
Substance Abuse Counselor
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Job overview
The Substance Abuse Counselor provides direct care to patients with mental, emotional, and substance abuse issues, including those with dual diagnoses. The counselor conducts education and treatment activities, provides individual and group counseling, assesses patients, and develops and implements Recovery Plans. The role works with the treatment team and follows company standards while delivering patient-centered care.
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Full job description
You Matter
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Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved
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Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture
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Excellent career growth opportunities
Join us and find a career that supports:
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Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients
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Autonomy in a warm team environment
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Growth and training
Perks and Benefits
In addition to comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and 401k, we foster a work, life balance for team members and their family to support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing including:
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DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it!
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Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships
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Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching
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Company paid life insurance
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Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)
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Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts
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Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans
*Eligibility for perks and benefits varies based on employee type and length of service.
Why Us
Now is your moment to make a difference in the lives of the underserved.
If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to make a difference by helping society's most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. Every day we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most. For those whose calling it is to serve others, now is your moment to join our mission to provide quality care to every patient with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, to live our mantra to “Always Do The Right Thing!”, and to collectively do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time.
Wellpath sees hundreds of thousands of unique individuals in their facilities month over month and a very large percent of those individuals receive direct clinical care, which includes lives saved by Narcan.
We offer ongoing training and development opportunities for licensed and unlicensed healthcare team members, and have best in class clinical resources for training, education, and point of care support.
How you make a difference
The Substance Abuse Counselor provides direct care services to patients with mental, emotional, and substance abuse issues, working closely with the treatment team to fulfill the interdisciplinary treatment process for patients with a dual diagnosis. This includes developing and conducting program activities for education and treatment related to substance abuse, as well asprovidingindividual and group counseling sessions. The counseloris responsible forpatient assessment and the development and implementation of Recovery Plans, within the company's standards.
Key Responsibilities
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Conducts group and individual substance abuse (SA) activities for patients and develops related programs.
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Assesses and evaluates patients for co-occurring disorders anddeterminesthe level of carerequired.
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Ensurestimelycompletion of all necessary records and reports.
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Maintains professional development through in-service education and other resources, whilecomplying withHuman Resources requirements.
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Shows cultural sensitivity, treating each patient as an individual, and considering their cultural background whenprovidingcare and treatment.
Qualifications & Requirements
Education
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Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a social services related field.
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Or Certified in the substance abuse field
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Or Experience in the substance abuse field
Experience
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Ability to work with computers
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Ability to work with software used by the department.
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Relevant experience in provision of addiction counseling services
Licenses/Certifications
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Licensed in an addiction counseling specialty (Certified Addiction Counselor, Registered Addiction Counselor, Certified Addiction Professional (CAP)) certification is strongly preferred
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Certified as a Counselor in Training under supervision or licensed in social work, counseling or psychology
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Must be able to obtain and maintain CPR certification
This position is available only to those who reside in the United States.
We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
We value the contributions of team members with a broad range of experiences, skills, and perspectives and are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all.
We encourage you to apply! If you are excited about a role but your experience doesn’t seem to align perfectly with every element of the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of our many other roles.
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How this job compares
Set against the 1,923 open Counselor jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$62–80K/yr664 salary ranges
- California median$27–28/hr47 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 67 open Counselor jobs in California and 1,923 across the US. 12% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- The Salvation Army8 open
- WestCare Foundation7 open
- Kaiser Permanente6 open
- Experience
- Counselor postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (733 postings).
- Education
- 1,112 of the 1,923 open Counselor jobs (58%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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