Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor – Champaign IL

Mission

Dedicated to improving the health of the community through treatment, prevention, and education.

Job Description

This Community Health Center seeks a full-time Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor to join our health center. This CHC provides primary medical care and behavioral health services, dental services, and mental health counseling.

This position will provide child, adolescent and adult addictions counseling to individuals, groups, couples or families. This position will also provide mental health counseling. Interviews patients and their families to coordinate and plan programs and activities to meet their social and emotional needs and collaborates with primary medical, psychiatry and oral health care providers to deliver integrated care for patients.

This CHC began as a volunteer-staffed health center, created in the 1960’s to address the issue of high infant mortality in the African-American community. It has since transformed into a health center with staff physicians dedicated to providing primary health care to the underserved in our community. In 2006, the CHC moved to its current location on Bloomington Road in Champaign. In 2011, a Dental Center opened in the same location. This organization provides over 40,000 patient visits and cares for over 11,500 patients annually. The health center is a family practice clinic and delivers integrated care, with on-site mental health counselors, psychiatrists, and a dental clinic. Patients are supported for social service needs. The health center has a great referring relationship with providers in the community, which provides our patients great access to specialty care.

Position is 40 hours/week.

Vacation

Yes

CME

$1500 total reimbursement per 1.0 FTE

Relocation Paid

Please inquire.

Other Benefits

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Voluntary insurance (accident, critical illness, etc.)

401k/403b match or safe harbor contribution

Vacation

CME – $1,500 / year