Addiction Medicine Counselor II (Per Diem)

Company: Kaiser
Location: Mentone
Posted on: March 18, 2023

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
    • Master's degree in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology or other field related to behavioral health.License, Certification, Registration
      • Registered Associate Clinical Social Worker (California) OR Associate Professional Clinical Counselor Registration (California) OR Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (California)--Additional Requirements:
        • N/A--Preferred Qualifications:
          • N/A#MHEICJob Schedule: Job Category: Behavioral Health, Social Services & Spiritual Care

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