ACT Substance Abuse Counselor

$1000 Hiring Bonus

• 8:30am-5:00pm weekday schedule
• Supportive team environment
• Bonus opportunities for exceeding billable service delivery, up to $300/pay period
• Licensure supervision and exam reimbursement
• Stability and growth opportunities working with a national agency

• 7 Paid Vacation days that increase with tenure each year to a max of 5 weeks
• Separate Paid Sick leave that rolls over each year
• 9 Paid Holidays
• Medical, Dental, Vision plan options
• 401 K Plan
• Pet Insurance
• Mileage reimbursement
• Work cellphone and laptop
• Financial Wellness program webinars and tools
• Dell Discounts
• Verizon discount
• Employee Assistance Program
• Perks @ Pathways (movie, shopping, hotel, concert and sporting event discounts)
• Opportunities for advancement in our national company! As we grow, you grow with us!

Working with a team of counselors, nurses, therapists, and case managers, you will provide services to adult clients in the community focusing on aspects of substance abuse and other mental health issues. You will conduct initial and ongoing assessments of client strengths, substance abuse, mental health treatment needs, and biopsychosocial histories. You will meet with clients regularly to provide individual and group SA counseling, intervention techniques, and crisis assessments, and link clients to community resources such as AA as needed.

ACT is an Evidence Based Practice that is person‑centered, recovery‑oriented, and a highly intensive community‑based service for individuals who have serious and persistent mental illness. The service utilizes a multidisciplinary mental health team, including Psychiatrists, Nurses, Social Workers/Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, Employment Specialists, Certified Peer Specialists, and Case Managers. The ACT Team works as one organizational unit providing community‑based interventions that are rehabilitative, intensive, integrated, and stage specific.

Services emphasize social inclusiveness through relationship building and the active involvement in assisting individuals to achieve a stable and structured lifestyle. ACT is a unique treatment model in which the majority of mental health services are directly provided by the ACT program in the recipient’s natural environment. ACT services are individually tailored with each individual to address his/her preferences and identified goals, which are the basis of the Individualized Recovery Plan.

• CAC-I, CAC-II, GCADC-I, CADC, CADC‑T or CCIT
• Communicate effectively in writing and orally
• Have an understanding of and sensitivity to serving the culturally diverse and dual diagnosed mental health population
• Valid Georgia Driver’s License, clean Motor Vehicle Record (MVR)
• Clean Criminal Background Check (no conviction or credible evidence of abuse, neglect, or sexual exploitation)

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Pathways is an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.