Counselor, Mental Health, Healthcare
Listed on 2025-12-02
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Healthcare
Mental Health, Substance Abuse Counselor
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About Casa Esperanza
Casa Esperanza, Inc. is a bilingual/bicultural behavioral health treatment provider serving Boston and the Merrimack Valley. Our mission is to empower individuals and families to recover from addiction, trauma, mental illness, and other chronic medical conditions; overcome homelessness and discrimination; and achieve health and wellness through comprehensive, integrated care.
About Casa Esperanza
Casa Esperanza, Inc. is a bilingual/bicultural behavioral health treatment provider serving Boston and the Merrimack Valley. Our mission is to empower individuals and families to recover from addiction, trauma, mental illness, and other chronic medical conditions; overcome homelessness and discrimination; and achieve health and wellness through comprehensive, integrated care.
About
The Role
The Conexiones (ATS/CSS) includes education and counseling regarding the nature of addiction, relapse prevention, and aftercare for clients with mental health, substance use, or dual diagnosis issues.
As part of the Casa Esperanza, Inc. integrated care team, the ATS/CSS Counselor provides services in a fully integrated, holistic, and collaborative manner using a team-treatment approach to ensure the coordination of all client services, both across Casa programs and with external providers. This integrated model aims to facilitate clear communication amongst all providers and eliminate duplication of efforts or conflicting approaches to care;
follow-up and assignments and ensure wrap-around support services are in place to maximize treatment effectiveness and clinical outcomes.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities
- Greet new clients and create a welcome, comfortable atmosphere for them
- Establishes orientation, session and follow up appointments with patient
- Acts as primary counselor and point of contact for both internal and external collaborators
- Provide high quality, compassionate care in a culturally responsive manner
- Completes a needs assessment including risk and safety planning
- Ensures evidence-based practices are appropriate per patient diagnosis and assessed needs
- Maintains and adheres to all confidentiality and HIPAA 42 CFR laws
- Communicates professionally and effectively with colleagues, collateral contacts, supervisors, etc. regarding client care, both verbally and in written formats
- Complete assessments utilizing the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) criteria to make clinical recommendations regarding appropriate levels of treatment
- Conduct substance use screening and overdose assessment
- Interviews clients, reviews records, and confers with other professionals to evaluate the condition of the client.
- Completes a comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment of the client
- Shares responsibility for therapeutic, educational, and other group programming
- Facilitate clinical sessions, discuss relevant issues, and prepare a treatment plan in consultation with the resident
- Facilitate a variety of groups ranging from relapse prevention to other evidence-based topics regarding health and wellness in recovery
- Participates in care management for patient needs, including case management and referral services
- Provides client education around symptom management in an individual and group setting
- Completes intake enrollment as needed
- Counsels clients individually and/or in family and in group sessions to assist clients in achieving treatment goals under the direction of the Clinical Supervisor
- Prepares and maintains reports and case histories in accordance with agency guidelines for format, timeliness, and quality assurance
- Enter client data into paper and electronic records in a timely manner as outlined in program policies
- Maintains all regulatory and licensing guidelines around clinical workflows
- Manages client crises and de-escalation techniques in a holistic, trauma-informed approach
- Respond promptly to client needs
- Completes extension authorizations and clinical reviews with insurance and payers
- Complete discharge notes and client disenrollment forms to close cases upon client discharge
- Attend staff meetings and supervision sessions
- Participates in multidisciplinary team meetings
- Acts as liaison and advocate for patient needs
- Maintains milieu management and comprehensive clinical interventions in crisis response.
- All other related duties as assigned
- Substance Abuse Counseling Certificate Program or a bachelor's degree in psychology, social work, or a related field and experience in substance use treatment (required)
- CAC, CADC, LADC, or LADC-II (required)
- Bilingual English/Spanish (preferred)
- Minimum of 5 years working in a substance use therapy program
- Must demonstrate ability to relate to a substance use treatment population in a sensitive manner and an interest and willingness to work in a multicultural setting
- Have a sense of compassion,…
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