Job Description
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:
PrimaryLocation : California,Laguna Hills,Laguna Hills Mental Health
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
WorkingHoursStart : 08:00 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 08:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : B11-PSC|NUHW|NUHW Psych Social Chapter
Job Level : Entry Level
Job Category : Behavioral Health, Social Services & Spiritual Care
Department : Rehabilitation Pavilion - Chemical Dependency-Reg Clin - 0806
Travel : No
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