Addiction Care Manager, Substance Use Disorders

St. Luke’s University Health Network; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 52,000 - 74,000; Full time

Job summary

St. Luke's University Health Network is seeking an Addictions Care Manager to perform assessments, triage, and one-to-one client work within the agency and community partners. The role requires strong clinical skills in AOD services and the ability to coordinate care across levels of treatment.

Responsibilities include home visits, client meetings, drug screening, and ensuring authorization and billing for services. A valid driver's license and DDAP-aligned credentials are preferred.

Qualifications

• Meets PA DDAP requirements for Counselor.
• Bachelor's/Associate degree or DDAP certifications.
• Clinical experience in addiction services is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide Level I interventions for high-risk clients and families.
• Conduct clinical assessments and determine appropriate levels of care.
• Triages clients to outpatient, MES, MH, and other services.
• Provide one-to-one time, urine drug screens, and treatment interventions as needed.
• Handle related administrative tasks and ensure services are authorized and billed.

Skills

Clinical assessments

Urine drug screens

Case management

Education

Associate's or Bachelor's degree

DDAP certifications (Certified Recovery Specialist / Certified Family Recovery Specialist / Certified Addictions Counselor)

Job description

St. Luke's is proud of the skills, experience and compassion of its employees. The employees of St. Luke's are our most valuable asset! Individually and together, our employees are dedicated to satisfying the mission of our organization which is an unwavering commitment to excellence as we care for the sick and injured; educate physicians, nurses and other health care providers; and improve access to care in the communities we serve, regardless of a patient's ability to pay for health care.

Hours: Full-Time, 40 hours/week The Addictions Care Manager provides assessments and one-to-one client time and performs triage work for clients to all levels of care-both within the agency and outside agencies.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides Level I interventions with high risks clients and families that include home visits, phone interventions, family meetings, and formal clinical assessments
• Provides clinical level of care assessments. Meets with client and/or families in a professional, thorough and timely fashion gathering bio-psycho-social information and then determining the appropriate level of care through the use of the PCPC.
• Triages clients/families that require services (outpatient, MES, MH) in a timely and organized fashion.
• Provides one-to-one time with clients-assessing clinical progress, administering urine drug screens and treatment intervention when needed.
• Provides clinically related tasks such as correspondence, completion of manage care forms, and works in assuring services are authorized and client financial responsibilities are addressed.

PHYSICAL AND SENSORY REQUIREMENTS:

• Must have ability to sit for 2 total hours per day, and up to 1 total consecutive hour.
• Must be able to stand for 8 total hours per day and up to 2 total consecutive hours.
• Must be able to walk 6 total hours per day and up to 10 total consecutive minutes.
• Must have the ability to frequently use fingers/hands for fingering and handling.
• Must have the ability to use upper extremities for frequent pushing of objects up to 10 pounds and occasional pushing of objects up to 75 lbs.
• Must have the ability to transport patients weighing up to 250 lbs. via wheelchair, stretcher and/or bed.
• Must have the ability for frequent stooping and bending.
• Must have the ability for frequent reaching above shoulder level.
• Must have the ability for touching as it relates to feeling objects by touching with the skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Must have the ability for hearing as it relates to normal conversation, high frequency and low frequency hearing sounds.
• Must have the ability for seeing as it relates to general vision, near vision, color vision and peripheral vision.

EDUCATION:

• Meets the PA Department of Drug & Alcohol Program (DDAP) requirements for the position of Counselor, has an associate’s degree, bachelor's degree, or possesses one of the following certifications: Certified Recovery Specialist, Certified Family Recovery Specialist, Certified Associate Addictions Counselor

TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:

• Clinical experience in the provision of AOD clinical services
• Must possess and maintain a valid driver’s license along with a driving record in compliance with St. Luke’s Penn Foundation policy.

St. Luke's University Health Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network of more than 23,000 employees providing services at 16 campuses and 350+ outpatient sites. With annual net revenue in excess of $4 billion, the Network’s service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. St. Luke’s hospitals operate the largest network of trauma centers in Pennsylvania, with the Bethlehem Campus being home to St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital. SLUHN is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare’s five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. It is both a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World’s Best Hospital. The Network’s flagship University Hospital has earned the 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation from Premier 13 times total and eleven years in a row, including in 2023 when it was identified as THE #4 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY. In 2021, St. Luke’s was identified as one of the 15 Top Health Systems nationally. St. Luke’s is the ONLY health care institution in the Lehigh Valley to be named a Top Workplace regionally repeating the exclusive honor for the third year in a row. Also, for the third straight year, St. Luke’s has been a Top Workplaces in the Philadelphia Region by the Philadelphia Inquirer, ranking 9th in the large employer category for 2025 and the only health care system in PA to receive this award. In 2025, St. Luke’s was recognized as a national Top Workplaces by USA Today, three years in a row, including the 3rd best health care system in the nation in 2023 and 2024. Lastly, in 2025, St. Luke’s was named a Top Workplace in New Jersey for the third year in a row. Learn More Here.