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.

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