Addiction Medicine Therapist - Laguna Hills, United States - Kaiser

Description

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.

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;

• This is a dual dx program. Experience in mental health and Addiction preferred. Bilingual preferred
• wo evenings required or 1 evening and 1/2 day on Saturday. My cover Addiction Medicine services at the Orange location on occasion.

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 : Individual Contributor
Job Category : Behavioral Health, Social Services & Spiritual Care
Department : Laguna Hills Office - Chemical Dependency-Reg Clin - 0806
Travel : Yes, 20 % of the Time
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