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Associate Therapist – Addiction Medicine – AMFT, ACSW, APCC (Bilingual Required)

Website Kaiser Permanente

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
  • Masters Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology or other field related to behavioral health.
License, Certification, Registration
  • Associate Professional Clinical Counselor Registration (California) OR Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (California) OR Registered Associate Clinical Social Worker (California)
Additional Requirements:
  • 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.
  • Bilingual (English/Spanish) Level II required.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • N/A

Notes:

  • If Saturday clinic reopens (8am to 1pm) Saturday shift will be required
  • Must successfully pass or have passed the bilingual test (within the last 12 months), or be active in the QBS program.
Primary Location: California,Los Angeles,1505 N. Edgemont Medical OfficesScheduled Weekly Hours: 40Shift: DayWorkdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, SatWorking Hours Start: 08:00 AMWorking Hours End: 08:30 PMJob Schedule: Full-timeJob Type: StandardWorker Location: FlexibleEmployee Status: RegularEmployee Group/Union Affiliation: B11-PSC|NUHW|NUHW Psych Social ChapterJob Level: Entry LevelDepartment: Edgemont MOB – Chemical Dependency-Reg Clin – 0806Pay Range: $42.59 – $51.8 / yearTravel: No

To apply for this job please visit www.kaiserpermanentejobs.org.