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Posted: 31-Dec-24
Location: Malibu, California
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Internal Number: 145483967
Provide positive care solutions within an award-winning health system. Grow your career while enhancing quality of life for those most in need. Leverage your expertise to make a real difference in the community. You can do all this and more at UCLA Health.
You will provide a range of services to multidisciplinary teams with emphasis on outpatient practices of the UCLA Health-Behavioral Health Associates serving adult, geriatric populations, child and adolescents. Duties may include psychosocial assessment; care coordination, consultation to the team, individual, family or group psychotherapeutic treatment; liaison with community agencies; treatment plan documentation; and disposition planning and advocacy. You will serve as a resource to providers, patients, care coordinators, and performs complex
*Position is flexible hybrid with up to 40% remote and requires flexibility in schedule*
Salary Range: $108,451 - $129,623 Annual
We’re seeking an experienced CA Licensed Clinical Social Worker with:
- MSW
- Experience and skill interacting with health care providers in a multidisciplinary setting
- 2-3 years of relevant experience
- Working knowledge of general theoretical and clinical models
- Ability to develop effective rapport and working therapeutic alliances with patients
- Skill in writing clear and complete clinical notes and summaries of clinical evaluations
- Skills and experiences in documenting/charting to ensure current and accurate medical records are entered and documented in patient files in accordance with established Medical Records policies and procedures
- Knowledge of clinical social worker ethics and scope of practice
- Ability to perform a complete mental status exam and recognize changes in mental status
- Ability to establish and maintain effective and mutually respectful relationships with professionals and support staff
- Knowledge of pertinent current community resources, including income maintenance, mental health treatment, special education, residential and vocational supports
- Ability to provide and maintain appropriate coordination of care with existing providers and/or variety of community agencies and demonstrate assertiveness, persistence, and diplomacy as an advocate for the patient
- Ability to triage high risk behavior of patients
- Knowledge of community resources for higher level of care or specialty care
- Knowledge of psychosocial factors related to all life stages; expertise in at least one stage
- Ability to communicate clearly and therapeutically with patients and families regarding diagnosis, progress, treatment plan recommendations
- Ability to establish and maintain effective and mutually respectful relationships with professionals and support staff
- Ability to assess and respond appropriately in a timely fashion to the safety needs of patients, family and staff
- Knowledge of child and adult abuse and neglect reporting laws and procedures
- Knowledge of scope of practice of relevant other disciplines including psychiatry, psychology, and psychiatric nurse Practitioners.
- Ability to recognize complex clinical situations and seek and apply consultation of supervision when needed
- Ability to respond calmly and effectively in crisis situations
- Demonstrated resourcefulness, effective written and verbal communications and diplomacy
- Demonstrated leadership and organizational abilities with previous demonstration of consistency, independence, flexibility, initiative and creativity
- Skill at writing documentation that is timely, meaningful, complete, legible, grammatically correct, concise and consistent with legal and administrative standards
- Ability to use a computer for electronic mail and word processing, internet access to University policies and procedures, and community resources for patients/families
