Chemical Dependency Recovery Counselor III - Part Time

About the role

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

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.

Requirements

• Minimum of two (2) years post graduate relevant supervised addiction medicine therapy experience within the last five (5) years required.
• Masters Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology or other field related to behavioral health.
• Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (California) OR Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (California) OR Licensed Clinical Social Worker (California)

Qualifications

• N/A

Skills

• Adaptable
• Compassionate
• Good listener
• Proactive
• Results Driven
• Versatile

Benefits

Our compensation and benefits are designed to help you and your family stay healthy and thrive in and beyond work.

Culture

We offer a mental health environment that's unique both in the way we treat our patients and in the way we support our health care professionals. Here, we practice evidence-based care in a team setting that’s focused on the needs of the individual, the family and the population as a whole. This gives your patients the opportunity to work towards achieving their physical, mental, and behavioral health goals. On our teams, we hold social justice as a shared value and are committed to addressing and eliminating stigma associated with mental health and addiction. Working as part of a team also helps support your own career growth while you provide high-quality strengths-based, brief, solution-focused, and episodic mental health care.

Cultural Diversity

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We believe that a diverse workforce leads to better decision-making, innovation, and improved patient care. We actively seek to recruit and retain a diverse pool of candidates, including individuals from underrepresented groups, and we strive to create an environment where all employees can thrive.