ResponsibilitiesIn this role, you will be a team member of the Extensivist Program that provides comprehensive psychosocial care to patients with complex medical conditions and frequent hospitalizations.
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.
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.
Provide other related services that promote the Extensivist Program and improve the quality of life of the patient and family touched by complex medical conditions.
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.
Work with other health professionals to promote quality of life of patients.
Conduct therapeutic support groups.
Qualifications Master’s degree in social work.
LCSW degreee and ability to travel to Extensivist Clinics owned by UCLA required.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.Knowledge and ability to function as a team member, working with other staff social workers and clinicians to develop patient groups, lectures and other programs.Skill in completing and entering patient notes, tracking forms and consultation notes at appropriate intervals into database.Ability to understand the mission of the Extensivist Program and to implement its objectives for the delivery of patient care.Ability to function as a team member.Ability to adapt to changing priorities including seeing patients at multiple sites, under various conditions, without a specific office.Ability to synthesize ideas to solve problems.
Interpersonal skills to interact effectively with patients and medical staff including physicians and nurses to function as a team member.Ability to provide clinical knowledge to less experienced clinicians including developing didactic trainings, evaluating students, field instructor accreditation.Experience and knowledge working with medical patients in outpatient and/or inpatient medical environments preferred.UCLA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.