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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.
  
  

Experience

Basic Qualifications:

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

Education

• Master's 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

• Bilingual (English/Spanish) Level II required.
  
  

Notes

• Must successfully pass or have passed the bilingual test within the last twelve (12) months or be active in the QBS program.
• May be required to work Sat clinic 8:00 am to 1:30 pm.
  
  

COMPANY: KAISER

TITLE: Addiction Medicine Therapist - LMFT, LCSW, LPCC (Bilingual Spanish)

LOCATION: Los Angeles, California

REQNUMBER: 1356027

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.