Oncology Social Worker (LCSW) - Simms Mann Center, San Luis Obispo

Under supervision of the Director and Simms Mann Center
leadership, the Oncology Social Worker functions as a team member of the Simms Mann
Center that provides comprehensive psychosocial care to patients with cancer
and their families. They will provide case-management, assess
psychosocial needs, and provide individual, group and family counseling. They
will also serve in a patient advocate role for California End of Life Act as
per UCLA policy. They will identify patients, respond to referrals and meet the
wide range of needs of outpatients. Provide referrals for economic,
psychological, social, hospice and home health care as needed. They will
also chart all contacts in an electronic medical record and will be responsible
for staffing the evening monthly lecture series.

Additional duties of the Oncology Social Worker include,
but are not limited to: update and screen the Center's resource referral
network and website; select appropriate information, websites and resources to
be made accessible to patients; attend medical clinics; identify patients
and respond to comprehensive psychosocial needs; participate in program
development as required; participate in training of interns and volunteers; provide
on-call service; administer and utilize the screening tools to develop
appropriate interventions; work in a complex medical system and assist patients
in navigating that system; provide other related services that promote the Simms
Mann Center and improve the quality of life of the patient and family touched
by cancer; and conduct therapeutic support groups. They must also be able to orient new patients
(in person and on the phone), walk-in patients and other visitors to the
Center's range of services, directing them toward the services that are the
most appropriate to the patients' particular situations and needs. They
must develop a thorough familiarity with the Center's and community resources to
help patients locate what they need. The Oncology Social Worker will also
participate in program evaluation and in determining the need for new services
as well as work with other oncology professionals to promote quality of life of
patients.Must be able to travel to multiple oncology clinics owned by
UCLA.

Annual Salary Range: $108,451.00 - $129,623.00

Required:

• Master's
  degree in social work and licensed in California (LCSW)
• 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.
  Ability to put these skills to use.
• Skills
  and knowledge to deliver psychosocial interventions in a medical setting.
• Skills
  required to facilitate individual, group and family therapy interventions.
• Skill
  in using computer database software to maintain and update resource
  referral network, all patient tracking, rehabilitation needs using
  software such as an Electronic Medical Record such as CareConnect with
  appropriate class work.
• 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
• Skill
  in completing and entering patient notes, tracking forms and consultation
  notes at appropriate intervals into database.
• Ability
  to understand the mission of the Simms Mann - UCLA Center for Integrative
  Oncology and to implement its objectives for the delivery of patient care.
• Ability
  to adapt to changing priorities including seeing patients at multiple
  sites, 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 convey warmth and caring in interpersonal interactions with patients
  and other members of the team.
• Knowledge
  of IBM-compatible computers -facility with Windows and the Internet.
• Demonstrated
  ability in searching the Internet and in determining appropriateness of
  cancer-related information found on the Internet for patient use.
• Ability
  to provide clinical knowledge to less experienced clinicians including
  developing didactic trainings, evaluating students, field instructor
  accreditation.

Preferred:

• Experience
  and knowledge working with medical patients in outpatient and/or inpatient
  medical environments with some exposure to oncology
• Experience
  working as a liaison with inpatient/outpatient units and community
  agencies.
• Knowledge
  of bereavement process.
• Knowledge,
  skill and ability to work autonomously using specific software programs
  such as Word, Excel, Outlook and any other programs for EMR.
• Familiarity
  with CareConnect or other EPIC-based electronic medical record software
• Ability
  to speak Spanish