Blount Re-Entry Residential Counselors

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Join the McNabb Center Team as the Blount Re-Entry Residential Counselor today!

• The Blount County Transition Campus Residential Counselor will act as a member of a multi-disciplinary team, providing administrative and direct service to clients within an adult residential co‑occurring treatment facility.
• This position must be able to initiate and maintain professional and clinical relationships and interact appropriately with a team of health practitioners.

• The Residential Counselor in Blount County serves as a counselor that provides case coordination using a social model of recovery, trauma‑informed, client‑centered approach to a predetermined number of adults.
• The Residential Counselor is responsible for assisting clients with their substance use treatment in a non‑threatening, comfortable and supportive setting.
• The Residential Counselor carries a case load of 18 clients varying residential levels of care and helps them to learn the tools of recovery through group and individual sessions.
• Clients are given individualized treatment plans and are assessed to see what they need to gain the most out of treatment and are offered further care by referring them to aftercare options.
• This position requires utilizing a personal dependable vehicle to conduct Center business as well as driving company vehicle with clients. Maintaining a dependable vehicle and certified driver status is a condition of employment.

This position will work in a residential treatment center for adults who suffer from co‑occurring substance use and mental health disorders, providing residential co‑occurring treatment. The program operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

1. Assess and evaluate each client on their caseload.

• Complete all admission paperwork in Centricity within required time frames on each client assigned to caseload.

2. Complete all documentation in compliance with CARF and funding standards.

• Completes progress notes and other documentation daily in the EMR according to licensure and funding source standards.
• Completes assessments assigned by Program Coordinator and finishes assessment the same day.
• Completes all discharge paperwork and if applicable closes charts within 48 hours of client’s discharge.
• Staff will complete assigned daily tasks in EMR.
• Participates in monthly peer review to evaluate peers charts to make sure they are in accordance with CARF standards.

3. Provides quality clinical care for the duration of client’s stay in treatment.

• Meet weekly with each client assigned to their caseload for counseling session to offer support and encouragement towards completion of the residential re‑entry program and document each session in Centricity.
• Develop an aftercare plan that meets the client needs to prevent future relapse from mental health and/or co‑occurring disorders.
• Enforces program rules daily and implements consequences as evidenced by consequences being documented on daily shift and progress notes.
• Facilitate group activities and educational groups daily or as per assignment to enhance the client’s knowledge of chemical dependency and the process of recovery.

4. Direct client supervision with daily milieu routine.

• Assists staff in monitoring the psychosocial and behavioral symptoms of clients daily as documented in progress notes.
• Adheres to daily schedule and…