Job Summary
Substance Abuse Professional Trainee (SUDPT) will attend and participate in
the education and training that is required to become a licensed Substance Use Disorder
Professional Trainee Certification in the state of Washington. Trainee will follow an individual
training plan that will include all the required hours needed to complete SUDPT education under an
assigned licensed SUDP supervisor.
SUDPT will provide services in a Level 1 Outpatient/Level 2.1 Intensive Outpatient. Individual’s
services functions performed by SUDPT include screening for eligibility, intake to programs,
orientation to program goals and rules, client assessments, group counseling, crisis intervention,
client education, referrals, report, and record keeping, consultation with other professionals in
regard to client treatment services, and ADIS. SUDPT will work closely with the courts, with Drug
Court participants, and also with Whatcom County Jail for clients needing inpatient treatment.