Chemical Dependency Recovery Counselor II - Associate Therapist

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

• Prefer bilingual Spanish speaker

Notes:

• Need to be able to work two evenings to 8pm


• May work Tues-Sat schedule