Senior Clinical Social Worker

Salary Range: $33.87-$48.87 per hour

SUMMARY

This position is for a Senior Clinical Social Worker at the Safe Harbor Trauma Recovery Center (TRC) at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. This employee will provide trauma-centered social work services to patients and family members in both inpatient and outpatient settings and may also provide field services as needed. The role will include providing quality clinical bio-psychosocial assessments and evidence-based treatment services and may also include evidence-based therapeutic practices, complex case management and care coordination, advocacy, and coordination of linkages to other appropriate community service providers/agencies as needed by the client

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Positions allocable to this class are assigned to hospitals and ambulatory care setting and are characterized primarily by the highly specialized and difficult case assignments where the nature and extent of the patient's medical condition is life-threatening or has a dramatic impact upon the functioning and lifestyle of the patient and family. Incumbents in these positions are expected to function with minimal technical supervision as they provide professional individualized treatment to accomplish changes in insight, attitudes, and motivation of patients and family members to attain optimal health functioning.

At this level, providing professional social work services to patients with such complex medical and related psycho-social problems 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 skills and may include additional expertise in specific therapeutic methods such as reality therapy, behavior modification, and group therapy.

All positions in this class provide consultation services to other health disciplines and community agencies about problems related to patient care and assessing unmet needs of the patient.

Employees in these positions may act as team leaders and may coordinate social work functions within a particular service by providing professional diagnostic and goal setting functions for the team members and by managing the system of case assignment. The evaluation, intervention planning, and resolution of problems is not directly patient-related. Other positions in this class located in the community ambulatory medical settings spend a majority of the time providing direct social work services to patients and family members while concurrently directing the work of a small social work unit consisting of no more than one professional social worker and a limited number of support staff.

Assignment in an ambulatory facility includes developing and coordinating social work services with other programs within the respective area of assignment, formulating goals and objectives for the unit, and adapting policies and procedures to provide more effective social work services to patients.

All positions in this class must possess a comprehensive knowledge of established professional social work standards and principles, pertinent policies and procedures of the department and the assigned facility, community resources available for referral, and State and Federal social welfare laws and regulations. Incumbents must also possess oral and written communication skills to facilitate individual and group therapy, to conduct interviews with patients and their families, to develop and to implement intervention plans, to coordinate social work services within the assigned facility, and to provide direction to team members.

• Interviews and evaluates patients and family members to identify social, emotional, and economic factors which may interfere with obtaining maximum benefits from medical care.
• Develops social/emotional assessments and formulates diagnoses and treatment plans based upon evaluation of the patient's past, present and future medical and socioeconomic functioning.
• Develops and implements psychosocial therapy programs for patients utilizing a variety of therapeutic methods and techniques.
• Provides consultation services to multi-disciplinary team members by evaluating the environmental and psychosocial implications of the patient's illness when the team is assessing and planning medical treatment.
• Develops and utilizes resources of public and private agencies and community organizations to meet the needs of the patients.
• Confers with representatives of other departments and private agencies to resolve problems and to develop and maintain public understanding and sound working relationships.
• Will be equipped to utilize various clinical treatment modalities including Evidence-Based Psychotherapy (EBP) approaches specific to PTSD and trauma recovery such as Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), etc. as directed by the TRC mental health team leader.
• Caseload will consist of complex clients, all of whom have…