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Associate Therapist Addiction Medicine - West Covina

Kaiser
Posted a day ago, valid for a year
Location

West Covina, CA 91790, US

Salary

$60,000 - $72,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The job involves providing Chemical Dependency services to adults, adolescents, and significant others under supervision, with essential responsibilities including patient call triage, crisis response, and conducting assessments.
  • Candidates must have a minimum of two years of supervised experience in chemical dependency treatment, although completion of a KP addiction medicine internship may be considered in lieu of experience.
  • A Master's Degree in a related field such as Social Work or Psychology is required, along with an Associate Professional Clinical Counselor Registration or equivalent certification in California.
  • The position is full-time, with a work schedule of 40 hours per week, primarily during the day from Monday to Saturday, and is categorized as entry-level in the Behavioral Health field.
  • Salary details are not provided, but the position is part of Kaiser Permanente's commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce.
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.
Preferred Qualifications:

  • N/A

PrimaryLocation : California,West Covina,West Covina Garvey CDRP/MH
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : Mon - Sat
WorkingHoursStart : 08:30 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 : West Covina Addiction Medicine - Chemical Dep CDRP-O/P - 0806
Travel : No
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status.

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