CASAC Addiction Counselor
Listed compensation
$19.45-$37.62/hr
The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday
Ask the employer about call expectations, weekend coverage, nights and shift pattern and time off.
Job Description
Conifer Park is looking for novel clinicians who are ready to change lives in our licensed facility located in Syracuse, NY. We provide outpatient treatment, with cutting edge support for those struggling with substance-use-disorder (SUD).
A Conifer Park clinician provides comprehensive clinical case management services that include: assessments; individual, group and family treatment; treatment plan coordination; discharge planning; and intervention with client support systems, including social service programs and managed care.
5,000k Sign-on bonus eligible
Responsibilities
Provides/ensures comprehensive evaluation of patient's functioning as defined by facility policy and procedures.
Coordinates the development and implementation of the multidisciplinary treatment plan; coordinates treatment plan review; performs these activities within established time frames.
Documents patient progress and own interventions in case record. Need to remain within time frames of regulatory requirements.
Provides individual, group and family treatment (psycho-education, life skills) as identified in patient treatment plans and requested by program director.
Performs utilization review, provides progress reports and develop aftercare plans in conjunction with referring persons/agencies, EAPs and managed care/insurance entities.
Participates in quality improvement activities facilitating innovation
Maintains professional competence in their discipline and treatment specialty areas of addiction medicine, through continuing education and supervision.
Schedule: Full Mondays - Fridays 7:00am- 3:30pm
Requirements
Qualification Requirements
- Required qualifications are CASAC-T, CASAC certification or LMSW, LMHC
- Experience working specifically with outpatient substance abuse counseling preferred
- Bilingual Language Speakers Preferred
Benefits
- Sign On Bonus - $5,000k
- 401k Plan
- Health, Vision and Dental Insurance
Generous Paid Time Off
- We are an equal opportunity employer according to all current standards.
- INDMP
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Addiction Medicine — Counselor Career Context
Of the 50 active Substance Use / Addiction Counselor listings this role was benchmarked against, 38% are remote, 36% have no call, 60% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for New York is 107.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$59k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $55k in an average-cost state. 64.6% of New York clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates CASAC Addiction Counselor at Conifer Park a 8.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as excellent. This places the position in the top 5% in Substance Use / Addiction Counselor — ranked against 1,008 active Substance Use / Addiction Counselor listings on WeekdayDoc.
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- On-site
Living in Syracuse
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $219k
- Typical market rent
- $1,541/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 18 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 95.7
- State income tax
- Up to 10.9%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Syracuse, NY metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.