Co-Occurring Counselor

Position Summary:

The Integrated Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders team provides treatment services to individuals with mental illness and substance use disorders. Functions include attending daily team meetings, and attending treatment planning meeting. Provide clinical services to individuals enrolled in ITCD services. Participate as an active member of multi-service center leadership team. The Integrated Treatment Specialist will provide and include individual, group, couples and family counseling/therapy, individual skills training, medication training, crisis intervention, linkage to community resources, advocacy, assessment, and treatment planning to adult consumers with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders.

Ensure program fidelity with national model. Participate in on-call rotation.

General Responsibilities:

1. Functions in accordance with the policies of state and federal regulation, and within his/her professional code of ethics.

2. Within limits of experience, educational background, and center time commitments, presents in public forums educational materials to promote community understanding of mental health and enhance community response to mental health problems.

3. According to Center policies, participates in staffing of person served to identify problems and establish goals and objectives for treatment and assumes management responsibilities for cases assigned.

4. Participates in and contributes to the various staff development activities of the center.

5. Is sensitive to the responsible to management needs, such as data collection, program evaluation, development of grant applications, maintenance of contracts for services, etc.

6. Participates in all required meetings.

7. Responsive to all Corporate Compliance and Quality Assurance procedures, cooperates with utilization review procedures, and follows established procedures, rules and regulations of the clinical records department.

8. Completes all documentation in a timely manner and in ordinance with agency, state and federal regulations.

9. Identify the treatment services consumers should receive on severity of substance use diagnosis, stage of change and immediate needs and recommend treatment objectives for the consumer's service plan.

10. Establish the degree risk for substance use and associated harmful behaviors, and interventions required to promote progress towards recovery.

11. Participate in daily meetings around substance use issues and incorporate findings into service plans.

12. Build in review and evaluation points, and modifies the service plan into service plans in the light of feedback from recipients and relevant others.

13. Develop comprehensive collaborative service plans and 6-month service plan reviews with the consumer and consumer's support system.

14. Involve social supports in the consumer's treatment with the PHASES team.

15. Complete crisis intervention and relapse prevention plans, progress notes and significant data.

16. Provide individual mental health, relapse prevention, harm reduction and substance use counseling based on motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral responses to mental illness and substance use.

17. Work effectively with community housing providers, education and vocational training providers, and self-help groups providing services to PHASES consumers. Link consumers to self-help recovery groups.

18. Complete expected minimum monthly treatment contacts each month.

19. Provide supports to consumer to address needs for problem-solving, wellness self-management, housing, income support, education and vocational training, social supports, employment, and primary care.

20. Act as advocate and liaison for consumers in securing emergency detox and habilitation care, and other community supports that supports that promote integrated dual disorder treatment.

21. Evaluate on a continuing basis, ITCDT services and expected outcomes.

22. Provide 24-hour crisis intervention on-call services on rotating basis.

23. Provide treatment contacts in the office and in the community.

Minimum Education , Training and Experience

A licensed (or provisionally licensed) QMHP with…