Addiction Medicine Therapist - LMFT, LCSW, LPCC

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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.

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 Social Work, Psychology, Sociology or other field related to behavioral health.

License, Certification, Registration

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

Additional Requirements:

• May consider LCSW, with a Masters Degree in Social Work, job code 16565, for this position.

Preferred Qualifications:

• N/A

Notes:

• 2 Evenings per week (7:30 PM)