Job Description
At Trilogy, this counselor connects with individuals recovering from mental illness and substance abuse, providing personalized support that fosters treatment plans and community integration. The work directly aids clients in maintaining independence, reducing reliance on inpatient care through harm-reduction strategies.
Trilogy focuses on behavioral health services, offering mental health and substance abuse treatment programs across locations like Rogers Park. The organization provides client-centered care using trauma-informed approaches in community settings.
Counselors assess personal, medical, emotional, social, and environmental situations via home, community, and office visits, developing recovery plans with clients and providers. They model recovery skills, participate in meetings, manage IM+CANS and Electronic Medical Records, and handle medication monitoring with MAR documentation. Interactions include multidisciplinary teams, pharmacies, and direct client advocacy; a challenge is providing on-call crisis coverage and handling de-compensation signs collaboratively.
Pay ranges from $22.89 to $26.32 per hour with a $1,500 sign-on bonus. Hours are Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm in Rogers Park; full-time or part-time possible. Benefits include free virtual primary care, urgent care, mental health counseling, paid maternity/paternity leave, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, pet insurance, FSA, telemedicine, EAP, and 403(b) with employer match.
Responsibilities
- Assess client situation through home, community, office visits
- Coordinate establishment of individual recovery plan
- Model good communication, recovery living skills, coping skills
- Actively participate in Peer Support meetings
- Acquire CRSS credential within 12 months
- Complete daily progress notes in Trilogy documentation
- Recognize opportunities to move clients to appropriate care levels, provide referrals
- Assist clients in identifying de-compensation signs, assess for crisis
- Provide psychoeducation, medication training and monitoring
- Document in real time on medication administration record
- Assist with independent living skills like hygiene, housekeeping, nutrition, shopping
- Educate and assist applying for entitlements like SSI, SSDI, Medicare, Medicaid, LINK
- Accompany transport clients to appointments, provide housing, substance, budgeting support
- Advocate for clients, empower self-advocacy
- Communicate in multidisciplinary team model
- Participate in electronic platform communication
- Engage in daily team meetings
- Provide on-call and crisis coverage
- Perform other related duties as assigned
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED and two years of supervised clinical experience in a mental health setting
- Associate or Bachelor degree in any field
- Past or present consumer of mental health services, willing to share recovery story
- Valid Illinois driver license with $100,000/$300,000 liability insurance
- Experience working with mental health or substance abuse diagnoses preferred
- IM+CANS certification preferred, must obtain within 30 days
- CRSS credential within 12 months