Clinical Social Worker II - Simms Mann Center, Westwood

The Simms Mann Center - UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology is seeking a dedicated Clinical Social Worker to join our interdisciplinary team, providing comprehensive psychosocial care to cancer patients and their families. In this dynamic role, you will work closely with medical teams across various oncology clinics to deliver individual, group, and family therapeutic support. You will assess a wide range of emotional, social, and practical needs; help patients navigate complex medical systems; provide timely referrals to supportive services; and contribute to end-of-life care discussions. This role combines clinical work, patient advocacy, and program support to help improve the quality of life for patients and families.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provide individual, group, and family therapeutic support
• Assess patient and family psychosocial needs and offer appropriate interventions
• Consult with medical teams and support patients in navigating complex healthcare systems
• Offer referrals to community and supportive services as needed
• Support patient education through resource referrals and Center programming
• Participate in outreach, program development, and Center events
• Assist with training of interns and volunteers

Required:

• Master's degree in Social Work with a concentration in healthcare.
• One year of experience managing cancer patients on outpatient basis.
  
• Knowledge of the most common cancers (e.g. breast, colon, prostate,lung and gynecologic) and their treatments.
• Knowledge of psychosocial and other rehabilitation related problems that arise in individuals with cancer at all phases of their disease and treatments.
• Ability to formulate assessments of psychosocial needs of individuals with cancer.
  
• 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 as well as ability to use 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.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities including traveling to multiple location to see patients, 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 provide clinical knowledge to less experienced
  clinicians including developing didactic trainings, evaluating students, field
  instructor accreditation.