Addiction Medicine Therapist - Laguna Hills, United States - Kaiser Permanente

    Kaiser Permanente
    Kaiser Permanente Laguna Hills, United States

    1 month ago

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    Description
    : 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.
  • 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:

    ·May require half days on Saturday and 1 evening or 2 evenings a week until 8:00pm.

    ·Will cover our Addiction Med location in Orange as needed.