Chemical Dependency Recovery Counselor III
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Job overview
Provides chemical dependency services and psychotherapy to adults, adolescents, significant others of patients, and families under indirect supervision. The counselor handles patient inquiries and crisis calls, conducts assessments, develops treatment plans, and provides individual, group, family, and adolescent counseling. The role also includes case management, clinical case conferences, educational lectures, and may involve mentoring junior counselors and trainees.
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Job Summary:
Provides Chemical Dependency services and psychotherapy to adults, adolescents, significant others of CD patients, and families under indirect supervision.
Essential Responsibilities:
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Answers and triages patient calls for information, Tx services, general CD advice. Responds to and appropriately handles crisis calls.
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Provides higher level assessment (e.g. other, non-CD, MH diagnoses; danger to self or others; non-CD crisis evaluations; emotional/family dysfunction).
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Performs intake and psychosocial assessments.
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Develops and presents treatment plans to CDRP/S treatment team for recommendations, revisions and approval.
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Participates in clinical case conferences.
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Conducts chemical dependency focused educational lectures.
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Provides general chemical dependency counseling to include individual and group counseling services.
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Provides Adolescent, Significant Other, Family and Multi-Family therapy as assigned.
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Provides case management services to include resource and referral coordination.
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May perform mentor functions/clinical direction to CDRP/S Counselors I and II, student interns, licensure candidates and Alcohol or Drug Certificate candidates.
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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:
- N/A
Preferred Qualifications:
- N/A
Notes:
- CDRC III position will include an Intensive Care Coordination assignment with an clinic schedule of M-F, 830?1700.
COMPANY: KAISER
TITLE: Chemical Dependency Recovery Counselor III
LOCATION: Downey, California
REQNUMBER: 1452827
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.
How this job compares
Set against the 566 open Psychotherapist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$60–85K/yr315 salary ranges
- US median$35–50/hr116 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 56 open Psychotherapist jobs in California and 566 across the US. 30% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Kaiser Permanente (this employer)38 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Psychotherapist postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (107 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a master's degree; 284 of the 566 open Psychotherapist jobs (50%) ask for a master's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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