Substance Abuse Counselor

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

• N/A.

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

Notes:

- Five-day work week. Must be able to work at least two evenings to 7pm, may work half day Saturday.