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Help Us Help People to Realize the Resilience Thats Within Them.

Do you enjoy helping people to achieve their goals and dreams?

Want to work for a company committed to supporting, educating, and empowering people to choose and achieve what is important to them?

Monarch NC, a provider of high-quality and trauma-informed care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, mental illness and substance use disorders, is seeking an experienced Addiction / Substance Abuse Counselor to join our team in Gastonia, NC.

The Addiction / Substance Abuse Counselor will assist and support individuals who are served in the development of skills, behaviors, responsibilities, and supports needed to live, learn, work and be integrated into the community with the greatest possible degree of self-determination and independence.

Responsibilities include:

• Provide service coordination for individual with mental health and substance abuse issues and is responsible for developing, with the other team members, the overall service plan.
• Provide education and training on mental illness, SUDS, relapse identification, preventions and the promotion of recovery.
• Implement interventions that are evidence-based practices demonstrating effectiveness working with individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.
• Implement harm reduction practices, and programs that address the adverse effects of drug use including overdose, HIV, hepatitis C, addiction, and incarceration.
• Provide symptom monitoring of mental health and SUD symptoms, which interfere with the individuals daily living; assisting the beneficiary to identify and minimize their symptoms and potentially harmful behaviors.
• Complete appropriate assessments including assessment of current and historical substance use and identify appropriate levels of treatment to make referrals to other services as necessary.
• Assist in the development of natural support networks. Individual and group supportive counseling, monitoring of symptoms and medications, linking the individual supported to the appropriate services, agencies and supports in the community, monitoring their development of appropriate behaviors in his/her home and other community settings, teaching the individual supported skills necessary for independent community living and facilitating them in the practice and transfer of these skills to his/her environment, providing support to his/her family.
• Assume responsibility for writing, implementing, evaluating, and revising Person Centered Plan and overall treatment goals and service plans that are based on evaluations and recommendations from assessments by various professionals and input from the individual supported.
• Facilitate training of independent living skills, establish access to community services and agencies, assist individuals in establishing support networks in the community and assess individual needs on a daily basis.
• Ensure immediate and appropriate interventions are provided in response to changes in mental status which may put individual at risk.
• Assists with the development of relapse prevention and disease management strategies.
• Consults with identified medical (i.e., primary care and psychiatric) and non-medical providers, engages community and natural supports, and includes their input in the person-centered planning process.
• Drive and travel extensively to community locations, various agencies, and other outreach destinations. Provide and/or arrange for transportation for people supported as required.
• Complete all other relevant responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree in a Human Services related field is required.
• Must have at least one of the following North Carolina licenses or certifications: CADC, LCAS-A or LCAS.
• At least 2 years of post-graduate experience working with people with intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities, mental health issues or substance abuse issues.
• A valid Driver's License is also required.

Benefits

We understand that in order for our professionals to take good care of our people, we need to take good care of them too. Thats why we offer the following benefits:

• Employee Care Fund for Monarch staff facing financial hardship as a result of unforeseen circumstances like a natural disaster, house fire or other emergencies!
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off, including 10 paid company holidays
• Our company qualifies for the Student Loan Forgiveness Program!
• Employee Development Program
• Employee Retirement Plan
• Employee Referral Program
• Employee Assistance Program