[Urgent Search] Chemical Dependency Recovery Counselor III

Company: Kaiser
Location: Lynwood
Posted on: June 25, 2025

Job Description:

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. Basic Qualifications: Experience - Minimum of two (2) years post graduate relevant supervised addiction medicine therapy experience within the last five (5) years required. Education - Master's Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology or other field related to behavioral health. License, Certification, Registration - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (California) OR Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (California) OR Licensed Clinical Social Worker (California) Additional Requirements: - May consider LCSW, with a Master's Degree in Social Work, job code 16565, for this position. Preferred Qualifications: - Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred. Notes: - Will need to work two (2) nights to 8:00 pm. - Might need to work Saturday half day. PrimaryLocation : California,Los Angeles,Culver Marina Medical Offices HoursPerWeek : 40 Shift : Day Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat WorkingHoursStart : 08:00 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 : Individual Contributor Job Category : Behavioral Health, Social Services & Spiritual Care Department : Culver Marina MOB - Chemical Dependency-Reg Clin - 0806 Travel : Yes, 10 % of the Time Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status. For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: - Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures. - Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments. - Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information and other confidential KP information (including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic assets, medical instruments, or devices; (4) controlled substances regulated by federal law or potentially subject to diversion.

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