Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Simms Mann Center

Required:

• Master’s degree in Social Work.
• Active Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of California.
• Knowledge of psychosocial and other rehabilitation related problems that arise in individuals with cancer at all phases of their disease and treatments.
• Knowledge of the most common cancers (e.g. breast, colon, prostate, lung and gynecologic) and their treatments.
• Knowledge of psychosocial distress screening instruments. Ability to formulate assessments of psychosocial needs of individuals with cancer. 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.
• Ability to identify referral sources and to provide referrals for economic, psychosocial and home health care programs.
• Skill in completing and entering patient notes, tracking forms and consultation notes at appropriate intervals into database.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities including seeing patients at multiple sites, under various conditions, without a specific office.
• Interpersonal skills to interact effectively with patients and medical staff including physicians and nurses to function as a team member.
• Ability to convey warmth and caring in interpersonal interactions with patients and other members of the team.
• Ability to provide clinical knowledge to less experienced clinicians including developing didactic trainings, evaluating students, field instructor accreditation.
• Ability to travel to various UCLA Health locations as needed.

Preferred:

• Experience and knowledge working with medical patients in outpatient and/or inpatient medical environments with some exposure to oncology.
• Knowledge of bereavement process.
• Ability to speak Spanish.