Licensed Addiction Counselor

Montana Counseling Services FULLTIME- Licensed Addiction Counselor (LAC) 201 Fourth Ave,. East Polson, MT 59860 406-594-4830 ** ** ### Join a Team That Makes a Difference We are seeking a compassionate, dependable, and fully licensed Addiction Counselor to join our close-knit team. This position is an opportunity to support people who are hurting because of substance use, mental health concerns, or co-occurring challenges-and to help them move toward hope, stability, and recovery. Our team works hard, supports one another, and laughs as often as possible. We believe healthy workplaces create stronger care, so we communicate openly, treat one another with respect, and lift each other up. We love what we do and are looking for the right person to grow with us ### Position Summary Licensed Addiction Counselor providing ethical, person-centered, and evidence-informed services to individuals experiencing substance use disorders and, within the counselor's scope of practice, co-occurring mental health concerns. The counselor works collaboratively with clients, families when appropriate, colleagues, and community partners to support individualized treatment and long-term recovery. ### Essential Responsibilities - Complete substance use, biopsychosocial, risk, and placement assessments in accordance with applicable standards and organizational - Develop, implement, review, and update individualized treatment plans with measurable - Provide individual and group counseling using evidence-informed, trauma-responsive, and recovery-oriented approaches. - Recognize co-occurring needs, provide services within the counselor's scope of practice, and coordinate referrals to qualified mental health or medical professionals when - Provide crisis support, safety planning, and appropriate referrals in accordance with training, policy, and scope of practice. - Maintain accurate, timely, confidential clinical records and complete all required - Coordinate care with families, treatment providers, social service agencies, and other community resources when authorized and clinically appropriate. - Participate in case consultation, staff meetings, training, quality-improvement activities, and collaborative treatment planning. - Maintain professional boundaries and comply with ethical, legal, confidentiality, and reporting - Contribute to a positive workplace by communicating respectfully, being dependable, helping teammates, and bringing both compassion and professionalism to the workplace. ### Required Qualifications - Current, unrestricted Montana Licensed Addiction Counselor (LAC) license in good - Education, supervised experience, examination, and other credentials required by the Montana Board of Behavioral Health. - Knowledge of substance use disorders, recovery principles, co-occurring conditions, trauma-responsive care, and community resources. - Strong counseling, documentation, organization, communication, and relationship-building - Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a close-knit team - Ability to maintain confidentiality, professional boundaries, and sound clinical judgment. - Ability to satisfy any job-related background, screening, training, and credential-verification requirements. ### Preferred Qualifications - Experience providing addiction treatment in an outpatient, residential, community-based, or integrated behavioral health setting. - Experience facilitating groups and supporting people with co-occurring substance use and mental health - Familiarity with ASAM criteria, motivational interviewing, relapse-prevention planning, and electronic health records. - ### Schedule and Compensation *** *** - Starting pay: $25.00 per - Work schedule and any on-call or evening expectations will be discussed during the interview process. - Benefits: aid Vacation, Sick Leave upon completion of probation ### Who Will Thrive Here You may be a great fit if you genuinely care about people, believe recovery is possible, follow through on your commitments, welcome teamwork, and can balance serious clinical responsibilities with warmth, humility, and appropriate humor. We are looking for someone who wants more than a job-someone who wants to be part of a healthy team dedicated to helping others. ## How to Apply Please submit your resume and a brief cover letter describing why this work matters to you to [email protected], and [email protected] . #### Resumes will be reviewed.as they are received.