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Description

Join a mission-driven team dedicated to supporting patients and families impacted by cancer. In this impactful role, you will serve as a Clinical Social Worker across both the Simms Mann - Center for Integrative Oncology and the Bowyer Oncology Clinic, providing direct psychosocial care, resource navigation, and culturally responsive case management. You will work closely with an interdisciplinary team to address the complex needs of a diverse patient population, many of whom face social, financial, or logistical barriers to care. This position requires a compassionate, organized, and adaptable clinician to support patients throughout their oncology journey-from diagnosis through treatment and survivorship, including end-of-life care.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

+ Provide direct social work services including psychosocial assessment, case management, and supportive counseling

+ Conduct therapeutic support groups and participate in community education

+ Assist patients and families in understanding and navigating the healthcare system

+ Facilitate referrals and resources to social, psychological, economic, home health, and hospice services

+ Contribute to Simms/Mann Center program development, outreach, and evaluation

+ Support and guide interns and volunteers in clinical practice

Salary Range: $51.94-62.08 Hourly

_This position requires the ability to travel to multiple UCLA Health locations to see oncology patients._

Qualifications

Required:

+ Master's degree in Social Work.

+ Active Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of California.

+ Experience and knowledge working with medical patients in outpatient and/or inpatient medical environments with some exposure to oncology.

+ Knowledge of psychosocial and other rehabilitation related problems that arise in individuals with cancer at all phases of their disease and treatments.

+ Knowledge of the most common cancers (e.g. breast, colon, prostate, lung and gynecologic) and their treatments.

+ Knowledge of psychosocial distress screening instruments. Ability to formulate assessments of psychosocial needs of individuals with cancer.

+ Skills and knowledge to deliver psychosocial interventions in a medical setting.

+ Skills required to facilitate individual, group and family therapy interventions.

+ Ability to identify referral sources and to provide referrals for economic, psychosocial and home health care programs.

+ Knowledge and ability to function as a team member, working with other staff social workers and clinicians to develop patient groups, lectures and other programs.

+ Ability to adapt to changing priorities including traveling to multiple location to see patients, under various conditions, without a specific office.

+ Interpersonal skills to interact effectively with patients and medical staff including physicians and nurses to function as a team member.

+ Ability to provide clinical knowledge to less experienced clinicians including developing didactic trainings, evaluating students, field instructor accreditation.

Preferred:

+ Spanish Speaker

+ Experience working as a liaison with inpatient/outpatient units and community agencies.

+ Knowledge of bereavement process.

+ Familiarity with CareConnect or other EPIC-based electronic medical record software.

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