Substance Abuse Counselor - Clarvida
Anaheim, CA 92801
About the Job
Description
Welcome to Clarvida of California’s career website! If you are passionate about helping others and enthusiastic about your future, we want you to join our team!
Our company is known for an unwavering commitment to exceptional value and recovery-focused, quality care. We are experts in the field of behavioral health care, providing cutting-edge mental health and substance use community-based services and offer a dynamic employment experience! Pathways offers competitive salaries and benefits, comprehensive on-boarding and job training, a supportive learning environment, ongoing education in the use of evidence-based, promising practices and much more!
We are well-known in the field and have been a preferred provider in the Southern California region for over 20 years partnering with local government agencies and managed care companies to offer personalized, integrated care to community members of all ages, ethnicities, and cultural backgrounds. You will find that we have several openings ranging from administrative to clinical positions in a variety of service areas and settings in Southern California. Join one of our Pathways companies, Clarvida Community Services (PCS) and/or College Community Services (CCS) and experience it for yourself!
We have over 30 outpatient behavioral health locations nestled throughout our communities located in Kern County, Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Diego County.
The practice of a certified substance abuse counselor consists of the Twelve Core Functions, including screening, intake, orientation, assessment, treatment planning, counseling, case management, crisis intervention, client education, report and record keeping, consultation with other professionals regarding client treatment and services, and referral to treat addictive disorder or disease and to help prevent relapse.
About the Program:
Opportunity Knocks is a full service partnership (FSP) treating adults struggling with severe mental health disorders along with a current/recent legal history and are at risk of being homeless or currently homeless.
Duties/Responsibilities: - Provides individual, family and group counseling to adults and adolescents with substance abuse problems
- Determines causal relationship between substance addiction, socio-economic factors and personality traits
- Designs and implements treatment plans identifying goals to be achieved
- Coordinates with other treatment team members when specialized services required
- Works cooperatively with community agencies in the coordination of rehabilitation services for clients
- Counsels family members of clients to provide emotional support and provide information
- Reviews case records and refers clients to medical or psychiatric services as appropriate
- Leads client group utilizing accepted therapy mode, group therapy techniques and basic skills training
- Participates in utilization review activities
- Transport clients to accommodate community relationships. Use of personal car or vehicle is required
- Monthly Productivity requirement is 100 hours.
- Maintain and ensures HIPAA, ethical standards and professional boundaries with all staff and clients
- Participates in the evaluation of counseling methods for the effective treatment of substance abuse related problems
- Prepares correspondence and reports as required
- Properly documents client’s progress on charts
- Assists in coordinating and synchronizing substance abuse and service plan issues
- Meets with clinicians to report observations and reactions to clients and to review clients progress
- Other duties as assigned or necessary to support the program and/or the company.
Recovery Requirements
- Provide the best customer care possible.
- Identify and build upon the strengths of consumers, coworkers, and the communities we serve.
- Support consumers’ steps towards Recovery and Wellness.
- Create an organizational culture that respects and celebrates the diversity of our consumers.
- Value learning as an ongoing process that enables us to better service our consumers and establishes our leadership in the industry.
- Research and utilize our industry’s best practices and analyze our own services to ensure the best possible outcomes
Required Licenses or Certifications required for Position:
- Valid California driver’s license with a safe driving record.
- College level courses related to treatment of chemical dependency required and A.A. degree preferred
- Requires a current Certified Alcohol Drug Counselor or is completing the required hours for certification.
Skills and Abilities in:
- Using effective time management skills to complete required job duties
- Effective interpersonal communication skills
- Effective and timely documentation skills
- Establishing effective clinical relationships with clients and families
- Maintaining appropriate boundaries with clients, families, collaterals and other professionals
- Establishing and maintaining professional working relationships with staff and collaterals in community agencies, medical practices & facilities, etc.
NOW OFFERING DAILY PAY TO OUR EMPLOYEES
Competitive salaries & benefits
• Paid Vacation Days (1st year 12 days; increases with tenure)
• Paid Sick Days (Accrual per pay period)
• 9 Paid Holidays (including Day after Thanksgiving)
• Medical, Dental, Vision including a Health Savings Account or FSA
• Health, Dependent and Transportation Flexible Spending Accounts
• Basic and Optional Life Insurance for Employee, Spouse and/or Dependents
• 401K
Perks @ Clarvida (student loan refinancing, pet insurance, Verizon wireless discount, movie, hotel, concert and sporting event discounts)
We encourage job seekers to be vigilant against fraudulent recruitment activities that are on the rise across the healthcare industry. Communication about legitimate Clarvida job opportunities will only come from an authorized Clarvida.com email address or a personal LinkedIn account that is associated with a Clarvida.com email address. Clarvida recruiters will never charge application fees, conduct interviews via chat rooms, or extend job offers without a thorough recruitment process.
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