Substance Use Counselor

What You Will Be Doing

• Provide substance use treatment including individual, family and group counseling.
• Perform Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT).
• Provide services that are person/family-centered, strengths-based, recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, and culturally competent.
• Identify the treatment needs of and with participants, based on severity of substance use, stage of change, and immediate needs as well as recommended treatment objectives.
• Engage participants with urgent and crisis substance use needs to offer support and resolve crisis.
• Provide relapse prevention, psychoeducation, and harm reduction using motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
• Run evidence-based substance use treatment and Relapse Prevention groups.
• Act as an advocate and liaison for participants in securing access to MAT, emergency detox, rehabilitation care, and other community supports that promote integrated substance use or dual disorder treatment.
• Dispense Naloxone response kits as an approved NYS dispenser.
• Outreach and network with DCO partners providing crisis stabilization, inpatient/residential detox and rehabilitative treatment centers.
• Contribute to ongoing organizational commitments to diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracist practices in delivery of services and work.
• Provide culturally competent services in accordance with CASES policies and practice.
• Help ensure we maintain a safe working environment by reporting any hazards or unsafe conditions, e.g., liquid spill in hallway, to the appropriate facilities staff member or supervisor.

What We Are Looking For

• Must have active CASAC (Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor) certification status in good standing
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• At least 18 months of work experience providing substance use services to individuals with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorder and criminal justice involvement.
• Individuals with previous criminal justice experience are encouraged to apply.
• Individuals with lived experience are encouraged to apply.
• Fluency in Spanish (preferred)

Employee Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Vacation and Paid Time Off – starting at 25 days-off annually, plus an additional summer self-care day
• 12 Paid Holidays per year
• Retirement 403b Competitive matching up to 6%
• Employee Referral Program