Description
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 providea
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 care coordination
for high risk patients to improve access to psychiatric care and to prevent
unnecessary ED admissions and hospitalizations. In this role, you will have three main functions:
1. Resource and complex care coordination
2. Project
coordination/management for innovative approaches to deliver behavioral health
services to enhance/improve access to care
3. Direct clinical services, the
clinical social worker may provide direct mental health services including
urgent assessments, interventions, and recommendations to individual patients
and their families and recruitment for and coordination of group therapy
sessions
You will serve as a patient advocate, demonstrate problem solving skills to
resolve conflict and assist patients/families/caregivers to identify their
past and present coping skills. You will work collaboratively with the
patient, community resources, other providers, managed care operations, the
UCLA Health System, and health plans to implement, identify, coordinate, and
monitor options and services to meet at-risk patients' healthcare needs. You will aim to foster continuity of care and reduce unnecessary utilization of
healthcare services by coordinating and providing health services that meet
individuals' health needs. By connecting key individuals involved in the care
of the patient and decreasing fragmentation and duplication of care, the clinical
social worker is able to enhance the quality and cost effectiveness of the care
that is delivered in the outpatient setting. You will also be expected to keep current with
the professional mental healthcare knowledge and pursue further enhancement of
job-related knowledge. Multiple locations available, including Santa Monica, West LA, Marina Del Rey, Brentwood and Calabasas, as well as flexibility in schedule. *Position is flexible hybrid with up to 40% remote* Salary Range: $108,451 - $129,623 Annual
Qualifications
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
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University of California - Los Angeles Health
Nov 18, 2024