Program Coordinator II (Social Worker)

Program Coordinator II (Social Worker)-Resilience & Early Relational Health Coordinator

Description:

This position coordinates and facilitates services delivered by the Medical-Financial Partnership Program in prenatal, perinatal, pediatric, and family medicine care settings to: 1) coordinate and supervise Medical-Financial Partnership team activities, 2) ensure continuity of services, 3) optimize service delivery, and 4) minimize gaps in care for families. 

Oversees and supports Medical-Financial Partnership services across care settings and departments.

Coordinates and supervises the implementation of a life course, two generation resilience-building intervention in clinical settings.

Provides direct clinical support for the Medical-Financial Partnership interdisciplinary program to promote trust-based parent-provider relationships across care settings and to promote parenting capacity of parents (prenatally and in the pediatric setting), including for those with high psychosocial and health risk.  Collaborates with interdisciplinary team to promote prenatal, perinatal, and pediatric secure attachments in order to promote early relational health through services that address structural, economic, and social drivers of behavioral, mental, and overall health.  Assists in the collection of relevant clinical measures for patient care and program support. 

Performs professional social work service to patients and families with complex medical and related psychosocial needs in the ambulatory care setting. 

Provides daily clinical direct service in collaboration with the Medical-Financial Partnership team.

Provides ongoing education and supervision of social work interns/resilience coaches exercised in accordance with scope of practice guidelines.

These activities include timely and accurate documentation and administrative processes related to educational roles, in coordination with other program staff and leadership.

Participates in the recruitment and placement of social work interns/resilience coaches, and maintains relationships with schools of social work to facilitate intern placement processes.

 

Supports facilitation of Medical-Financial Partnership multi-disciplinary team conferences to discuss and evaluate clients’ progress, and to develop care coordination and care transition plans.

Promotes and maintains 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.

Promotes and maintains collaborative relationships with service partner organizations and agencies in the community.

 

Documents clinical and program service activities accurately, completely, and in a timely manner.

Essential Job Functions


* Interviews individuals, their families and/or significant others to obtain a family, social, employment, medical, subst...