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title: Substance Abuse Counselor at WestCare in Caguas, PR
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| **Company** | WestCare |
| **Location** | Caguas, PR |
| **Salary** | $14/hr |
| **Posted** | Oct 01, 2026 |
## Description

**Position Summary:**

Responsible for ensuring that clients receive the individual range of medical care and other comprehensive services necessary to optimize each client's substance use, mental health, and health outcomes.

**Essential Job Functions:**

- It is responsible for the targeted evaluations of their substance abuse of all Project clients.
- It is responsible for participating in the initial interview for the determination of needs and maintaining the social reports of each of the clients, carrying out evaluations of an emotional nature, self-esteem, independent living abilities, for the different necessary departments, making psychoactive history of the client
- She gives individual and group therapies aimed at substance abuse and improves social and community skills.
- Realization of treatment plans and collection of services performed on clients
- Design plans that guide the client in achieving their goals.
- It contributes to the development and increase of Well-being, involving the individual, group and community, as well as institutions and services related to the use and abuse of substances.
- Participate with the Social Worker in the elaboration and development of the service plan.
- It carries out visits to the penal institutions as required by the Program or Project.
- Realiza reuniones de autoayuda, familia y pareja.
- Review of records and compliance with eligibility documents in coordination with the Coordinator
- In charge of all things support groups, client evaluation, and conducting substance abuse service activities on a daily basis.
- Keeps the coordinator abreast of situations that occurred during their interventions.
- Assess the needs of clients in conjunction with the team and others
- Represents and accompanies in court and/or in an Arbitration Chamber.
- Set new goals and objectives so that each client can develop a life plan and can reintegrate into the community by implementing the skills learned within the help center.
- Help the customer eliminate harmful behaviors.
- Keep notes in the service file, of interventions with customers.
- Visit penal institutions according to the nature of the program or project.
- Make work and statistical reports.
- Perform drug tests.

***Education:***

Bachelor of Social Work with an active Substance Abuse Counseling Certification, if you are a Social Worker, you must have a valid license to practice as a Social Worker. Certification of having taken courses and training on the issue of addiction to drugs, alcohol and other related services. Bilingual, writing skills**.**
## Skills

- Bilingual
- Independent Living Support
- Environment Health And Safety
- Treatment Planning
- Arbitration
- Coordinating
- Writing
- Substance Abuse Counseling

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