Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist- Associate

RHA Health Services, LLC; North Carolina; On-site; USD 54,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payactiv

Health insurance

Paid time off

401(k)

Wellbeing programs

Training

Job summary

RHA Health Services is hiring a Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist to provide direct behavioral health care to individuals with co-occurring disorders. The role requires active North Carolina licensure and involves coordinating with an interdisciplinary team to deliver comprehensive services.

The position focuses on individual, family, and group therapy, discharge planning, and collaboration with families, guardians, and community resources.

Qualifications

• Licensed clinician with experience treating co-occurring disorders.
• Ability to collaborate with psychiatry, nursing, and social services.
• Strong assessment and treatment planning skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with the interdisciplinary team to support service users.
• Lead individual, family and group outpatient therapy sessions.
• Develop person-centered treatment plans and oversee discharge planning.
• Facilitate engagement with families, social resources, and community supports.
• Demonstrate strong therapeutic communications within a team.
• Utilize behavioral interviewing to identify needs.

Skills

Clinical counseling

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Behavioral health assessment

Education

LCAS

LCAS-A

CADC

Job description

We are hiring for: Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist

Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist- Associate Type: Credentialed

If you are a positive and personable individual looking for a satisfying and fun opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of people with intellectual, developmental disabilities, and people facing mental health, and substance use challenges, join our team at RHA Health Services! The position of Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist calls for a licensed professional clinician with direct experience and skill in treating a range of behavioral health issues. The position requires an individual who is able to treat and be successfully at assessing and treating co-occurring disorders including mental illness, personality disorders, and challenges in primary or secondary support systems. The position of Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist includes active engagement and coordination of care with internal resources including psychiatry and community support as well as external bodies including the legal system, families, and social support agencies. The position may call for back-up to the program director and or other therapists as needed. The position requires the individual to be an active and positive member of the clinical team. Based on setting, special skills and/or work with specific populations will be required. Relies on knowledge, experience, and judgment to provide quality services with very little supervision and direction. Must be an individual that holds a license issued by the governing board regulating a human service profession. Some services may require additional experience, licensure, or education.

Pay: $54,000-$62,000

Job Responsibilities

• Coordinates closely with the interdisciplinary team to best help service users, including behavioral health specialists, registered nurses, quality assurance specialists, paraprofessionals and the Clinical Director.
• Running individual, family and group outpatient therapy sessions.
• Developing person-centered plans with individuals.
• Oversee the discharge planning process.
• Facilitating relationships between RHA, service user families/legal guardians and various social service community resources, such as food stamp and housing assistance, healthcare, job training and placement and substance abuse support groups.
• Excellent communicator and listener with strong therapeutic skills who works well as part of an interdisciplinary team and runs open and productive therapy sessions.
• Excel at behavioral interviewing techniques to uncover service user needs and be able to anticipate these needs.

Job Requirements

• Valid licensure to provide mental/behavioral healthcare in the state of North Carolina
• License include: LCAS, LCAS-A, CADC in North Carolina
• Clinical supervision is provided.
• Minimum 2 years experience working with individuals with mental and/or behavioral health issues
• Valid driver’s license, auto insurance and reliable transportation
• Ability to pass a drug screen and background check
• Pre-employment screening: Complete criminal background Name checked in the registries. (OIG exclusions database, Child Abuse Registry, and Offenders Against Individuals with Developmental Disabilities) Drug testing
• Education verification and other credentialing based on position requirements.
• Proof of employment history or references (if required)
• Positions that require driving Proof of driver’s license, driver’s insurance, and vehicle, IF required for providing transportation for individuals.

Benefits

• Payactiv: early access to the money you’ve earned from hours you’ve already worked, before payday!
• Employee perks and discount program: to help you save money!
• Paid Time Off (full-time employees only)
• Health/Insurance (full-time employees only)
• 401(k) retirement savings program
• Wellbeing Programs: Physical, Emotional and Financial Chronic Disease management programs for hypertension and diabetes (for qualifying employees)
• Training: Free CPR, first aid, and job-specific training opportunities
• *contract/contingent workers and interns do not qualify for any of the above benefits

EEO Statement

RHA is an equal opportunity employer. In addition, we provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application process, please contact our solutions center.

About RHA

At RHA Health Services, we help individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, mental health and/or substance use needs live their best lives. Our mission is to provide a safe and healthy environment while creating opportunities for personal outcomes. For over 30 years, the people we serve and support have remained at the very center of everything we do. RHA currently provides services in North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and New Jersey.

Throughout Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee, we provide high-quality care to individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities. In North Carolina and Pennsylvania, we also provide behavioral health services to support people with mental health and substance use needs and provide services for those who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Since 1989, we have partnered with and celebrated people achieving their personal goals, building meaningful connections, experiencing positive outcomes in health and wellness, and more. If you share our passion, there is a place for you at RHA Health Services. From inpatient care to community-based services, from in-home support to facilities of all sizes, RHA offers a range of settings where you can apply your unique skillset. Many of our employees also experience opportunities for career growth and continued education. RHA is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities and the Council on Quality and Leadership, and we are committed to providing the highest quality of care. At RHA, we believe we all deserve the chance to live our best possible lives. We want you to join our team of compassionate professionals.

RHA Health Services – Where Compassion Meets Career.