MAT Addiction Therapist
6 months ago
Redford
Job Description LBS Employee Benefits: We manage the business operations so you can focus on providing high-quality mental health treatment. Here are just some of our perks and benefits: • Competitive base salary, • Medical, dental, and vision insurance with minimal cost to employee, • Teladoc (immediate non-emergency medical services) at no cost to employee, • Long-term, short-term disability and life insurance with no cost to employee, • Licensure-required supervision at no cost to the employee, • PTO includes: generous vacation and personal time with additional annual holidays (35 Paid days off the first year), • Retirement account with company contribution, • One-hour lunch included in the 8-hour workday, • Live and recorded webinars with CE approval from APA, NASW and NBCC, • Malpractice liability insurance policy, • An array of tech equipment to support service delivery including (when applicable), smart phones, agency fleet vehicles, laptops, tablets and desktops with dedicated support from Operations, HR, and IT professionals, • Incentive and bonus opportunities, • Competitive base salary The MAT Addiction Therapist provides individual and group therapy to adults diagnosed with addiction and mental health conditions. This therapist works with both individuals and their family members. This professional collaborates with psychiatric and allied team members in assessment, diagnosing, treatment planning and intervention. This position is full time ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include, but may not be limited to the following: • Reports to work on time, as scheduled, and at the location assigned., • Completes comprehensive addiction/co-occurring assessments to create a thorough description of the individual's treatment needs, presenting problems and necessary information to develop an individualized person-centered treatment plan., • Develops person-centered plans with diagnosis, goals, objectives, and interventions relevant to identified individual’s needs, hopes and desires., • Conducts individual, family, and/or group therapy and provides crisis triage and interventions., • Provides services in accordance with the person-centered plan and professional scope of practice., • Skill set includes diverse interventions (e.g., individual, family, group, co-occurring, trauma treatment and evidence-based practices including Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, etc.), • Documentation for co-occurring consumers includes staging and stage-matched interventions., • Enhanced skill set surrounding treatment of mental illness, addiction and the recovery philosophy., • Maintains direct service hours of at least 85 per month., • Participates in clinical team meetings and consultation., • Completes all documentation/progress notes, assessments, treatment plans within agency required timeframe, • Attends regular case conferences, in-services, training, supervision and workshops., • Strong knowledge, skill set, and experience with the disease concept of chemical dependency, substances use, trauma, stages of change and recovery., • Knowledge of pharmacological addiction treatment approaches., • Proficiency in working within the biological model of SMI (Serious Mental Illness). Critical Thinking- Consistently identifies and applies relevant information to your work: • Gathering information, • Applying Information Equity Mindset-Understands and is committed to goals of equity, consistently centers equity in the organization’s work and workplace: • Awareness of equity issues Communication-Uses effective written and oral communication with internal staff, teams and community served; demonstrates empathy and listening: • Communication approach, • Inquiry and listening Ownership and Quality of Work- Effectively manages own work, and work of teams when relevant, ensuring delivery of high-quality work: • Taking ownership EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE • Master’s degree in Social Work or Counseling from an accredited college or university., • Active MCBAP certification of CAADC (Certified Advanced Alcohol & Drug Counselor) or Development Plan. SKILLS AND ABILITIES PHYSICAL DEMANDS - The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.