1. Case management – overall coordination of a patient’s care while in outpatient services, including the integration of family sessions, communication with referral sources, assessment of patient progress and communication to the clinical team regarding special treatment needs and procedures.
2. Responsible for assessment activities (level of care evaluation, psychosocial interview/integrated summary) – a clinical function to determine eligibility for and placement in a level of treatment based on admission criteria. The writing and summation of findings from therapy and other disciplines with diagnostic impressions.
3. Group therapy and individual counseling – conducting the clinical process through which patients address treatment goals, as stated on their treatment plans via an interactive process with other patients.
4. Family sessions – collecting information on the chemically dependent patient, assessing family dynamics, recommending the family education program and possible ongoing family therapy. This also includes individual family therapy as needed.
5. Aftercare care assessment and planning – assess unresolved and deferred problems and write goals and objectives in the aftercare plan, and coordinate this with the Financial Continuing Care Specialist when necessary.
6. Responsible for the collection of random urine drug screen and breathalyzer samples from patients and relaying the results to the patient.
7. The counselor is expected to work within the ethical constraints of the certified addiction counselor, and other professional or organizational ethic standards as they apply to the position.
8. Responsible for documenting treatment plans, progress notes, treatment plan updates, case consultations, telephone calls and discharge summaries in the patient records in a timely fashion. This includes the coordination of assessments from the multidisciplinary treatment team in according to Caron policy and procedures.
9. Responsible for completing necessary utilization review information and forwarding it to the Financial Continuing Care Specialists.
10. Assume responsibilities such as coordination of internship training programs, perform speaking engagements for targeted groups in the facility and general community, represent the facility on clinical/administrative committees, assist in training new staff and consult or provide other treatment services at Caron facilities as assigned.
11. This job description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions; it does not
prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.