The posting includes shift work and overtime. That is schedule-related. So we can include Schedule section with that info.
About the role: Could be the paragraph describing role: "The Substance Abuse Technician provides support to individuals requiring social, behavioral health, or substance abuse assistance. Maintains accurate documentation, supports program operations across various settings, and stays informed on best practices in community health, harm reduction, and rehabilitation services." Also the functional area description. Could combine.
Responsibilities: The list under Duties And Responsibilities.
Requirements: Minimum Qualifications (High School Diploma or GED, two years experience, etc.)
Qualifications: Supplemental preferences (CNA/EMT preferred) maybe also screening and compliance? But screening and compliance are more like requirements? Could be part of Requirements or separate. But we have limited sections; we can put screening and compliance under Requirements or Qualifications. Since we have both Requirements and Qualifications sections, we can put minimum qualifications under Requirements, and supplemental preferences under Qualifications.
Skills: Not explicitly listed; maybe we can omit Skills section if no specific content.
Schedule: shift work, mandated overtime.
Now we need to output HTML fragment with headings and - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include each duty item as list items, each benefit as list items, each requirement as list items, each qualification preference as list items, schedule items as list items maybe.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Also not include Job ID etc.
We must remove boilerplate: duplicated lines, cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, application instructions. There's no explicit EEO etc. There's some duplicated lines like "FUNCTIONAL AREA SUBSTANCE ABUSE" appears multiple times; we should not repeat headings but we can keep content.
We need to ensure we don't include placeholders like "commensurate with experience" etc. Not present.
Now craft HTML.
Structure:
About the role
The Substance Abuse Technician provides support to individuals requiring social, behavioral health, or substance abuse assistance. Maintains accurate documentation, supports program operations across various settings, and stays informed on best practices in community health, harm reduction, and rehabilitation services. The Substance Abuse Technician provides professional-level support in the treatment and rehabilitation of individuals struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. This position delivers detoxification services, facilitates therapeutic activities, and monitors client progress in accordance with treatment plans. The technician works directly with clients and collaborates with a multidisciplinary team to support recovery, education, and reintegration into the community.
That's prose.
Responsibilities
- Obtains relevant information about clients through interview, assessment and case history
- Assists and supports clients through addiction detoxification and recovery
- Observes, intervenes, and reports client adherence to program goals and objectives
- Works in conjunction with other department staff to administer scheduled program curriculum and other activities utilized for treatment and rehabilitation of substance abuse
- Gathers and researches data utilized to track the reliability and validity of treatment that has been provided; makes recommendations regarding modification of services and service delivery
- Processes new clients, i.e., issuance of clothing, orientation to the rules of facilities and assists clients with daily activities, events, and informational literature
- Provides education to individuals and groups in the community and facilitates group presentations and workshops
- Transports clients to appointments and other service locations outside of assigned program
- Maintains progress notes and documents on behavioral incidents through observation of clients and maintains confidential records
- Participates in reviews of job performance and adheres to recommended measures for change
- Receives guidance and training from Program Supervisor within the division
- Maintains current knowledge base on counseling issues regarding substance abuse through conferences, educational training and networking with other agencies or groups
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned or required
- Incumbent(s) in this classification may handle sensitive and/or confidential records, plans, documents or decisions that require maintaining confidentiality of sensitive information
Note: The sentence "The above information is intended to outline the general nature and scope of the duties required for this position. It is not an exhaustive list and may vary depending on specific job assignments and responsibilities." is boilerplate? It's a generic disclaimer; maybe we should remove as it's not substantive detail? It's more like a note. The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. This is a generic disclaimer; might be considered boilerplate? It's not about the job itself but about the list. I'd consider it boilerplate and remove. We'll omit.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or GED
- Two (2) years of work experience involving substance abuse, healthcare, law enforcement, emergency management, or corrections
- Any equivalent combination of related education and/or experience may be considered for the above requirements
But also screening and compliance items could be considered requirements. However we have Qualifications section for preferences; maybe we put screening/compliance under Requirements as well? But we already have Requirements; we could add another list under Requirements for screening/compliance. However we must not invent sections; we can have multiple under same heading? The instruction: Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. It doesn't forbid multiple lists under same heading. So we can add another
for screening/compliance under Requirements.
But we also have Qualifications section for supplemental preferences. Let's do:
Qualifications
- Experience as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) or Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) preferred
Now screening and compliance: maybe we put under Requirements as additional list.
Add after the minimum qualifications list another with items:
- Successful completion of a post-offer employment medical examination and background investigation
- Adherence to all County safety guidelines
- Complete all FEMA training(s) assigned to this position
- Possession of a valid New Mexico driver’s license by the date of hire and maintenance of a valid license while employed in this position
- Complete required supervisor training, if applicable
- Pursuant to the criminal history screening for Caregivers Act, Section 29-17-1 through Section 29-17-5 NMSA 1978, new hires at the MATS facility will be required to complete caregiver criminal history screening for all caregivers. Conviction of a disqualifying condition is cause for termination or sufficient reason not to hire if applicant has a disqualifying condition on their record at time of application
- Employee may be required to work different shifts and program reassignments
- May be required to work mandated overtime as needed
- This job profile is classified as safety-sensitive. Employees with safety-sensitive job profiles are subject to pre-employment, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, return-to-duty, and random drug & alcohol testing in accordance with the organization’s Drug and Alcohol Testing Policy
But note: some of these are more like working conditions or schedule. The shift work and overtime we already plan to put under Schedule. The safety-sensitive testing maybe also under Requirements or Schedule? Could be under Requirements as it's a condition of employment. We'll keep.
