Certified Addictions Counselor

Pathways To Housing Dc Dsc; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental & Vision Insurance

15 days of vacation to start

11 paid holidays

401k Match

Employer-sponsored HSA

Employee Assistance Program

Short Term Disability

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Pathways to Housing DC is an innovative agency in Washington, DC. The Addictions Counselor supports the ACT team, delivering outreach, counseling, and recovery services to clients with housing instability and co-occurring disorders.

The role emphasizes harm reduction, flexible field work, and coordinated care with psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, and peers to help clients stay housed and progress toward recovery.

Qualifications

• DC licensure as a Certified Addiction Specialist.
• Minimum of one year experience in social services, supported housing, or with persons with disabilities.
• Excellent communication, writing, and computer skills.
• Bilingual English/Spanish a plus.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with client in formulating an Individual Recovery Plan (IRP) reviewed with client regularly.
• Provide outreach, case management, counseling, advocacy, and services in various environments (streets, shelters, jails, hospitals, apartments, office).
• Provide tailored services in housing, school, training & work opportunities, daily living activities, health, wellness, and relapse prevention.
• Maintain records and documentation (progress notes, incident reports, on-call logs, letters).
• Coordinate and monitor referrals to community services and advocate client participation.
• Lead groups, workshops, and in-service meetings on client need topics.
• Spend 80% of time in field/community delivering services to persons with serious mental illnesses.
• Participate in on-call rotation.

Skills

Counseling

Case management

Harm reduction

Bilingual English/Spanish

Communication/writing

Education

DC Licensure as a Certified Addiction Specialist

Job description

Job Description

Job Description

Pathways to Housing DC is an innovative agency based in the heart of Washington, D.C. We believe that housing is a basic human right, and that without housing people are unable to address their mental health disorders, addictions, and other life stressors. We provide each person entering our program their own apartment, without requiring treatment compliance or sobriety as a prerequisite. We then provide each person with intensive support services to help them stay housed and begin their journey to recovery.The Addictions Counselor works on the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team in collaboration with Psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, and peers, provides services for substance abuse and addiction treatment support to clients in a compassionate and responsible manner. Integrated dual disorder treatment is provided using a harm reduction approach. Interventions include both group and individual therapy, relapse prevention, and education.Successful Addictions Counselors are flexible and patience, work well in a fast-paced environment, and are independent thinkers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with client in the formulation of an Individual Recovery Plan (IRP) that is reviewed and modified with client on a regular basis
• Provide outreach, case management, counseling, advocacy, and other needed services to clients in any environment including: the streets, shelters, jails, hospitals, apartments, office, etc., 80% of contact with clients is conducted in the field
• Provide individually tailored services to each client in the following areas: housing, school, training & work opportunities, activities of daily living, health, wellness self-management, relapse prevention, money management & entitlements, medication support, self-help & empowerment, problem solving, family life & social relationships and integrated treatment for substance abuse
• Maintain written and computerized records compile reports and complete other program documentation (e.g., progress notes, incident reports, on-call logs, letters, and psychosocial assessments)
• Coordinate and monitor referrals to community services and advocate client participation
• Lead groups, workshops, and in-service meetings on topics relevant to identified areas of client need
• 80% of time will be spent in the field/community, directly providing services to persons living with serious mental illnesses
• Participate in on-call rotation
• Perform related work as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS

• DC Licensure as a Certified Addiction SpecialistMinimum of one year experience in social services, supported housing, or with persons with disabilities
• Patience, creativity, flexibility, compassion, and sensitivity to persons with disabilities and other minority populations
• Demonstrated knowledge of harm reduction theory/applications
• Excellent communication, writing, and computer skills
• Bilingual English/Spanish a plus
• Driver's license and vehicle required
• COVID-19 vaccination

BENEFITS

• 15daysof vacationtostartplus11paidholidays10 PaidSick/WellnessleaveHealthInsurance(singles,partner,and familycoverage offered),including anemployer sponsored HSAaccount tooffsetthe costof copaysand healthcare servicesDental&VisioninsuranceEmployerpaidLTDPathways' paid lifeinsurance403bMatchEmployerpaidEmployeeAssistanceProgramMany additional employee paid services such as legal coverage, Short Term Disability, and pre-tax commuter benefits