Co-Occurring Counselor

Peoples Health Centers Inc; Missouri; Sur place; USD 42 000 - 58 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Peoples Health Centers Inc. seeks a Co-Occurring Counselor in Saint Louis, MO. The role involves delivering integrated treatment for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, including individual and group counseling and crisis intervention.

Responsibilities include treatment planning, collaboration with the PHASES team, and ensuring program fidelity to national models. A QMHP with relevant credentials is required, with on-going trainings and supervision as needed.

Qualifications

• Licensed QMHP with 1 year full-time experience in substance use treatment.
• If less than 1 year IT experience, must complete 24 hours of IT training and receive supervision.
• Credentials such as CCDP, CCDP-D, CCJP, CADC, CRADC, CRAADC, RSAP-P or related certifications are recognized.

Responsabilités

• Provide individual, group, couples and family counseling/therapy.
• Attend daily ITCD team meetings and treatment planning meetings.
• Develop and monitor service plans, crisis intervention, and linkage to community resources.

Connaissances

Counseling

Substance use treatment

Crisis intervention

Formation

QMHP license (Missouri)

1 year substance use treatment experience

Description du poste

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Co-Occurring Counselor

Full Time 40 Hours Weekly Saint Louis, MO, US

30+ days ago Requisition ID: 1060

Position Summary:

The Integrated Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders team provides treatment services to individuals with mental illness and substance use disorders. Functions include attending daily team meetings, and attending treatment planning meeting. Provide clinical services to individuals enrolled in ITCD services. Participate as an active member of multi-service center leadership team. The Integrated Treatment Specialist will provide and include individual, group, couples and family counseling/therapy, individual skills training, medication training, crisis intervention, linkage to community resources, advocacy, assessment, and treatment planning to adult consumers with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders. Ensure program fidelity with national model. Participate in on-call rotation.

General Responsibilities:

1. Functions in accordance with the policies of state and federal regulation, and within his/her professional code of ethics.

2. Within limits of experience, educational background, and center time commitments, presents in public forums educational materials to promote community understanding of mental health and enhance community response to mental health problems.

3. According to Center policies, participates in staffing of person served to identify problems and establish goals and objectives for treatment and assumes management responsibilities for cases assigned.

4. Participates in and contributes to the various staff development activities of the center.

5. Is sensitive to the responsible to management needs, such as data collection, program evaluation, development of grant applications, maintenance of contracts for services, etc.

6. Participates in all required meetings.

7. Responsive to all Corporate Compliance and Quality Assurance procedures, cooperates with utilization review procedures, and follows established procedures, rules and regulations of the clinical records department.

8. Completes all documentation in a timely manner and in ordinance with agency, state and federal regulations.

9. Identify the treatment services consumers should receive on severity of substance use diagnosis, stage of change and immediate needs and recommend treatment objectives for the consumer’s service plan.

10. Establish the degree risk for substance use and associated harmful behaviors, and interventions required to promote progress towards recovery.

11. Participate in daily meetings around substance use issues and incorporate findings into service plans.

12. Build in review and evaluation points, and modifies the service plan into service plans in the light of feedback from recipients and relevant others.

13. Develop comprehensive collaborative service plans and 6-month service plan reviews with the consumer and consumer’s support system.

14. Involve social supports in the consumer’s treatment with the PHASES team.

15. Complete crisis intervention and relapse prevention plans, progress notes and significant data.

16. Provide individual mental health, relapse prevention, harm reduction and substance use counseling based on motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral responses to mental illness and substance use.

17. Work effectively with community housing providers, education and vocational training providers, and self-help groups providing services to PHASES consumers. Link consumers to self-help recovery groups.

18. Complete expected minimum monthly treatment contacts each month.

19. Provide supports to consumer to address needs for problem-solving, wellness self-management, housing, income support, education and vocational training, social supports, employment, and primary care.

20. Act as advocate and liaison for consumers in securing emergency detox and habilitation care, and other community supports that supports that promote integrated dual disorder treatment.

21. Evaluate on a continuing basis, ITCDT services and expected outcomes.

22. Provide 24-hour crisis intervention on-call services on rotating basis.

23. Provide treatment contacts in the office and in the community.

Minimum Education, Training and Experience

A licensed (or provisionally licensed) QMHP with one year of full time experience in substance use treatment. If an individual has less than one year of experience in Integrated Treatment(IT), they must be actively acquiring 24 hours of training in IT specific content and receive supervision (could be via phone under contract) from experienced IT staff. The 24 hours of training in IDDT specific content can include, but not limited to Co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, motivational interviewing, stage-wise treatment interventions, additions treatment, relapse prevention, cognitive behavioral treatment

OR

A person who is certified or registered (not recognized) as a substance abuse professional by the Missouri Sub-stance Abuse Counselor's Certification Board. Further clarification of credentials included Qualified Substance Abuse Professional Credentials.

CCDP – Co-occurring Disorders Professional

CCDP-D – Co-occurring Disorders Professional-Diplomate

CCJP – Certified Criminal Justice Addictions Professional

CADC – Certified Alcohol Drug Counselor

CRADC – Certified Reciprocal Alcohol Drug Counselor

CRAADC – Certified Reciprocal Advanced Alcohol Drug Counselor

RSAP-P – Registered Substance Abuse Professional – Provisional

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

Shall successful complete CPR, CPI, First Aid training