Clinical Social Worker II

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  JOB DUTIES
  

Under supervision of the Clinic Director and Director of the Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Research and Care (Easton Center), the Clinical Social Worker II will function as a team member of the Alzheimer’s Program that provides comprehensive psychosocial care to patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and their families and caregivers. Duties include, but are not limited to: * Provide case-management, assess psychosocial needs, and provide individual, group and family counseling. * Identify patients, respond to referrals and meet the wide range of needs of outpatients. * Provide referrals for economic, psychological, social, hospice and home health care as needed. * Chart all contacts in an electronic medical record. * Update and screen the Program’s resource referral network and website, select appropriate information, websites and resources to be made accessible to patients. * Attend medical clinics, identify patients and respond to comprehensive psychosocial needs. * Participate in Program development as required. * Participate in training of interns and volunteers. * Provide on-call service. * Administer and utilize the screening tools to develop appropriate interventions. * Work in a complex medical system and assist patients in navigating that system. * Orient new patients (in person and on the phone), walk-in patients and other visitors to the Program’s range of services, directing them toward the services that are the most appropriate to the patients’ particular situations and needs. * Develop a thorough familiarity with the health system and community resources in order to help patients locate what they need. * Participate in program evaluation and in determining the need for new services. * Conduct therapeutic support groups. * Participate in case conferences. * Experience and knowledge working with medical patients in outpatient and/or inpatient medical environments preferred. * LCSW degree and ability to travel to Memory Clinics owned by and affiliated with UCLA required. Pay Range: $89575.20 – $107010.00 Annually

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  JOB QUALIFICATIONS
  

Required: * Master’s degree in social work, possession of requirements necessary for application of licensure as a Clinical Social Worker, or equivalent combination of education/experience * Experience and knowledge working with medical patients in outpatient and/or inpatient medical environments * Knowledge of psychosocial and other rehabilitation related problems that arise in individuals with complex conditions at all phases of their disease and treatments. * Knowledge of psychosocial distress screening instruments. Ability to formulate assessments of psychosocial needs of individuals with complex conditions and frequent hospitalizations. Ability to put these skills to use. * Skills and knowledge to deliver psychosocial interventions in a medical setting. * Skills required to facilitate individual, group and family therapy interventions. * Skill in using computer database software to maintain and update resource referral network, all patient tracking, rehabilitation needs using software such as an Electronic Medical Record such as CareConnect with appropriate class work. * Ability to identify referral sources and to provide referrals for economic, psychosocial and home health care programs. * Experience working as a liaison with inpatient/outpatient units and community agencies. * Skill in completing and entering patient notes, tracking forms and consultation notes at appropriate intervals into database. * Ability to provide clinical knowledge to less experienced clinicians including developing didactic trainings, evaluating students, field instructor accreditation Preferred: * Experience and knowledge working with medical patients in outpatient and/or inpatient medical environments * Experience working as a liaison with inpatient/outpatient units and community agencies. * Bilingual in Spanish/English * Familiarity with CareConnect or other EPIC-based electronic medical record software * Knowledge, skill and ability to work autonomously using specific software programs such as Word, Excel, Outlook and any other programs for EMR. * Knowledge of bereavement process.