Substance Abuse Worker 118001400

The Substance Abuse Worker is responsible for providing outreach, intake and wrap around services to clients receiving assistance from the Cumberland County Recovery Center partners. This position is also responsible for documenting client outreach, client progress, and referring participants to the appropriate resource.

Duties for this position include, but are not limited to:

• Assist clients by finding resources, advising the consumer of processes, and encouraging follow through with proposed resolutions, locating social activities, or provide other assistance as needed.
• Model effective coping and self-help techniques to individuals or groups of patients.
• Provide recommendations to clients on empowerment skills and successful community living.
• Accompany clients to initial Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) visits to in advocate for consumer needs, leading recovery dialogues/self-help sessions with clients.
• Collaborate with community agencies to divert individuals into treatment rather than incarceration or reincarceration and to decrease utilization of the emergency department.
• Assist clients with identification and required documents for employment, healthcare, and housing.
• Connect and refer clients to appropriate treatment and recovery support services (employment, housing, jobs, health insurance, healthcare services, etc.).
• Arrange after-care services and monitor continued recovery.
• Attend appropriate external stakeholder meetings, including Cumberland-Fayetteville Opioid Response Team (C-FORT), Crisis Collaborative Meetings and Jail Health Committee meetings.
• Participate in community engagement and outreach activities.
• Facilitate treatment groups.
• Complete SMART Recovery training and implement groups for community.
• Collaborate with Public Health Education staff to provide substance use education classes to program participants.
• Gather statistical information and follow-up for client reporting.

Minimum Qualifications

Graduation from high school and one year of experience in substance abuse in a supportive informational role; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
 
 
Management Preferences:
 

• Experience with the populations served or substance abuse professional
• Certified Peer Support Specialist