(Urgent Search) Chemical Dependency Recovery Counselor II - Associate Therapist

Company: Kaiser
Location: Fontana
Posted on: July 16, 2025

Job Description:

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. Notes: - Works 4/10 or 5/8 days per week Mon- Sat. - Potential to work Sat and some days remote, after probationary period. - Working with addiction medicine patients, all ages. - Case management and crisis response. PrimaryLocation : California,Fontana,Fontana Medical Offices 5 - Behavioral Health HoursPerWeek : 40 Shift : Day Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun WorkingHoursStart : 12:01 AM WorkingHoursEnd : 11:59 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 : Fontana Addiction Medicine - Mental Hlth/Psychiatry-RegClin - 0806 Travel : Yes, 15 % 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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