Chemical Dependency Recovery Counselor III-Per Diem (ID: 1237251)

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.

Qualifications - External
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 a Social Work, Psychology, Sociology or other field related to behavioral health required.
License, Certification, Registration
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (California) OR Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (California) OR Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (California)
Additional Requirements:
May consider LMFT, with a Masters Degree in a Behavioral Health field, job code 65340, for this position.
Preferred Qualifications:
N/A
Notes:

Prefer some evening and weekend availability.