Licensed Clinical Social Worker-PC

LUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA•Torrance, CA

7d•$80,000 - $108,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is seeking a Licensed Clinical Social Worker Program Coordinator (LCSW-PC). This role involves performing professional social work services for patients and families with complex medical and psychosocial needs in an ambulatory care setting. The LCSW-PC will supervise and support MSW social workers and student interns within the Medical-Financial Partnership Program, a two-generation intervention focused on economic and social support for families. Key responsibilities include implementing program activities, ensuring continuity of care, optimizing service delivery, minimizing gaps in care, supervising junior staff and trainees, and developing partnerships with care teams and community organizations. The position provides direct clinical support, promotes relationship-centered care, and addresses social drivers of health. The LCSW-PC will also assist in collecting clinical measures for evaluation and provide ongoing education and supervision to social work interns, ensuring timely and accurate documentation. Collaboration with schools of social work for intern placement and facilitation of multi-disciplinary team conferences are also part of the role. The LCSW-PC will promote and maintain collaborative relationships with healthcare team members and community service partners.

Requirements

A Master's Degree in Social Work from a graduate school accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.
Two years of clinical social work experience.
A valid and active license as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker issued by the California Department of Consumer Affairs, Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Master of Social Work graduates must become registered as an Associate Clinical Social Worker with the California Department of Consumer Affairs, Board of Behavioral Sciences within sixty (60) days from commencement of employment with the County of Los Angeles.
Active and valid Associate Clinical Social Worker registration must be maintained continuously until successful completion of the examination process for licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
Registered Associate Clinical Social Workers must obtain licensure within six (6) years from the original date of registration with the California Department of Consumer Affairs, Board of Behavioral Sciences.
A valid California Class C Driver License or the ability to utilize an alternative method of transportation when needed to carry out job-related essential functions.
Knowledge of how to complete culturally and age appropriate psychosocial and emotional assessments.
Knowledge of how to formulate strengths-based care plans.
Knowledge of how to apply the appropriate trauma informed and evidence-based approaches.
Knowledge of how to implement care coordination to provide intervention for a wide range of care and service needs.

Nice To Haves

At least 5 years Post-degree experience working in a multidisciplinary team within a integrated care and/or medical setting assessing psychosocial needs of patients and families.
At least 5 years Post-degree experience providing clinical social work services in prenatal, infant, family, and /or early childhood mental health settings and developing interventions/care plans.
Able to work in a fast-paced environment with minimum supervision.
Spanish language fluency.

Responsibilities

Perform professional social work services to patients and families with complex medical and related psychosocial needs in the ambulatory care setting.
Supervise and support MFP MSW social workers and MFP MSW student interns delivering team-based intervention services through the Medical-Financial Partnership Program.
Coordinate and facilitate services delivered by the Medical-Financial Partnership Program in prenatal, perinatal, pediatric, and family medicine care clinical settings.
Implement Medical-Financial Partnership program activities.
Ensure continuity and coordination of services.
Optimize service delivery.
Minimize gaps in care for families.
Supervise more junior MSW team members and trainees.
Develop and strengthen key care team and community partnership relations, communications, and care linkages.
Oversee and support Medical-Financial Partnership services across care settings and departments.
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.
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.
Assist in the collection of relevant clinical measures for patient care, program support, and evaluation.
Provide daily clinical direct service in collaboration with the Medical-Financial Partnership team.
Provide ongoing education and supervision of social work interns exercised in accordance with scope of practice guidelines.
Ensure timely, complete, and accurate documentation and administrative processes related to educational roles, in coordination with other program staff and leadership.
Participate in the recruitment and placement of social work interns and maintain relationships with schools of social work to facilitate intern placement processes.
Support facilitation of Medical-Financial Partnership multi-disciplinary team conferences to discuss and evaluate clients’ progress, and to develop care coordination and care transition plans.
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.
Interview individuals, their families and/or significant others to obtain a family, social, employment/financial, medical, substance abuse, and mental health treatment history. Assessment may also include parenting and child developmental information.
Collaborate with client/parent/family to develop a tentative care plan based on their goals designed to enhance client’s capacity in addressing child/family adversity and related economic, social, and health related stressors, which may include referral to another resilience bridge team member for individual counseling, case management, and/or referral to another community-based organization.
Confer with representatives of other departments and community agencies to collaborate, troubleshoot, and to develop and maintain strong working relationships.
Participate as a member of administrative, educational, professional, and community committees for program planning.
Plan and conduct the Medical-Financial Partnership program under the guidance of Program Co-Directors.
Provide orientation to multi-disciplinary staff members to further their understanding of Medical-Financial Partnership program in mitigating impact of structural, economic, and social drivers of intergenerational health.
Provide linkage to community agencies to secure resources for clients, families, and significant others in order to achieve client’s goals.
Serve as day-to-day manager of program clinical site operations.
Meet and/or huddle with the Medical-Financial Partnership team and staff daily.
Work with families and significant others toward gaining their acceptance of and participation in treatment recommendations.
Participate in multi-disciplinary team conferences to discuss and evaluate the nature of the client's goal(s), to evaluate the client's progress, and to develop a care plan.
May participate in research studies and special projects to develop more effective methods of identifying and evaluating the needs of patients and families.
Keep informed in the fields of childhood social drivers of health, early relational health, perinatal mental health, Trauma-Informed Care, evidence-based practices, integrated health care models and practices, quality improvement, law and ethics in social work, Los Angeles County and local communities’ resource landscape, as they are applicable to the populations served.