Chemical Dependency Recovery Counselor III - FT - Downey

Company : Kaiser Permanente

Location : Downey, CA, 90241

Posted Date : 1 November 2025

Job Type : Full Time

Category : Community & Social Service

Occupation : Counselor

Job Details

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

Masters degree in a Social Work, Psychology, Sociology or other field related to behavioral health required.

License, Certification, Registration

Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (California) OR Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (California) OR Licensed Clinical Social Worker (California)

Additional Requirements:

Preferred Qualifications:

PrimaryLocation : California,Downey,Orchard Medical Offices Building AHoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Variable
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 : Orchard MOB #A - Chemical Dependency-Reg Clin - 0806
Travel : Yes, 10 % of the Time
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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.