Associate Licensed - Addiction Medicine - CDRC II - FT - Lancaster - experience with Substance Abuse treatment, at Kaiser

Provides Chemical Dependency services to adults, adolescents and significant others of CD patients under supervision.

• 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.

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• Masters Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology or other field related to behavioral health.

• Associate Professional Clinical Counselor Registration (California) OR Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (California) OR Registered Associate Clinical Social Worker (California)

• Once hired as an Associate, an employee will be offered and must work a schedule that would accumulate at least half of the required supervisory hours annually.
• Upon completion of supervised hours, the employee must obtain state licensure within two and one-half (2.5) years. If hired as a license-eligible employee (i.e. has completed all clinical hours), the employee has two and one-half (2.5) years from their date of hire to complete state licensure.

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Notes:

- May work in other AV MOBs within the service area.

- Position may include weekends.

 

PrimaryLocation : California,Lancaster,Lancaster Mental Health
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun
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 : Entry Level
Job Category : Behavioral Health, Social Services & Spiritual Care
Department : 20Th St./Antelope Valley MOB - Chemical Dependency-Reg Clin - 0806
Travel : Yes, 50 % of the Time
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