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General Information

Work Location: Malibu, USA
Onsite or Remote
Flexible Hybrid
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm, may vary
Posted Date
12/30/2024
Salary Range: $108451 - 129623 Annually
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
21408

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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


Job 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

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.