Job Details
Job Location
My Sister’s House – Atlanta, GA
Position Type
Full Time
Education Level
Master’s Degree
Salary Range
$49,680.00 – $55,000.00 Salary/year
Travel Percentage
Negligible
Job Shift
Day
Job Category
Nonprofit – Social Services
Description
Do you feel called to work in a Christian Ministry?
Do you want to work where you make a difference in the lives of others?
Join us at the Atlanta Mission, where we make a difference in the lives of over 1000 men, women, and children every day by providing food, shelter, clothing, counseling, vocational and spiritual guidance. We get to witness radical life transformations.
The Mental Health & Substance Abuse Counselor is a critical member of our ministry, serving by providing counseling services based upon the client’s personalized service plan goals and objectives.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Orients clients to the counseling process, guidelines, and expectations
- Works with an individual client caseload to conduct clinical evaluation, screening, assessment, and individual sessions to address emotional needs
- Manages initial and ongoing personalized service planning for emotional goals
- Documents progression towards emotional goals
- Facilitates assigned therapeutic group sessions with clients and members of clients’ support system
- Leads process or psycho-educational groups on various topics related to emotional and mental health
- Provides counseling services that include individual, group, and family
- Assist with crisis intervention management through the utilization of crisis intervention and e-escalation techniques. When necessary, assist in the evaluation for involuntary assessment and interventions
- Communicate client status updates through verbal or written communications utilizing Microsoft Outlook and Salesforce as part of multidisciplinary team engagement
- Participate in weekly team meetings to discuss case consultations
- Participates as necessary in design meetings to inform the continuous learning process of clinical services
- May serve as a clinical resource for other Mental Health Counselors
- Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications
You will uphold the following Christ-Centered values:
- Humbly Serve: You strive to live, Love and Lead like Jesus
- Faithfully Steward: You honor and wisely use the time, talent and treasures that God has provided
- Courageously Innovate: You are driven towards excellence, you continuously learn, adapt and improve
- Joyfully Celebrate: You intentionally appreciate and recognize all that God is doing in and through all the stakeholders of Atlanta Mission.
- Strength in Unity: You embrace God’s desire for oneness and kingdom-focused unity.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Minimum of two years of Substance Abuse, Addiction, and/or Recovery experience
- Working knowledge of Substance Abuse Addiction and Recovery 12 Steps Principles
- Fluency in the DSM-5 and common diagnoses of the population served
Education, Certification, or License Requirements:
- Master’s Degree in one or more of the following: mental health counseling, marriage and family therapy, social work or related field
- GA state license required or eligible. Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), Licensed Associate Professional Counselor (LAPC), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), or Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)
- Job related license (g., CAC1, CADC, CAADC, CADC-T)
SPECIAL JOB REQUIREMENTS: While this position will primarily serve one campus, this position may require travel to additional campuses associated with Atlanta Mission for training and cross training purposes.