Under supervision of Center Director and Clinical Director, this role functions as a team member of a Simms Mann Center, providing comprehensive psychosocial care to patients with cancer and their families, providing direct case management, resource navigation, and direct care delivery.  Provides culturally-competent direct social work services, including assessment, intervention, and recommendations to individual patients and their families often from marginalized, sociodemographically under represented, and under-resourced areas.   

The Care Coordinator will be viewed as the primary source of informational support with regard to resources. This role participates in interdisciplinary activities, complies with departmental standards regarding attendance, documentation, continuous quality improvement, statistics, departmental policies and procedures, and follows the Code of Ethics. Identifies patients, responds to referrals and meets the wide range of needs of the Simms/Mann, transitional and Bowyer oncology patients.  Provides referrals for economic, psychological, social, hospice, and home health care as needed. Provides comprehensive resources and facilitation of access to resources for various psychosocial stressors and needs. The Care Coordinator will focus on providing essential assistance to patients with regard to transition of care into the community, working closely with their primary clinician, addressing variables that will help improve overall quality of life and reacclimation into their community.

In addition, the Care Coordinator responsibilities include, but are not limited to: charting all contacts in an electronic medical record, working in a complex medical system and assists patients in navigating that system, provides other related services that promote the Simms Mann Center and improve the quality of life of the patient and family touched by cancer, develops a thorough familiarity with Simms Mann Center and community resources in order to help patients locate what they need, administers/utilizes screening tools to develop appropriate interventions and resources, participates in program evaluation and development, works with other oncology professionals to promote quality of life of patients. They will also update and screen the Center’s resource referral network and website and select appropriate information, websites and resources to be made accessible to patients. The Care Coordinator is expected to participate in program development and participate in training of interns and volunteers.   

Additional responsibilities as needed, including but not limited to, serving in clinical consultant role for California End of Life Act as per UCLA policy, travel to multiple UCLA oncology clinics, and conducting a therapeutic support groups.  

Salary Range: $108,451.00 – 129,623.00 Annually