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Daymark Recovery Services
Lexington, North Carolina

Intensive In-Home Human Service Counselor

CounselorFull-Time

Listed compensation

$23.07-$24.03/hr

The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed

Ask the employer about the work setting, call expectations, weekend coverage and time off.

Posted 1mo ago

Job Description

Job DetailsJob Location: Davidson Center - Lexington, NC 27292Company Mission Statement: Our mission is to inspire and empower people to seek and maintain recovery and health. Daymark Recovery Services, Inc. is a mission driven, comprehensive community provider of culturally sensitive mental health and substance abuse services. Comprehensive

Benefits

Package: Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance Health Spending Account Company-Paid Life Insurance Short Term Disability 401(k) Paid Holidays Paid Vacation and Sick Leave Employee Assistant Program Referral Bonus Opportunities Extensive Internal Training Program Pay Scale: $23.07/hr.-$24.03/hr.

Summary: Under indirect supervision, provides, oversees, and/or administers a wide range of psychosocial evaluation/assessment, diagnostic, counseling therapy, crisis intervention services in a high-intensity clinical environment which requires a high degree of independent decision-making.

May be asked to lead, or train lower level counselors, students and/or interns engaged in therapeutic patient care activities, as appropriate to the individual position. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Provides individual, group and family therapy and subsequent paperwork.

Participates in interdisciplinary treatment planning, case support activities Provides crisis intervention consultation to all members of the team Participates in peer review process for therapists All other duties as assigned by supervisor Qualification Requirements: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience: Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Counseling or other Human Services field; Qualified Professional (QP) designation required. AND one year of experience working with children.

Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

Provides comprehensive psychosocial evaluations, diagnostic assessments, and therapeutic counseling services in a high-intensity clinical environment. Participates in interdisciplinary treatment planning and provides crisis intervention consultation to the clinical team.

Requirements

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Counseling, or a related Human Services field. Candidates must hold a Qualified Professional (QP) designation and have at least one year of experience working with children.

Key Skills

Diagnostic assessmentIndividual therapyGroup therapyClinical documentationInterdisciplinary collaboration

Counselor Career Context

The cost-of-living index for North Carolina is 94.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$49k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $52k in an average-cost state. 59.2% of North Carolina clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Of the 50 active Counselor listings this role was benchmarked against, 48% are remote, 36% have no call, 68% require no weekends.

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks25 jobs · 21 employers

401k / retirement match
96% this job
CME allowance
36%
Sign-on bonus
16%
Loan repayment
12%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.0this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Mental Health Counseling listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 717 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Lexington

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$276k
Typical market rent
$1,578/mo
Residents’ average commute
26 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
92.0
State income tax
Up to 4.8%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Winston-Salem, NC metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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About Daymark Recovery Services

Mental Health Care
Concord, NC
501-1,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical Insurance
Dental
Vision
Health Spending Account
Company-Paid Life Insurance
Short Term Disability
401(k)
Paid Holidays