Substance Abuse Counselor – ACT Team Non Exempt

Make a Difference in Someone’s Life!

At Monarch, we work together to provide life-changing care in communities across North Carolina and Rhode Island. As a team, we provide hope, promote wellness, and empower individuals and families impacted by mental illness, substance use disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and traumatic brain injury.

You deserve a positive and encouraging work environment - a place where you can do your best work and grow as a professional. That is just what you’ll find e, we care for people, including our team members. We offer a comprehensive, competitive benefits package that supports full-time and part-time team members and their families. More than just a job, this opportunity with Monarch will give you room to spread your wings and grow because we believe in promoting from within and developing future leaders.

Starting Pay: from $23.00/hour

Sign On Bonus: $1,000 ($500 at 30 days of employment; $500 at 6 months of employment)

ACTT Substance Abuse Professional I, Non-Exempt must be considered a Qualified Professional and have one of the following qualifications:

• Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor (CADC)
• Associate or Fully Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist (LCAS-A/LCAS)

A Qualified Professional (10A NCAC 27G .0104) must have one of the following:

• Bachelor degree (non Human Services) with 4 years Full time OR 8 years Part time applicable experience required
• Bachelor degree (Human Services) with 2 years Full time OR 4 years Part time applicable experience required
• Master degree (Human Services) with 1 year Full time OR 2 years Part time applicable experience required

The primary responsibilities of the Assertive Community Treatment Team Substance Abuse Professional 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.

• Provide service coordination for individual with mental health and substance abuse issues and be responsible for developing, with the other team members, the overall service plan.
• Assist in the development of natural support networks; provide individual and group supportive counseling, monitor symptoms and medications, link the individual supported to the appropriate services, agencies and supports in the community, monitor their development of appropriate behaviors in his/her home and other community settings, teach the individual supported skills necessary for independent community living and facilitate them in the practice and transfer of these skills to his/her environment, provide support to his/her family.
• Assume responsibility for writing, implementing, evaluating, and revising Person Centered Plan and overall treatment goals and service plans that are based on evaluations and recommendations from assessments by various professionals and input from the individual supported.
• Function as a member of a multi-disciplinary team to develop and implement treatment goals.
• Facilitate training of independent living skills, establish access to community services and agencies, assist individuals in establishing support networks in the community and assess individual needs on a daily basis.
• Coordinate services with the program, staff, inpatient facilities, and detoxification facilities and establish linkage to residential programs, self-help programs and community resources.
• Review treatment progress and monitor and provide continuous consultation with other Assertive Community Treatment Team staff and community agencies to ensure the consistent therapeutic management of the individual’s needs.
• Act as liaison with the program after hours staff on a daily basis through exchange of participant information; briefly detailing the presenting problem and after hours plans for the individuals being served by the Assertive Community Treatment Team.
• Meet regularly with the other Assertive Community Treatment Team members to formulate and disseminate information and be available by telephone…