Substance Use Counselor - Mason City - Women's IOP

Job Description

Job Description

Why Prairie Ridge?
At Prairie Ridge, you'll join a collaborative team dedicated to helping individuals and families live healthy, purpose-filled lives on their terms. We value innovation, compassion, and professional growth, offering opportunities to expand your clinical skills while working alongside experienced professionals in an integrated behavioral healthcare setting.

As part of our team, you'll receive a competitive, customizable benefits package that includes multiple health insurance options, dental and vision coverage, flexible spending accounts, and employer-paid life insurance and short- and long-term disability insurance. We also invest in your professional development through continuing education, training opportunities, and support for career advancement.

Prairie Ridge is a place where you can grow your career while making a lasting impact—on your clients, your community, and yourself.

Help people build lasting recovery.
As an Intensive Outpatient (IOP) Clinician at Prairie Ridge, you'll provide compassionate, evidence-based treatment to individuals navigating substance use and co-occurring mental health challenges. Through individual, group, and family counseling, you'll help patients develop the skills, confidence, and support they need to achieve long-term recovery. Working alongside an integrated team of behavioral health professionals, you'll play a key role in guiding individuals from intensive treatment through continued care, empowering them to live healthy, purpose-filled lives on their terms.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Treat all individuals with dignity and respect while maintaining agency standards of confidentiality, professionalism, and objectivity. 
2. Maintain case management and oversight of the IOP (Intensive Outpatient) population & Offer continuity of care by providing step down support and services into a specified EOP (Extended Outpatient) milieu.
3. Provide intervention, evaluation/assessment, individual, group and family counseling to individuals affected by substance use disorders and secondary co-occurring disorders.
4. Create individualized safety planning and person-centered treatment planning to all patients in the program.
5. Develop and maintain a community referral network.
   
6. Provide education and training to individuals, groups, and agencies.
7. Consistent collaboration and coordination of care between all Prairie Ridge services.
8. Participate in patient transition & discharge plans, including development of relapse prevention and wellness plans, scheduling, and aftercare placement.
9. Engage in crisis intervention and risk management as appropriate within the program.
10. Develop and maintain a working knowledge of current and emerging evidence-based practices and approaches and incorporate in group curriculum and individual therapy.
11. Attend staff consultation, supervision, and training activities.
12. Aim to uphold and contribute to agency culture, mission, vision, and value.
13. Proficiency in clinical practices identified as best practice by the agency demonstrated through supervision and direct observation.
14. Develop and maintain a working knowledge of all documentation and reporting systems to include ISmart, Accreditation Now, MyOutcomes, and Electronic Health Record.
15. Maintain all regulatory, contract and documentation standards and data collection, insurance authorization requirements, and complete necessary documentation in a timely manner.
16. Demonstrate understanding and adherence to all CARF policies and procedures.
17. Provide adjunct support and coverage to the Residential & Full Day Programs.
18. Assume 24hr on-call duty once every clinical staff rotation.
19. Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor.

 

QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelor's Degree (required) in health-related field is required for treatment of substance use and gambling disorders.
2. For clinicians treating individuals with a primary substance use disorder diagnosis, an Iowa Substance Abuse Counselor Certificate or license is preferred. 
   
3. Understanding of the mission of Prairie Ridge and the patients we work with.
   
4. Proficiency in oral and written communication skills, as well as record keeping.
5. Technology skills allowing for proficiency in use of electronic health record.
6. Physical demands: The employee frequently lifts and moves up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.