Job Summary:

Provides Chemical Dependency services to adults, adolescents and significant others of CD patients under supervision.

Essential Responsibilities:

Under the direction of a licensed clinical supervisor performs the following:

Answers and triages patient calls for information, Tx services, general CD advice.

Responds to and appropriately handles crisis calls.

Identifies need for 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.

May provide Adolescent, Significant Other, Family and Multi-Family therapy only under licensed supervision as assigned.

Provides case management services to include resource and referral coordination.

May perform mentor functions to Alcohol or Drug Certificate candidates as assigned.

Other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications:

Experience

Minimum of two (2) years supervised and related (may include adolescent, adult, family, co-dependent) work experience in the field of chemical dependency treatment. Will consider successful completion of a KP addiction medicine internship in lieu of experience.

Education

Masters Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology or other field related to behavioral health.

License, Certification, Registration

Associate Professional Clinical Counselor Registration (California) OR Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (California) OR Registered Associate Clinical Social Worker (California)

Additional Requirements:

Once hired as an Associate, an employee will be offered and must work a schedule that would accumulate at least half of the required supervisory hours annually.

Upon completion of supervised hours, the employee must obtain state licensure within two and one-half (2.5) years. If hired as a license-eligible employee (i.e. has completed all clinical hours), the employee has two and one-half (2.5) years from their date of hire to complete state licensure.

Preferred Qualifications:

N/A

COMPANY: KAISER

TITLE: Addiction Medicine Therapist - Associate licensed - Full Time - Laguna Hills

LOCATION: Laguna Hills, California

REQNUMBER: 1291005

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.