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Minneapolis, Minnesota

Substance Use Disorder Counselor - Detox

CounselorIncludes weekendsFull-Time

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Job Description

Join our team in driving a healthier future. Fairview is an award-winning nonprofit health care system with more than 35,000 employees. We are committed to high value health, superior outcomes, and an exceptional experience at a lower cost of care. Based in Minneapolis with clinics, hospitals, and facilities located throughout the state, we deliver care for people at all stages of life, and we serve patients who come to us from a variety of backgrounds.

Passionate, innovative employees are essential to our future as we seek to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives. Innovations in care delivery include trauma-informed and integrative care, HUB sites where patients can access co-located and integrated behavioral health care, EmPATH (Emergency Psychiatric Assessment, Treatment, and Healing) units, and Recovery Services.

Job Overview

The SUD Counselor, working in conjunction with the treatment team and under the direction of the Clinical Systems Manager, Supervisor, Lead Psychotherapist/Counselor, and/or Charge Nurse, is responsible for the therapeutic implementation of the SUD treatment program for clients. This includes planning, coordinating, and delivering SUD counseling services and developing relationships with family members and concerned persons.

Schedule: Sunday-Thursday 8:00 am- 4:30 pm

Location: UMMC West Bank, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities

  • Oversees and facilitates comprehensive assessment process for individual clients.
  • Completes comprehensive assessments as required
  • Reviews result of all assessment components and develop a summary of needs
  • Develop treatment plan, which addresses problems identified through assessment
  • Develops treatment plan and goals
  • Actively involves the client and the family in the development of a treatment plan
  • Communicates/consults with internal and external members of treatment team.

Makes referrals for additional services as needed and follows up to assess client acceptance of/or appropriateness of referral

Actively involves client in assessing progress on treatment goals and develops a workable plan for continuing recovery.

  • Utilizes family and community resources to enhance client’s recovery plan
  • Regularly reviews and updates to reflect client status.
  • Produces reports/summaries documenting client progress
  • Facilitates one or more of the following components of treatment: orientation, as needed:
  • Individual counseling
  • Group counseling
  • Lectures and family groups
  • Facilitates recreation activities
  • Workshops, psycho-education and skills groups
  • Care Coordination

Uses Community Resources in Making Discharge Plans

  • Plans activities that bring services, resources and/or people together within a planned framework of action toward achievement of established goals
  • Identifies needs that cannot be met by the program and assist the client to utilize support systems available
  • Completes appropriate documentation of care coordination activities
  • Develops personally and professionally.
  • Utilizes clinical supervisor and staff to feedback regarding needs
  • Develops a plan to meet those needs
  • Fulfills licensing and accreditation requirements regarding professional development
  • Participates in process improvements
  • Identifies improvement opportunities
  • Assess the impact and quantification

Tests and Helps to Implement Solutions

Maintains awareness of funding issues that may affect client outcomes and completes all related tasks

Demonstrates the ability to advance evidence based practice by utilizing standards, guidelines and pathways for care delivery. Incorporates data and information into practice to continually improve care and practice so that patient outcomes are enhanced.

Promotes a culture of evidence based practice by participation in any of, but not limited to, the following activities:

  • Utilizing evidence based policies in clinical practice
  • Attends and participates in learning opportunities about evidence based practice
  • Membership in hospital or unit based practice council/research council

Evidence based practice project (e. g. policy development or poster presentation)

  • Journal club, journal article critique and circulation
  • Literature review
  • Development of standard/pathway/guideline for patient care
  • Presentation
  • Research study

Required Qualifications

  • If working with adolescents:
  • Has completed a minimum of 30 hours course work or one 3-credit semester college course in adolescent development
  • Has 150 hours of supervised experience as an adolescent counselor either as a student or staff member
  • 18 years of age or older (21 years old if primary position is in the Adolescent Residential Program)
  • No felony conviction or have been incarcerated as a result of a felony conviction in the last three years
  • Has not had a chemical use problem during the last two years
  • Licensed Alcohol & Drug Counselor (LADC) or temporary license under special considerations

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in human services, counseling, psychology, or other related

1-3 years preferred. Experience with specific age population.

Benefit Overview

Fairview offers a generous benefits package, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, PTO/vacation and Safe and Sick Time, tuition reimbursement, retirement and more! Please follow this link for additional information: fairview.org

Compensation Disclaimer

The posted compensation range corresponds to the minimum and maximum pay rates outlined in your union agreement for the respective job classifications at the time of job posting.

An individual's pay rate within this range may be influenced by various factors, including FTE, skills, knowledge, educational background, and qualifying experience as specified in the contract.

If your role is eligible for a sign-on bonus, the bonus program that is approved and in place at the time of offer, is what will be honored.

EEO Statement

EEO/Vet/Disabled: All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to any lawfully protected status

Requirements

Candidates must be a Licensed Alcohol & Drug Counselor (LADC) or hold a temporary license. A Bachelor's degree in human services, counseling, or psychology is preferred along with 1-3 years of relevant experience.

Qualifications

Education
Bachelor degree
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Substance Use Disorder CounselingClinical AssessmentTreatment PlanningTrauma-informed CareDischarge PlanningPatient AdvocacyCrisis InterventionInterdisciplinary Collaboration

Addiction Medicine — Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Substance Use / Addiction Counselor listings this role was benchmarked against, 50% are remote, 14% have no call, 60% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Minnesota is 98.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.4% of Minnesota clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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401k / retirement match
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CME allowance
41%
Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
23%
PSLF eligible
10%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.1this job 3.0
Better work-life than 30% of Substance Use / Addiction Counselor listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,008 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes weekends

Living in Minneapolis

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$365k
Typical market rent
$1,682/mo
Residents’ average commute
22 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
104.8
State income tax
Up to 9.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Fairview Health Services

Hospitals and Health Care
Minneapolis, MN
10,000+ employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical
Dental
Vision
PTO/Vacation
Safe and Sick Time
Tuition Reimbursement
Retirement