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Behavioral Health Counselor

GLIDE
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California, USA
Aug 03, 2026
Healthcare Nonprofit

Job Description

Job Description
About Glide
GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice, dedicated to fighting systemic injustices, creating pathways out of poverty and crisis, and transforming lives. Through its integrated comprehensive services, advocacy initiatives, and inclusive community, GLIDE empowers individuals, families, and children to achieve stability and to thrive. GLIDE is on the forefront of addressing some of society’s most pressing issues, including poverty, housing and homelessness, and racial and social justice. GLIDE’s mission is to create a radically inclusive, just, and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization

Summary
The Behavioral Health Counselor’s (BHC) direct focus is to provide proactive, low-threshold clinical support, counseling, and case management services to participants experiencing mental health issues, substance use disorders, and/or social isolation. The BHC will work with a Certified Peer SUD Specialist to provide immediate triage, culturally responsive therapy, and facilitate therapeutic groups within this trusted, community-based space. The role is central to providing linkages to GLIDE’s continuum of care, with a specialized focus on overdose prevention, Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) navigation, Contingency Management, and supporting holistic recovery. This position will require a flexible schedule to meet community needs, including some evening and weekend hours. 
 
This is a grant-funded position and therefore is contingent on the agency's continued support at a full level of funding.
Essential Duties and Responsibilites
  • BHC will coordinate and manage a minimum of 20 active case management participants at any given time, within a professional, trauma-informed, and healing-centered lens, efficient, client-centered, and equitable framework to help clients achieve their best version of self, wellness, and autonomy.
  • BHC to identify participants’ strengths and barriers (risks and protective factors) to determine baseline functioning, to assist participant in reducing barriers or challenges, and connect to internal and external resources and services.
  • In collaboration with the Peer SUD Specialist, provide focused navigation and advocacy support to connect participants to GLIDE’s internal services, including MOUD navigation, contingency management, HIV/HepC/STI testing, and housing stability programs, as well as external community partners.
  • Complete initial intakes, brief assessments, individualized service plans, and timely progress notes. Enter all documentation into required database systems (ex: Salesforce) within two (2) business days.
  • Develop and facilitate a minimum of one (1) one-hour therapeutic groups or health education workshops daily, as part of the program's 20 hours of weekly programming. Groups will include wellness check-ins, recovery groups (e.g., harm reduction, 12-step alternatives), and workshops on topics pertinent to our focal population, such as overdose prevention, mental health, and trauma. Ensure groups are inclusive, culturally resonant, and promote a peer-led model.
  • Serve as the primary clinical liaison for warm hand-offs from GLIDE staff. Provide rapid clinical consultation and accept referrals for participants identified during intake as needing behavioral health or substance use treatment support.
  • Participate in mobile outreach events, providing pop-up behavioral health support and engagement in community settings across the City.
  • Cultivate and maintain supportive, therapeutic relationships with participants to provide continuous recovery and stabilization support, utilizing a trauma-informed, healing-centered, and harm reduction framework.
  • Adhere to professional boundaries, ethics, and all laws regarding HIPAA, confidentiality, and contractual agreements. 
  • Meet professional obligations through efficient work habits, collaboration, and active participation in staff meetings, case conferences, in-service trainings, and individual/group supervision.
  • In collaboration with your direct Supervisor, complete a minimum of 15 assigned hours of professional or skill development each year; First Aid/CPR is required, but not included in the minimum hours required. 
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