Counselor CASAC
- Long Island City, Queens, NY
- $20.48-30.67 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provides individual counseling and treatment/recovery plan preparation, monitoring and review
- Facilitates activities of daily living, community meetings, engagement, carrying out treatment planning in milieu
- Provide therapeutic interactions to foster patients social, cognitive and behavioral skill development
- Provide supervision of milieu staff
- Provide psychosocial interventions to teach skills for coping with urges, craving, impulsive behavior and cognitive distortions in thinking, motivational interviewing techniques
- Provide individual, group and family counseling
- Provide multi-family group counseling
- Plan and facilitate interactions with residents within the milieu to build social, emotional, and behavioral functioning
- Assisting in supervision of activities related to establishing a treatment environment
- Prepare and maintain case records
- Assist in the medication room in case of emergency.
- Ethical Practices
- Judgment
- Relationship Management
- Emotional Intelligence
- Empathy
- Professional Boundaries
- Global and Cultural Awareness
- Critical Evaluation
- Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Crisis Management
- Technical Capacity
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC) in good standing
- LMSW/LMHC Preferred
- Minimum two years in a behavioral health/substance use disorder treatment program
- Trained to dispense medications to clients in case of emergency.
- This job operates in an indoor office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones and photocopiers.
- Regularly required to sit, use hands to type, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
- Frequently required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel or crouch and lift and/or move up to 20 pounds