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Acceptance Place - SUD Counselor

HEALTHRIGHT 360
place San Francisco, 94154
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Full Time
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Spanish
Experience:
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Dual Diagnosis
Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
Financial Stress/Debt
Medication Management
Stress

About Job

HealthRIGHT 360 gives hope, builds health, and changes lives for people in need by providing comprehensive, integrated, compassionate care that includes primary medical care, mental health services, and substance use disorder treatment.

HealthRIGHT 360 offers residential treatment services designed to serve individuals and families with substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health disorders. Our program helps clients address addiction and related issues, increase skills, manage stressors, connect to supportive service, and build a foundation for lasting recovery. Residential programs run 24/7 and Individual and group therapy, family therapy, individualized case management, treatment planning, drug and alcohol counseling, Medication support services, and crisis intervention.

Benefits And Perks:

  • HR360 offers a robust benefits package, including PTO, 15 paid holidays, commuter benefits, retirement plans, and more!
  • Employees qualify for public loan forgiveness programs
  • Training and professional development opportunities
  • Work with mission driven, compassionate colleagues and make a difference every day in the work that you do.

Acceptance Place is a residential substance use disorder treatment program that serves gay, bisexual, and transgender men (identifying as male). Our program helps clients address addiction and related issues, increase skills, manage stressors, connect to supportive service, and build a foundation for lasting recovery.

This is a union position.

Key Responsibilities

Individual Treatment Responsibilities: Provides learning experience opportunities and offers clinical support to assist clients in meeting their treatment goals. Proactively links clients to both internal and external resources based on their treatment needs and follows up on the progress/status.

Treatment Setting Responsibilities: Facilitates group counseling sessions, community meetings and teaches classes on various treatment-related topics. Performs crisis intervention and communicates with treatment team as unforeseen situations arise. The SUD I will document any client updates and incidents in the facility log daily. Primarily performs periodic house runs to ensure and maintain the safety and security of the facility. When assigned the DOT, documents and accurately distributes client money, ensures client medications are securely stored and properly accounted for and hold facility keys and floater cellular phones. As needed, accompanies clients to offsite appointments related to their treatment. SUD staff will attend required training courses and meetings related to their position. Plans and facilitates client celebrations and special events. May work weekends and holidays as needed.

Documentation Responsibilities: Collaborates with each caseload client and other available internal and external resources to develop/maintain treatment plans, transition plans, progress notes and appropriate updates in support of the health and recovery needs of the client. Properly documents all individual and group counseling sessions in a timely manner. Also, maintains accurate records by data entering documentation into various electronic systems for all caseload clients in accordance with guidelines established by HealthRIGHT 360 to satisfy internal and external evaluating requirements.

And other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education, Certification, and Experience Required:

  • Registration with Drug and Alcohol Certification recognized by DHCS.
  • High School diploma or equivalent

Desired:

  • Drug and Alcohol Certification recognized by DHCS
  • Bachelor’s Degree in related field

Background Clearance:

  • Ability to obtain and maintain satisfactory background check.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain live scan clearance.

Knowledge Required:

  • Culturally competent and able to work with a diverse population.
  • Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, specifically Word
  • Outlook and internet applications.
  • Experience working successfully with issues of substance abuse, mental health, criminal background, and other potential barriers to economic self-sufficiency.

Desired:

  • Knowledge of co-occurring disorders and trauma informed treatment
  • Knowledge of Clinical documentation (treatment plans, progress notes etc.)
  • Experience working with criminal justice population
  • Bilingual (Spanish- speaking)

Must complete background check and livescan clearance.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Professional Field

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Patient Focus

Diagnoses

Avoidant Personality Disorder
Dual Diagnosis
Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders

Issues

Financial Stress/Debt
Medication Management
Stress
Substance Abuse
Trauma

Therapeutic Approach

Methodologies

ECT
Pharmacotherapy

Modalities

Families
Groups
Individuals

Practice Specifics

Populations

Individuals with Addiction Issues
Inmates
Racial Justice Allied

Settings

Residential
In-patient Non-Psychiatric
In-patient Psychiatric
Intense Out-patient (IOP)
Milieu
Nursing Home
Research Facilities/Labs/Clinical Trials
Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities
Home Health/In-home
Long-Term Structured Residences
Forensic