Licensed Clinical Social Worker-PC

Job DetailsJob Location: Torrance Campus - Torrance, CA 90502Position Type: FT 100% - 40 hours per week (FT Benefit)Salary Range: $80,000.00 - $108,000.00 SalaryABOUT US:
The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is an independent, non-profit biomedical research organization located in Torrance, California. In dozens of laboratories throughout the campus, researchers are working to unravel the mysteries of heart and kidney disease, cardiac complications in newborns, chronic lung disease, skin cancer, sickle cell disease, disorders of the autoimmune system, and much more. Many of these projects are collaborative in nature, involving experts from different areas of specialization. Our discoveries have prevented blindness in newborns, enabled premature infants with fragile lungs to breathe and allowed children with rare, often fatal diseases to grow up healthy and strong.
 

Licensed Clinical Social Worker Program Coordinator

The LCSW Program Coordinator will perform professional social work service to patients and families with complex medical and related psychosocial needs in the ambulatory care setting while supervising and supporting MFP MSW social workers and MFP MSW student interns delivering team-based intervention services through the Medical-Financial Partnership Program.

The LCSW Program Coordinator position coordinates and facilitates services delivered by the Medical-Financial Partnership Program – a two-generation economic and social support intervention for families -- in prenatal, perinatal, pediatric, and family medicine care clinical settings to:

1) implement Medical-Financial Partnership program activities

2) ensure continuity and coordination of services

3) optimize service delivery

4) minimize gaps in care for families

5) supervise more junior MSW team members and trainees

6) develop and strengthen key care team and community partnership relations, communications, and care linkages.

The LCSW Program Coordinator oversees and supports Medical-Financial Partnership services across care settings and departments.
The LCSW Program Coordinator will provide direct clinical support for the Medical-Financial Partnership interdisciplinary program to promote relationship-centered care for expecting parents and parents of young children, including for those with high psychosocial and health risk. The Program Coordinator will collaborate with others in the broader interdisciplinary health care team and promote prenatal, perinatal, and pediatric parent-child attachment and early relational health through delivery of services that address structural, economic, and social drivers of behavioral, mental, and overall health. The LCSW Program Coordinator also assists in the collection of relevant clinical measures for patient care, program support, and evaluation.
The LCSW Program Coordinator will provide daily clinical direct service in collaboration with the Medical-Financial Partnership team, and ongoing education and supervision of social work interns exercised in accordance with scope of practice guidelines. These activities include timely, complete, and accurate documentation and administrative processes related to educational roles, in coordination with other program staff and leadership.
The LCSW Program Coordinator may participate in the recruitment and placement of social work interns and maintains relationships with schools of social work to facilitate intern placement processes.
The LCSW Program Coordinator will supports facilitation of Medical-Financial Partnership multi-disciplinary team conferences to discuss and evaluate clients’ progress, and to develop care coordination and care transition plans.
The LCSW Program Coordinator will promote and maintain collaborative relationships to support service connections with various health care team members, including other social workers and providers in Los Angeles Department of Health Services Clinics where the Medical-Financial Partnership Program operates, and with service partner organizations and agencies in the community.

CLASSIFICATION STANDARDS:

Positions allocable to this class are assigned to ambulatory care setting and are characterized primarily by the highly specialized and difficult case assignments where the nature and extent of the patient’s needs has a significant impact on the functioning and lifestyle of patient and family. Incumbents in these positions are expected to function with minimal technical supervision as they provide clinical individualized treatment to accomplish changes in insight attitudes, and motivation of patients and family members to attain optimal functioning.
At the level, providing professional social work services to patients with significant psychosocial needs is not an incidental part of the workload, but is regularly performed with infrequent recourse to supervisory guidance. Social work practice at this level demands highly professional