Substance Use Counselor; CADC​/LCADC)

If you want to make a living by making a difference, join Acenda as an Counselor Non-Exempt Take your substance-use expertise beyond the traditional treatment setting. Acenda's Program for Assertive Community Treatment (PACT) is seeking a CADC/LCADC to serve as the team's co-occurring disorders specialist, helping adults with serious mental illness and substance use challenges build stability, independence and recovery in their own communities.

You'll work alongside psychiatry, nursing, behavioral health clinicians, peer specialists and other members of an interdisciplinary team—bringing specialized substance-use expertise to treatment planning and providing individualized support to people whose needs often cannot be addressed effectively in a traditional office-based setting.

• Become the team's subject-matter expert in substance use and co-occurring disorders.
• Work as part of a highly collaborative interdisciplinary clinical team.
• Build meaningful, longer‑term relationships with individuals in recovery.
• Deliver care in real-world community settings—not exclusively from an office or group room.
• Use motivational interviewing, harm-reduction/recovery principles, relapse‑prevention strategies and evidence-based co-occurring treatment.
• Expand your expertise in serious mental illness and integrated behavioral healthcare.
• Receive training and professional development in the evidence-based PACT model.

• Provide individual co-occurring sessions to consumers through symptom assessment, management, and supportive counseling, as well as assistance to the consumer regarding Wellness Recovery Action Plans (WRAP), and/or other crisis planning tools.
• Support medication delivery and collaboration with PACT team to provide long term support to the consumer.
• Assess consumer’s concerns, mental illness symptoms, and behavior in response to medication and monitor side effects during ongoing face to face contacts.
• Attend daily morning meetings to address consumer and program needs.
• Be available to provide crisis assessment and intervention 24 hours per day, seven days per week, including telephone and face-to‑face contact as needed; on call responsibilities shared between PACT team.
• Utilization of evident based tools including psycho-education, social skills training, cognitive-behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, and relapse prevention planning;
• Completes and submits accurate reports and chart documentation in a complete and timely manner according to program guidelines and established procedures.
• Meets obligations of the program (contractual, licensing, Medicaid, etc.).
• Operates conscientiously in accordance with program budget (i.e., use of client engaging funds, office supplies).
• Complete PACT Training and Technical Assistance Initiative.
• Performs other related duties as assigned and per PACT Regulations and program manual.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• A bachelor's degree in a behavioral health field and have a minimum of two years of experience providing dual disorder services to individuals with co-occurring serious and persistent mental illness and substance abuse.
• A dual disorder specialist shall hold the professional credentials required by the Alcohol and Drug Counselor Licensing and Certification Act.
• Must have and maintain a valid driver's license with an acceptable driving record.
• Must be able to exercise independent thinking and good judgment under all circumstances.
• Must be able to analyze work, set goals, develop plans and utilize time effectively and efficiently.

Base Rate: $50K - 55K; depending on certification/license
Sign-on Bonus: $1,000
Bilingual Rate:
An additional $1.50…