Position Summary:

Person in this position will be responsible for the delivery of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to clients participating in the SUD program. Essential job functions include those listed below.

Essential Job Functions:

Complete assessment of each client with required assessment tools. Initiate and sustain each individuals motivation to participate in treatment, using techniques of engagement including therapeutic relationships, individual counseling, and brief interventions. Develop a comprehensive service plan for each participant that includes the results of assessments, and short- and long-term treatment goals and objectives of the participant. Prepare monthly reports for WestCare and outside agencies (e.g., courts). Conduct client drug tests. Communicate with outside agencies if clients dont fulfill all expectations of program. Provide daily treatment and curriculum-based education groups on the basic concepts of therapeutic communities, relapse prevention, motivation for treatment and the stages of change, communicable diseases, cognitive skills, conflict resolution, fundamental social skills, and personal moral development. Maintain individual client treatment files in accordance with agency policies and procedures, including all necessary documentation, and ensure files are securely stored. Maintain all information according to the laws of confidentiality as required by the Federal Register, General Provisions, Title 42, Chapter 1, Part 2, which prohibits making disclosures without the specific written consent of the client, or as otherwise permitted by such regulations. Maintain thorough records of each clients participation, including unique identifier for the WestCare program, beginning and ending dates of service, number of hours of participation, and number of days of participation. Submit all individual client data on a weekly basis for entry in to the WestCare database. Attend all required staff development training, including cross-training, mental health first aid training, and WestCare in-service training such as conducting assessments, clinical skills, developing service plans, basic TC concepts, emotional incarceration, relapse prevention, motivation for treatment and stages of change, cognitive skills, conflict resolution, social skills, moral development, communicable diseases, and self-help groups. May provide supervision to other counseling staff members. Embrace and embody the mission, vision, guiding principles, clinical vision, and goals of WestCare Foundation. Perform any other duties as assigned.