Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist

Substance Abuse Comprehensive Outpatient Treatment (SACOT) Counselor

Substance Abuse Comprehensive Outpatient Treatment (SACOT) Counselors provide activities and services that are provided at an outpatient program designed to assist adult and adolescent consumers to begin recovery and learn skills for recovery maintenance.

Service Delivery

• Assist persons served by implementing structured interventions outlined in the Person-Centered Plan in any of the following:
• Individual counseling and support.
• Group counseling and support.
• Family counseling, training or support.
• Biochemical assays to identify recent drug use (e.g. urine drug screens).
• Strategies for relapse prevention to include community and social support systems in treatment.
• Life skills.
• Crisis contingency planning.
• Disease Management: and treatment support activities that have been adapted or specifically designed for persons with physical disabilities, or persons with co-occurring disorders of mental illness and substance abuse/dependence or mental retardation/developmental disability and substance abuse/dependence.
• Provide first responder crisis response.
• Ensure a supportive, therapeutic relationship between staff, persons served, and family of the persons served which addresses and/or implements interventions outlined in the Person-Centered Plan.
• Provide principles of recovery to persons served by emphasizing self-determination.
• Assist persons served by researching and making available natural and community supports.
• Support the persons served in understanding and exercising their rights.
• Provide support services in a manner that is safe, therapeutic, and free from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
• Ensure that all information resulting from health-related appointments is documented.

Case Management Functions (If assigned and monitored by Program Director)

• Facilitation of the Person Centered Planning process, including the recipient and people identified as important in the recipient's life (e.g., family, friends, providers) by the initial development and ongoing revision of Person Centered Plan including completion of all required documentation for opening cases, including but not limited admission assessments, development of updates to Person Centered Plans (PCPs), crisis plans, information card/face sheet, copy of current Medicaid card (as applicable), ITRs, arranging for clinical assessments and other ongoing assessments as necessary, completing NCTOPPS scores (if applicable), and service notes within applicable timelines
• Submit ongoing requests for authorizations, ITRs and all other required information to appropriate local management entity or state contractor
• Supportive counseling to address the diagnostic and clinical needs of the recipient
• Case management to arrange, link or integrate multiple services as well as assessment and reassessment of the recipient's need for services. Inform the recipient about benefits, community resources, and services; assists the recipient in accessing benefits and services; arranges for the recipient to receive benefits and services; and monitors the provision of services.
• Coordination with the recipient's medical home (e.g., primary care physician)
• Plan and facilitate consumer transitions to other services and/or local agencies in an efficient manner
• Submit completed discharge date to the Medical Records Specialist for processing and filing

Quality Assurance and Improvement

• Assure consistent provision of quality services to consumers
• Implement the PCP to assure that services are being provided in a manner that is professional, effective, and consistent with governing rules, statutes, service definitions, and the PCP
• Assure that case management, supervision, and service notes are being completed in a manner consistent with Federal, State, and the Agency's, statutes, rules, and policies and procedures, respectively
• Submit service data to the Program Director for billing verification, filing, and submission to the Home Office, as applicable
• Conduct routine follow-up with service recipients, family members, and guardians regarding their satisfaction with service delivery
• Participate in peer review activities of offices as requested
• Communicate ideas on improving services to the CEO.

Communication

• Maintain consistent communication with Program Director regarding documentation, authorizations, consumer progress toward goals, and consumer satisfaction
• Maintain regular contact with persons served their treatment teams, guardian and significant others in persons' lives

Requirements

Qualifications:

• The minimum requirement for this position is a valid NC license as a:
  Certified Clinical Supervisor (CCS); or Licensed Clinical Drug and Alcohol Counselor Associate (LDAC-A)
• Certified Drug and Alcohol Counselor (CDAC)
• Qualified Substance Abuse Professionals as defined by NC G.S. Chapter 90-113.31A (26) and NCAC 10A 27 G. 0104(19)(a)

Preferred Experience

• One or more years of case management experience or equivalent work experience
• Experience with and knowledge of…