Women's Residential Substance Use Counselor

Four days a week. Full-time pay. Benefits that are actually worth having.

This is a Monday–Thursday position, four 10-hour days. If a three-day weekend every week sounds good to you, keep reading.

Hope House is a long-term residential and intensive outpatient treatment program for pregnant and postpartum women with substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders. Our residents are in some of the most vulnerable seasons of their lives — and the Counselor role is where the clinical work happens.

This is not an administrative or case management position. You will carry a caseload. You will provide individual, group, and family therapy. You will complete assessments, write treatment plans, and do the documentation that real clinical care requires. If you want direct service work in a setting that actually matters, this is it.

What this job actually looks like:

• Completing intake assessments — biopsychosocial, ANSA, ASAM, Value Options summaries — in our EMR (Azzly)
• Developing individualized treatment plans in collaboration with participants
• Providing individual, group, and family therapy using evidence-based, trauma-informed approaches
• Diagnosing and treating mental health, behavioral, and substance use disorders
• Crisis intervention when participants are in distress
• Coordinating care with Case Managers, primary care providers, and community resources
• Participating in treatment team meetings, group supervision, and GA STRONG
• Maintaining accurate, timely clinical documentation — you know what this means and you do it

You'll be good at this if you:

• Have genuine clinical skill and can do the documentation that comes with it
• Understand that this population requires patience, boundaries, and real empathy — not just one of those
• Have worked with substance use, co-occurring disorders, or perinatal populations before
• Can stay grounded in a setting where participants' needs are complex and the stakes are real
• Have personal or professional experience that gives you actual insight into recovery

Requirements:

• Master's degree in a related field with eligibility for licensure — OR — certification as an Addiction Counselor through the Certification Board of Georgia
• At least 2 years of experience in mental health and/or substance use disorder treatment
• Experience working with chemical dependency and behavioral health

The benefits are genuinely good.

We lead with this because it matters: Hope House offers a generous PTO package and schedule flexibility that is rare in this field. Four 10-hour days means every weekend is a three-day weekend. We believe the people doing this work deserve real time off — and we build that into the job, not around it.

Pay: $39,000–$42,000 based on experience. We're transparent about this upfront because we respect your time.

Hope House is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage applications from individuals in recovery and those with lived experience in the communities we serve.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $39,000.00 - $42,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Medical Specialty:

• Addiction Medicine

Education:

• Master's (Required)

Experience:

• working with people with substance use disorder: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: In person