Associate Post Masters Mental Health Fellow, Addiction Medicine & Recovery Servi

Associate Post Masters Mental Health Fellow, Addiction Medicine & Recovery Services

Location: Northern California Mental Health Training Program – San Francisco, CA (primary location: 1201 Fillmore St., San Francisco, CA 94115). This is a one-year, temporary position with benefits, pertaining to the Northern California Mental Health Training Programs.

Overview

This position provides advanced training and additional clinical supervision to Associate Marriage & Family Therapists, Associate Clinical Social Workers and Associate Professional Clinical Counselors (AMFT/ACSW/APCC) who have prior experience in a mental health setting. It meets the requirements for supervised training toward licensure and follows California Board of Behavioral Sciences guidelines. Primary supervision is provided by Licensed Mental Health Professionals.

Essential Responsibilities

• Provide psychotherapy to patients and co-facilitate family and/or group therapy. Actively participate in assigned clinical supervision.
• Weekly minimum of two (2) hours of individual supervision; two (2) hours of didactic training; and two (2) hours of case conference/group supervision.
• Participate in a minimum of thirty-two (32) hours annually of outside community partnership projects.
• Attend workshops and regional seminars; participate in staff meetings, case conferences, and other staff functions. Facilitate community outreach and referrals as needed.
• Maintain confidential patient files/records in a timely manner and comply with regional/local policies and procedures.
• Comply with Code of Ethics, state laws, and department guidelines for delivery of mental health services.
• Perform team-specific duties under direct supervision, including Adult Team, Child/Family Team, Chemical Dependency, Behavioral Medicine, or others (as applicable).
• Provide clinical services across various teams and program levels (e.g., assessment, individual and group therapy, IOP support, bilingual therapy in Spanish, case management, chronic pain management, eating disorders counseling, and related duties).
• Engage in additional duties as assigned.

Secondary Functions

Track – Addiction Medicine Recovery Services; hours/days may vary.

Basic Qualifications

Experience

• Successful completion of pre-master’s internships in mental health settings.
• Note: Applicants with more than 2000 hours of supervision toward licensure will not be accepted in the first training year by program start date.

Education

• Master’s Degree in Social Work, Social Welfare (clinical track) or Clinical/Counseling Psychology, or related field from an accredited institution by program start date.

License, Certification, Registration

• Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (California) required at hire OR Registered Associate Clinical Social Worker (California) required at hire OR Associate Professional Clinical Counselor Registration (California) required at hire

Additional Requirements

• Competence in: Mental Status Evaluation; Mandated Reporting; Suicide/Homicide/Danger Assessment; Ethics and Confidentiality; DSM; Theories and Practices of Psychotherapy; Personality and Psychological Development; Domestic Violence; Chemical Dependency.
• Demonstrated experience in providing individual, family and/or group psychotherapies.
• Professional maturity and ethical integrity for professional responsibilities.
• Commitment to quality of service, teamwork, and participation in a multidisciplinary clinic.
• Ability to complete multiple tasks/objectives in a timely manner.
• Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience and/or training with Adult and/or Child and Adolescent, Chemical Dependency, IOP or bilingual clinical therapy populations.
• Experience with psychosocial diagnoses and standard psychotherapeutic services.
• Experience in Clinical Case Management and group therapy.
• Theoretical background in cognitive, emotional, interpersonal functioning, abnormal psychology, and major schools of psychotherapy.

Equal opportunity employer: Kaiser Permanente is committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristics.

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