professional opportunities that span the campus and community. University employees can choose from a wide range of professional training opportunities for career growth, skill development and lifelong learning and enjoy exclusive perks that include numerous retail and restaurant discounts, savings on local child care centers and special rates for performing arts events.
Primary Purpose of Organizational Unit
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education and research.
Patient care: We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
Education: We prepare tomorrow`s healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce.
Research: We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.
Position Summary
The Perinatal and Maternal Outpatient Therapist will provide gender-responsive, evidence-based services to pregnant and parenting adults with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders at the Horizons Orange County site located in Carrboro, NC. Responsibilities include conducting comprehensive clinical assessments, developing initial substance use and co-occurring treatment plans, documenting therapeutic encounters, providing brief counseling, and facilitating gender-responsive therapeutic groups within a multidisciplinary perinatal program.
Key responsibilities include:
- Promote treatment engagement, stabilization, and consultation in a gender-responsive substance use disorder treatment program
- Contribute to a group-focused treatment environment, including regular facilitation and co-facilitation of therapeutic and psychoeducational groups.
- Collaborate within an interdisciplinary care team to support coordinated, person-centered treatment.
*Required license: LCSW, LCAS, LMFT, or LCMHC, or provisional license
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in a Human Services discipline with coursework related to the area of assignment. Some positions may require certification to practice as a certified or licensed Clinical Social Worker as required by the North Carolina Social Work Certification Board.
Management Preferences
- Experience in treating co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders among women
- Knowledge of trauma-informed care and co-occurring disorder group treatment
- Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary treatment team
Campus Security Authority Responsibilities
Not Applicable.
Organization
The nation’s first public university is at the heart of what’s next, preparing a diverse student body to become creators, explorers, innovators and leaders in North Carolina and throughout the world. Carolina’s nationally recognized, innovative teaching, campus-wide spirit of inquiry and dedication to public service continue the legacy that began in 1795 when the University first opened its doors to students.
Here, in one of America's most beautiful college settings, we offer exceptional careers in richly diverse fields. Come explore what UNC-Chapel Hill has to offer you.
Undergraduate Enrollment: 19,117
Graduate/Professional Enrollment: 10,894
Total Student Enrollment: 30,011
Founded: 1789, as the first state university in the United States
Type of Institution: Public, four-year
Location: UNC is located in the heart of Chapel Hill, the best college town in America! It's a friendly town of about 40,000 in the geographical center of North Carolina. Chapel Hill is at the western point of the Research Triangle, an area of about one million people, comprised of Chapel Hill, the cities of Durham and Raleigh, and the Research Triangle Park, home of many corporate offices and scientific research centers. Carolina is about 30 miles from the state capital, Raleigh, and 20 minutes from Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
