Job Summary:

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

Essential Responsibilities:

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• 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

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

Education

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

License, Certification, Registration

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• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (California) OR Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (California) OR Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (California)
  
  

Additional Requirements:

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• May consider LMFT, with a Masters Degree in a Behavioral Health field, job code 65340, for this position.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

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• N/A
  
  

Notes:

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• Will consider an associate therapist. This position will cover Orange and Laguna Hills locations. Hours will vary depending on coverage needed.