Typical Workday

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A typical work day may require an Addictions Counsellor to move throughout the community and in their own vehicle. Clients’ health conditions expose (sometimes, not always) an Addictions Counsellor to unsanitary conditions and illness due to lack of personal care from the client.

The office will be fast-paced and busy depending on the rate of scheduled and unscheduled clients that day. In the most extreme cases, an Addictions Counsellor may find themselves in highly stressful situations when de-escalating an immediate crisis (e.g., witnessing a client overdose, mentally unstable clients, and high suicide risk clients). A typical workday can initiate a high level of stress for the Addictions Counsellor worker as crises are unpredictable, and their severity varies from client to client.

In a typical workday, Addictions Counsellors may find themselves providing counselling support to 6 clients (not limited, sometimes less, sometimes more.

Addictions Counsellor during a typical workday manage and organize the case files of their clients making sure that they are in contact with appropriate third-party services, doctors or clinicians.

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