Chemical Dependency Recovery Counselor III - Full Time

Kaiser Permanente
Los Angeles, CA

Job Summary:
Provides Chemical Dependency services and psychotherapy to adults, adolescents, significant others of CD patients, and families under indirect supervision.Essential Responsibilities:

  • Answers and triages patient calls for information, Tx services, general CD advice. Responds to and appropriately handles crisis calls.
  • Provides higher level assessment (e.g. other, non-CD, MH diagnoses; danger to self or others; non-CD crisis evaluations; emotional/family dysfunction).
  • Performs intake and psychosocial assessments.
  • Develops and presents treatment plans to CDRP/S treatment team for recommendations, revisions and approval.
  • Participates in clinical case conferences.
  • Conducts chemical dependency focused educational lectures.
  • Provides general chemical dependency counseling to include individual and group counseling services.
  • Provides Adolescent, Significant Other, Family and Multi-Family therapy as assigned.
  • Provides case management services to include resource and referral coordination.
  • May perform mentor functions/clinical direction to CDRP/S Counselors I and II, student interns, licensure candidates and Alcohol or Drug Certificate candidates.
  • Other duties as assigned.
Basic Qualifications:Experience
  • Minimum of two (2) years post graduate relevant supervised addiction medicine therapy experience within the last five (5) years required.
Education
  • Masters Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology or other field related to behavioral health.
License, Certification, Registration
  • Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (California) OR Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (California) OR Licensed Clinical Social Worker (California)
Additional Requirements:
  • May consider LCSW, with a Masters Degree in Social Work, job code 16565, for this position.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Spanish bilingual preferred.

Notes:

- Must be able to work two evenings to 7pm, may work Saturday half-day.

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