**Substance Use Crisis Counselor**

**Description**

**University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus**

**Department: Department of Psychiatry**

**Job Title:** **Substance Use Crisis Counselor**

**Position #00847665: - Requisition #:** **39808**

**Job Summary:**

**This position is grant-funded for a 2-year timeframe.**

Key Responsibilities:

+ Provide timely, recovery-oriented follow-up to adults after substance-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and other behavioral health crises.
+ Conduct telephonic and virtual outreach to support engagement during the high-risk period following discharge.
+ Act as a subject matter expert for complex adult behavioral health and substance use follow-up cases.
+ Rapidly assess complex behavioral health situations and develop appropriate intervention, de-escalation, and referral responses.
+ Provide suicide, substance use, and other behavio...