What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chemical Dependency Recovery Counselor III position at Kaiser Permanente?
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.
Qualifications:
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 a Social Work, Psychology, Sociology or other field related to behavioral health required.
License, Certification, Registration
- Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (California) OR Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (California) OR Licensed Clinical Social Worker (California)
Additional Requirements:
- N/A
Preferred Qualifications:
- N/A
Notes:
- Candidate may be required to cover Saturday clinic.
Salary : $50 - $63