Provide positive care solutions within an award-winning health system. Grow your career while enhancing quality of life for those most in need. Leverage your expertise to make a real difference in the community. You can do all this and more at UCLA Health.

You will provide a range of services to multidisciplinary teams with emphasis on outpatient practices of the UCLA Health-Behavioral Health Associates serving adult, geriatric populations, child and adolescents. Duties may include psychosocial assessment; care coordination, consultation to the team, individual, family or group psychotherapeutic treatment; liaison with community agencies; treatment plan documentation; and disposition planning and advocacy.  You will serve as a resource to providers, patients, care coordinators, and performs complex care coordination for high risk patients to improve access to psychiatric care and to prevent unnecessary ED admissions and hospitalizations. In this role, you will have three main functions: 

1. Resource and complex care coordination

2. Project coordination/management for innovative approaches to deliver behavioral health services to enhance/improve access to care

 3. Direct clinical services, the clinical social worker may provide direct mental health services including urgent assessments, interventions, and recommendations to individual patients and their families and recruitment for and coordination of group therapy sessions

You will serve as a patient advocate, demonstrate problem solving skills to resolve conflict and assist patients/families/caregivers to identify their past and present coping skills. You will work collaboratively with the patient, community resources, other providers, managed care operations, the UCLA Health System, and health plans to implement, identify, coordinate, and monitor options and services to meet at-risk patients’ healthcare needs. You will aim to foster continuity of care and reduce unnecessary utilization of healthcare services by coordinating and providing health services that meet individuals’ health needs. By connecting key individuals involved in the care of the patient and decreasing fragmentation and duplication of care, the clinical social worker is able to enhance the quality and cost effectiveness of the care that is delivered in the outpatient setting. You will also be expected to keep current with the professional mental healthcare knowledge and pursue further enhancement of job-related knowledge.

Multiple locations available, including Santa Monica, West LA, Marina Del Rey, Brentwood and Calabasas, as well as flexibility in schedule.

*Position is flexible hybrid with up to 40% remote*

Salary Range: $108,451 – $129,623 Annual