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.