Addiction Medicine Therapist - LMFT, LCSW, LPCC - Sylmar - Flex Schedule

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

• 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.

• Minimum of two (2) years post graduate relevant supervised addiction medicine therapy experience within the last five (5) years required.

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

• Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (California) OR Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (California) OR Licensed Clinical Social Worker (California)

• May consider LCSW, with a Masters Degree in Social Work, job code 16565, for this position.

• N/A

Notes:

• 2 Evenings per week (7:30 PM)