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The Department of Psychiatry is seeking to hire a part-time Licensed Clinical Social Worker to join our Specialty Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic (SPOC). You will provide a wide range of services to multidisciplinary teams with emphasis on outpatient practices serving our adult, geriatric, child, and adolescents populations. Primary duties include:
- Provides age appropriate assessment and interventions
- Providing clinical evaluations of new patients, assessing suitability for outpatient therapeutic care
- Interpret individual patient/family psychosocial needs, strength, and preferences to the team through consultation
- Formulating treatment plans based on assessment
- Providing individual, couple, and/or group psychotherapy for patients
- Document and enter patient information
- Evaluating and referring patients for additional or alternative modes of care
- Other duties as assigned
Master's degree in Social Work
Licensed Clinical Social worker in the State of California
Experience working with patients with significant mental health challenges including but not limited to eating disorders, trauma, alcohol/drug use disorders, and anxiety/depression
Experience and skill in interacting with professional healthcare providers in a multidisciplinary setting
Knowledge of clinical social worker ethics and scope of practice
Experience in documenting and charting to ensure current and accurate medical records
Ability to perform complete mental status exams
Ability to develop rapport and working therapeutic alliances with patients
Working knowledge or general theoretical and clinical models
Able to learn/master UCLA CareConnect software
Strong self-management and organizational skills to successfully meet job responsibilities
Excellent oral and written expression skills, especially in behaviorally specific treatment planning
University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy, see: UC Nondiscrimination & Affirmative Action Policy.