Recovery Counselor

THIS ROLE REQUIRES A CAR

$22.89 - 26.32 /Hr.

$1,500 Sign-on Bonus!

Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm

Position located in Rogers Park

The Recovery Counselor will assess the client’s personal, medical, emotional, social, and environmental situation to plan for treatment course through home, community, and office visits.

They will work with clients who may have higher risk factors that create a barrier to more traditional outreach services.

The Recovery Counselor will be an advocate for clients and link them to community services as needed.

They will provide client-centered, strengths-based, and trauma-informed services to clients with severe mental illnesses and co-occurring substance abuse/addiction disorders utilizing a harm reduction approach.

The Recovery Counselor will provide at least 60-75% of all community support services in the community.

They will engage clients that are not already linked to services and will build relationships to help increase their receptivity to services and treatment.

This includes a focus on clients involved in the criminal justice system and clients that are experiencing street homelessness.

The Recovery Counselor will complete case management tasks with clients and assist with accessing entitlements where clients may later be linked with higher levels of care depending on their need.

The Recovery Counselor will also provide crisis/on-call coverage as directed.

 

Primary Job Functions


* Independently assess risk and client’s need for higher level of care; i.e.

hospital, detox program, emergency room, etc.


* Determine associated risk and coordinate support from colleagues/Supervisors to manage risk; e.g.

provide two-person visits to clients


* Assess client’s personal, medical, emotional, social, and environmental situation through home, community, and office visits.


* Implement assertive engagement strategies with potential clients to bring them into services and assist with linkage to needed treatment.


* Participate in initial engagement with clients through street, shelter, jail, and community outreach throughout the city of Chicago.


* Complete intake process for clients being opened to the team from various referral sources including Illinois Department of Corrections, shelters, and hospitals.

Complete client’s intake paperwork; i.e. application for services, consent for treatment, etc.


* Conduct mental health assessments to determine service needs, appropriateness of service, and level of care needed.  Document all client encounters in tracking systems.  


* Ensure completion of authorization for services.  Communicate with managed care organizations to retrieve authorizations for client services. 


* Coordinate the establishment of an individual recovery plan with the client, client’s support system, and other care providers.


* Recognize and act on opportunities to move clients to appropriate levels of care; provid...