Community Support Team- Substance Use Counselor

Community Support Team
- Substance Use Counselor

and the job listing Expires on September 19, 2026

Summary: The primary responsibilities of this role are to assist and support individuals who are served in the development of skills, behaviors, responsibilities, and supports needed to live, learn, work, and be integrated into the community with the greatest possible degree of self-determination and independence. The primary responsibilities of the Community Support Team services are to assist and support individuals who are served in the development of skills, behaviors, responsibilities, and supports needed to live, learn, work, and be integrated into the community with the most significant possible degree of self-determination and independence.

The team approach involves structured, face-to-face therapeutic interventions that assist in re-establishing the beneficiary’s community roles related to the following life domains: emotional, behavioral, social, safety, housing, medical and health, educational, vocational, and legal. This team service includes a variety of interventions that are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The service is designed to provide: (1) symptom stability by reducing presenting psychiatric or substance use disorder symptoms;

(2) restoration interventions for the development of interpersonal, community, coping, and independent living skills; (3) psychoeducation; (4) first responder intervention to de-escalate a crisis; and (5) service coordination and ensure linkage to community services and resources.

Program Responsibilities:

• Familiarity with community mental health resources.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Provide service coordination for individuals with mental health and substance abuse issues and is responsible for developing, with the other team members, the overall service plan.
• Provide education and training on mental illness, SUDS, relapse identification, prevention, and the promotion of recovery.
• Implement interventions that are evidence-based practices demonstrating effectiveness in working with individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
• Implement harm reduction practices and programs that address the adverse effects of drug use including overdose, HIV, hepatitis C, addiction, and incarceration.
• Complete assessments
• Assist in the development of natural support networks. Individual and group supportive counseling, monitoring of symptoms and medications, linking the individual supported to the appropriate services, agencies and supports in the community, monitoring their development of appropriate behaviors in his/her home and other community settings, teaching the individual supported skills necessary for independent community living and facilitating them in the practice and transfer of these skills to his/her environment, providing support to his/her family.
• Facilitate access to community resources, including locating recreational activities, housing, food, clothing, school programs, vocational opportunities or services, other providers needed for mental health, developmental disabilities and substance abuse services; assist individual receiving services to develop relationships within their community.
• Monitor utilization of services and ensure agency provides services consistent with authorization for each individual supported. Prepare reports for team leader in order to clearly communicate progress or lack of progress, and involvement in treatment to aid the team leader in the authorization process.
• Drive and travel extensively to community locations, various agencies, and other outreach destinations. Provide and/or arrange for transportation for people supported as required.
• Assume…