Company Description
BPN Staffing Solutions is a leading provider of healthcare professionals to care facilities, hospitals, and nursing homes in the United States. With over two decades of experience, we offer a range of staffing services including contract clinicians, executive search services, and temporary employment solutions.
Role Description
This is a full-time on-site role for a Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist located in the Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point Area. The specialist will be responsible for providing addiction counseling, conducting assessments, developing treatment plans, and facilitating interventions for individuals struggling with addiction.
Duties (includes, but not limited to the following)
- Responsible for developing & coordinating the Person Centered Plan
- Coordination & oversight of initial and ongoing assessment activities & ongoing assessment activities
- Initial development & ongoing revision of PCP
- Monitoring of implementation of Person Centered Plan.
- Provide direct intervention & also arrange, coordinates, & monitors service on behalf of the client such as: Individual counseling and support; Group Counseling; training or support; biochemical assays to identify recent drug use, develop strategies for relapse prevention to include community/social support systems in treatment, life skills, crisis contingency planning; disease management, and treatment support activities the MH/DD/SA population.
- Services is provided in any location, whether group or individuals
- Provide case management to arrange, link, or integrate multiple services as well as assessment & re-assessment of the need for services.
- Inform the consumer about benefits, community resources, and services, accessing benefits and services
- Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist(LCAS) will be on call to cover all nights, weekends, and holidays.
- LCAS is expected to return all calls within 15 minutes.
- LCAS will use their professional judgment to access client's situation. If it is a life or death emergency the LCAS will call 911 immediately.
- If situation requires a face-to-face evaluation, the evaluation will be initiated within 2 hours of receiving the emergency call
- If crisis cannot be deescalated, the LCAS will contact Nurse Practitioner/ MD on-call.
- Caseloads Ratio: Adults 1:12; Adolescent 1:6
- LCAS will demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the service as well as demonstrate their clinical expertise and skill level by successfully completing a clinical interview.
- Team will be under the clinical supervision of a CCS or a LCAS who is on site a minimum of 50% of the hours the service operation.
General Education & Qualifications
- an individual who holds a license, provisional license, certificate, registration or permit issued by the governing board regulating a human service profession, except a registered nurse who is licensed to practice in the State of North Carolina by the North Carolina Board of Nursing who also has four years of full-time accumulated experience in mh/dd/sa with the population served; or
- Person providing this service shall hold a Bachelor's degree in a human service field, and has two years of full-time, post-bachelor's degree accumulated mh/dd/sa experience with the population served, or a substance abuse professional who has two years of full-time, post–bachelor's degree accumulated supervised experience in alcoholism and drug abuse counseling or,
- Hold a four year degree with a Masters degree in a human service field and has one year of full-time, post graduate degree accumulated mh/dd/sa experience with the population served, or a substance abuse professional who has one year of full-time post-graduate degree accumulated supervised experience in alcoholism and drug abuse counseling or,
- Holds a Bachelor's degree in a field other than that related to human services and has four years of full-time, post-bachelor's degree accumulated mh/dd/sa experience with the population served, or a substance abuse professional who has four years of full-time, postbachelor's degree accumulated supervised experience in alcoholism and drug abuse counseling.
- All staff providing SAIOP to adults must have a minimum of 20 hours to training specific to the required service definition components (including crisis response) within the first 90 days of employment.
- Persons who meet the requirements specified for CCS, LCAS, and CSAC under the Article 5c may deliver the SAIOP program.
- The program must be under the clinical supervision of a LCAS or CCS who is on site a minimum of 90% of the hours the service is in operation.
- Clinical services may also be provided by staff who meet the requirements for Qualified Professional or Associate Professional for Substance Abuse according to 10A NCAC 27G.0104 under the supervision of a LCAS or CCS