Now Benefits section:
Benefits
- Generous leave accruals
- Career development opportunities
- Remote & flex-work options as appropriate
- Longevity pay
- Education assistance program
- Health benefits
- Lucrative retirement
We could also include "and so much more" but that's vague; better not include placeholder.
Now Pay section:
Pay
$18.60 - $26.50
Now Schedule section:
We have shift work, mandated overtime. Also maybe mention indoor work? That's working conditions not schedule. We'll put schedule items.
Schedule
- May be required to work different shifts and program reassignments
- May be required to work mandated overtime as needed
Now Working Conditions and Equipment sections: Not among allowed headings; we could omit because not in list of allowed headings. The instruction: use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It implies we should only use those headings. So we should not create headings for Working Conditions or Equipment. We must incorporate that info somewhere else if substantive. The working conditions description: "Essential job duties are performed indoors in climate-controlled environment. Indoor work surface is even
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include each duty item as list items, each benefit as list items, each requirement as list items, each qualification preference as list items, schedule items as list items maybe. We must not repeat job title as heading. Also not include Job ID etc. We must remove boilerplate: duplicated lines, cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, application instructions. There's no explicit EEO etc. There's some duplicated lines like "FUNCTIONAL AREA SUBSTANCE ABUSE" appears multiple times; we should not repeat headings but we can keep content. We need to ensure we don't include placeholders like "commensurate with experience" etc. Not present. Now craft HTML. Structure:
About the role
The Substance Abuse Technician provides support to individuals requiring social, behavioral health, or substance abuse assistance. Maintains accurate documentation, supports program operations across various settings, and stays informed on best practices in community health, harm reduction, and rehabilitation services. The Substance Abuse Technician provides professional-level support in the treatment and rehabilitation of individuals struggling with drug and alcohol addiction. This position delivers detoxification services, facilitates therapeutic activities, and monitors client progress in accordance with treatment plans. The technician works directly with clients and collaborates with a multidisciplinary team to support recovery, education, and reintegration into the community.
That's prose.Responsibilities
- Obtains relevant information about clients through interview, assessment and case history
- Assists and supports clients through addiction detoxification and recovery
- Observes, intervenes, and reports client adherence to program goals and objectives
- Works in conjunction with other department staff to administer scheduled program curriculum and other activities utilized for treatment and rehabilitation of substance abuse
- Gathers and researches data utilized to track the reliability and validity of treatment that has been provided; makes recommendations regarding modification of services and service delivery
- Processes new clients, i.e., issuance of clothing, orientation to the rules of facilities and assists clients with daily activities, events, and informational literature
- Provides education to individuals and groups in the community and facilitates group presentations and workshops
- Transports clients to appointments and other service locations outside of assigned program
- Maintains progress notes and documents on behavioral incidents through observation of clients and maintains confidential records
- Participates in reviews of job performance and adheres to recommended measures for change
- Receives guidance and training from Program Supervisor within the division
- Maintains current knowledge base on counseling issues regarding substance abuse through conferences, educational training and networking with other agencies or groups
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned or required
- Incumbent(s) in this classification may handle sensitive and/or confidential records, plans, documents or decisions that require maintaining confidentiality of sensitive information
Requirements
- High School Diploma or GED
- Two (2) years of work experience involving substance abuse, healthcare, law enforcement, emergency management, or corrections
- Any equivalent combination of related education and/or experience may be considered for the above requirements
- under same heading? The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. It doesn't forbid multiple lists under same heading. So we can add another
- for screening/compliance under Requirements.
But we also have Qualifications section for supplemental preferences. Let's do:
- Experience as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) or Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) preferred
- Successful completion of a post-offer employment medical examination and background investigation
- Adherence to all County safety guidelines
- Complete all FEMA training(s) assigned to this position
- Possession of a valid New Mexico driver’s license by the date of hire and maintenance of a valid license while employed in this position
- Complete required supervisor training, if applicable
- Pursuant to the criminal history screening for Caregivers Act, Section 29-17-1 through Section 29-17-5 NMSA 1978, new hires at the MATS facility will be required to complete caregiver criminal history screening for all caregivers. Conviction of a disqualifying condition is cause for termination or sufficient reason not to hire if applicant has a disqualifying condition on their record at time of application
- Employee may be required to work different shifts and program reassignments
- May be required to work mandated overtime as needed
- This job profile is classified as safety-sensitive. Employees with safety-sensitive job profiles are subject to pre-employment, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, return-to-duty, and random drug & alcohol testing in accordance with the organization’s Drug and Alcohol Testing Policy But note: some of these are more like working conditions or schedule. The shift work and overtime we already plan to put under Schedule. The safety-sensitive testing maybe also under Requirements or Schedule? Could be under Requirements as it's a condition of employment. We'll keep. Now Benefits section:
- Generous leave accruals
- Career development opportunities
- Remote & flex-work options as appropriate
- Longevity pay
- Education assistance program
- Health benefits
- Lucrative retirement
- May be required to work different shifts and program reassignments
- May be required to work mandated overtime as needed
Qualifications
- with items:
Benefits
Pay
$18.60 - $26.50
Now Schedule section: We have shift work, mandated overtime. Also maybe mention indoor work? That's working conditions not schedule. We'll put schedule items.Schedule
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It implies we should only use those headings. So we should not create headings for Working Conditions or Equipment. We must incorporate that info somewhere else if substantive. The working conditions description: "Essential job duties are performed indoors in climate-controlled environment. Indoor work surface is even