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Associate Therapist - Addiction Medicine - AMFT, ACSW, APCC (Bilingual Required)
Mental health is an essential component of total health. As mental health professionals, we’re on the front lines every day, using the latest advances to help those in need. If you share our passion for care and our commitment to helping those around us, you’ll have the resources you need to make a real difference. Our services include adult and child therapy as well as help with addiction and eating disorders.
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Job Type:Standard
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Job Level:Entry Level
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Travel:No
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Associate Therapist - Addiction Medicine - AMFT, ACSW, APCC (Bilingual Required)
Provides Chemical Dependency services to adults, adolescents and significant others of CD patients under supervision.
- 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.
- 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.
- Masters Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology or other field related to behavioral health.
- Associate Professional Clinical Counselor Registration (California) OR Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (California) OR Registered Associate Clinical Social Worker (California)
- 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.
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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.
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