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LCSW, LPCC, LMFT CDRC III, Addiction Medicine, PT 20 hours, Lancaster

Social WorkerNo weekendsPart-Time

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Job Description

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

N/A

Notes

  • May work in other AV MOBs within the service area.
  • Position might include weekends.

Key Responsibilities

Provides chemical dependency services, psychotherapy, and crisis intervention to patients and their families. Conducts assessments, develops treatment plans, and facilitates individual and group counseling sessions.

Requirements

Requires a Master's degree in a behavioral health-related field and a valid California license as an LCSW, LPCC, or LMFT. Candidates must have at least two years of post-graduate supervised addiction medicine therapy experience.

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Treatment planningPsychosocial assessmentClinical case conferencingIndividual counselingAdolescent therapyTriageClinical mentorship

Addiction Medicine — Social Worker Career Context

Of the 50 active Addiction Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 44% are remote, 14% have no call, 48% require no weekends.

Addiction Medicine pay on WeekdayDoc is down 5.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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  • No weekends

Living in Lancaster

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$433k
Typical market rent
$2,420/mo
Residents’ average commute
31 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
113.6
State income tax
Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.