Addiction Medicine Clinician
Job Description
The Addiction Medicine Clinician I is an independently licensed as an LMSW-CC, LCPC-C, LCSW, LCPC or LMFT with experience in providing trauma-informed care in the treatment of substance use and co-occurring disorders who provides individual and group therapy services within an addiction medicine program for individuals with opioid use disorder. Working with a collaborative treatment team, they are responsible for ensuring high quality, recovery-oriented treatment to assigned caseload through assessment, evaluation, treatment, and discharge planning in accordance with regulatory policies. As direct care providers they function as skilled advocates, brokers, educators, and treatment specialists. They are responsible for development of interdisciplinary treatment plans that are based on the clinical assessment and data from formal and informal community support systems. They are familiar with regional social service provider systems and adept at assisting clients in linking with step down treatment services during discharge planning. They are proficient at ensuring that ongoing liaison occurs with families and referring community providers including primary care providers. They rely on more than one theoretical framework in providing direct client care or clinical formulations, are adept at articulating case reviews and creating documentation that reflects both active treatment provisions and client response to care. The Addiction Medicine Clinician serves as a role model for other staff members and leaders in teaching other non-professional staff. This person performs duties and/or responsibilities as assigned by the Manager or Supervisor for which they are qualified.
Responsibilities:
Experience working with Substance Abuse Population in an opioid treatment program, opioid health home or a primary care setting treating this disorder is preferred.
Competencies and Skills
Credentials
Education
Northern Light Acadia Hospital is a broad behavioral health delivery system centrally managed from its location in Bangor, Maine. Acadia Hospital is a leader in providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services, tele-psychiatry, consultations to regional emergency departments, school-based and employer-based services, and integration into primary and specialty care practices. Northern Light Acadia Hospital offers innovative programming in the form of eating disorder services and a geriatric mood and memory clinic, which is involved in multiple clinical trials for promising Alzheimer's medications. The hospital is also the parent organization of Northern Light Acadia Healthcare which provides a substance use disorder treatment program, case management, and other outpatient mental health services serving patients from all corners of Maine. Acadia Hospital embraces service excellence and high quality care as evidenced by its commitment to achieve Center of Excellence status in the delivery of behavioral health services.
Northern Light Acadia Hospital is a member of Northern Light Health, an integrated statewide health delivery system that is raising the bar with no-nonsense solutions that are leading the way to a healthier future for our state. Northern Light Health offers a broad range of providers and services, including ten hospitals, primary care and specialty physician practices, long-term care, home health and hospice agencies, and emergency ground and air transport.
Bangor, Maine is a vibrant small city with easy access to Maine's spectacular coast, mountains, and lakes. Schools rank among New England's best with the flagship campus of the University of Maine located in the neighboring town of Orono. Bangor serves as the regional hub for medicine, the arts, and commerce. Bangor International Airport offers direct and one-stop service to many major destinations.
Responsibilities:
- Completes comprehensive, diagnostic evaluations by collecting data which enables the identification of potential therapeutic targets for active treatment.
- Develops initial master treatment plan and updates in collaboration with the patient and within established timeframes that identify effective interventions to achieve outcomes, and accommodate the patient's developmental level, motivation, health/spiritual beliefs, functional capabilities and strengths.
- Implements individual, group and family therapy interventions that are evidence-based and are consistent with service plan and developmental level and needs of patient to elicit therapeutic change.
- Modifies interventions based on continual assessment of the patient's response to treatment.
- Articulates anticipated treatment outcomes that are patient oriented, evidence based, therapeutically sound, realistic, attainable and measurable.
- Completes documentation that reflects evidence-based practices, active patient involvement in care, attention to objective outcomes and identification of any barriers to treatment progress.
- Maintains a safe environment complying with Northern Light Health policies and procedures, reports and directly addresses environmental hazards and violations of patient safety policy and/or protocol when involved or observed.
- Continually seeks to develop professionally by providing didactic clinician and interdisciplinary trainings within identified specialty areas.
- Functions as an informal leader within program area and larger hospital by providing ongoing feedback to colleagues on evidence-based practices and outcome informed care.
- Provides clinical supervision to clinicians as assigned
- Completes documentation within required timeframes.
Experience working with Substance Abuse Population in an opioid treatment program, opioid health home or a primary care setting treating this disorder is preferred.
Competencies and Skills
- 2+ years of relative work experience required.
Credentials
- Required Licensed Clin Prof Counselor
Education
- Required Master's Degree, Master’s degree in social work, professional counseling or comparable degree.
Northern Light Acadia Hospital is a broad behavioral health delivery system centrally managed from its location in Bangor, Maine. Acadia Hospital is a leader in providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services, tele-psychiatry, consultations to regional emergency departments, school-based and employer-based services, and integration into primary and specialty care practices. Northern Light Acadia Hospital offers innovative programming in the form of eating disorder services and a geriatric mood and memory clinic, which is involved in multiple clinical trials for promising Alzheimer's medications. The hospital is also the parent organization of Northern Light Acadia Healthcare which provides a substance use disorder treatment program, case management, and other outpatient mental health services serving patients from all corners of Maine. Acadia Hospital embraces service excellence and high quality care as evidenced by its commitment to achieve Center of Excellence status in the delivery of behavioral health services.
Northern Light Acadia Hospital is a member of Northern Light Health, an integrated statewide health delivery system that is raising the bar with no-nonsense solutions that are leading the way to a healthier future for our state. Northern Light Health offers a broad range of providers and services, including ten hospitals, primary care and specialty physician practices, long-term care, home health and hospice agencies, and emergency ground and air transport.
Bangor, Maine is a vibrant small city with easy access to Maine's spectacular coast, mountains, and lakes. Schools rank among New England's best with the flagship campus of the University of Maine located in the neighboring town of Orono. Bangor serves as the regional hub for medicine, the arts, and commerce. Bangor International Airport offers direct and one-stop service to many major destinations.
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