DRUG & ALCOHOL COUNSELOR (TEAP) at ENDLESS HORIZONS – Milwaukee, Wisconsin

We are looking for an individual with experience in wellness and a passion for working with teens and young adults for our TEAP Specialist position where you will be working as our center's drug and alcohol abuse counselor.

• Provides a minimum of a 1-hour interactive presentation on substance use prevention for all new students during the Career Preparation Period.

• Schedules and conducts at least three annual center-wide substance use prevention and education activities.

• Participates in clinical consultation with Center Director, management staff, Center Mental Health Consultant, and Health and Wellness Manager regarding substance use related prevention and education efforts for students and staff.

• Reviews Social Intake Form (SIF) or intake assessment of all students performed by counseling staff within 1 week of arrival.

• Collaborates with the Center Mental Health Consultant to determine when a MSWR or medical separation is appropriate and should be recommended for a student with substance use conditions.

• Provides individual and group intervention services with a focus on behaviors that represent employability barriers.

• Assists in developing Center operating procedures for program components related to alcohol and other drug testing and intervention.

• Develops and monitors student intervention plans and documents progress in student’s health record.

• Conducts ongoing counseling and support groups to include an introduction to the self-help process for intervention students.

• Works with the Center Mental Health Consultant (CMHC), Center physician, wellness staff, counselors and other non-health staff to ensure that intervention program components are fully understood and integrated on Center and that staff support student intervention plans.

• Solicits input from counselors and Student Personnel Officer to update student intervention plans and behavioral contracts. Ensures that intervention planning guides a student’s expected behavior in all areas of Center life and the student is monitored, as needed, by designated Center staff.

• Collaborates with recreation department to assist in developing leisure time activities and specific incentives to reinforce an alcohol-free and drug-free lifestyle.

• Maintains liaison with community intervention resources.

• Evaluates self-help groups and establishes appropriate referrals.

• Assists in compiling quarterly report for submission to the National Health Service.

• Conducts training on alcohol and other drugs of abuse to all newly-employed staff and to existing staff on an annual basis.

• Maintains good housekeeping in all areas and complies with safety practices.

• Complies with all DOL guidelines, OFCCP regulations, Job Corps notices and bulletins, and Center policies and procedures.

• Models, mentors, monitors appropriate Career Success Standards.

• Helps students become more employable through continuous reinforcement.

• Participates in PRH mandated staff training. Failure to participate may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.

• Performs other duties as assigned within the individual’s scope and capabilities.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Experience: One-year experience required.

Education: Bachelors’ Degree with an active, unrestricted license and/or certification in accordance with state regulations to practice as an independent practitioner in state where center is located. A waiver may be authorized by DOL subject to a professional development plan.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Valid State Drivers’ License. CSAC