Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Department Description

The mission of the Department of Clinical Social Services is to provide compassionate, comprehensive, high-quality Clinical Social Services to restore and/or enhance the biopsychosocial functioning of patients and their families. Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW) support patients with conditions that span the entire health continuum.

Job Summary
Final Filing Date : 05/26/2022
Salary Range : $46.02 to $60.73
Salary Frequency : Hourly
Appointment Type : Career
Percentage of Time : 100%
Number of Positions : Multiple
Shift Hour : 8-4:30pm Monday through Friday with rotating weekends and holidays
Location : Patient Support Services Building (PSSB)
City : Sacramento
Union Representation : Yes
Benefits Eligible : Yes

We offer exceptional employment benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, generous paid vacations and holidays, excellent retirement savings and investment plans, continuing education, and reduced fee and scholarship programs.

THIS IS NOT AN H1- B OPPORTUNITY

Responsibilities

The primary responsibilities for this position consist of providing a full range of evidence-based social work services that are patient-centered and guided by the patient's diagnostic condition(s), cognitive, psychological, and emotional functioning, communication and learning capabilities, physical abilities, support system, living environment, and social determinants of health. Social work services include, but are not limited to, the following: biopsychosocial assessments, crisis interventions, psychiatric diagnostic evaluations informed by the current DSM, suicide risk and safety planning, supportive counseling, grief counseling, abuse/neglect mandated reporting, supporting victims of violence and/or human trafficking, symptom reduction, harm reduction, identification of unknown patients, locating next of kin, education and support to patients and families around issues related to adaptation to the patient's diagnosis, illness, treatment and/or life situation, and facilitating linkage to vital community-based resources for patients and families who are experiencing significant emotional, social, environmental, or financial stress due to hospitalization, acute, chronic, or terminal illness and/or who need help in meeting their continuing care needs.

Required Qualifications

• Valid California Board of Behavioral Sciences License Clinical Social Worker license without restrictions.
• Masters Degree in Social Work from an accredited School of Social Work.
• Basic computer skills.
• Knowledge of legal implications in clinical practice and documentation.
• Knowledge and understanding of individual, child, and family development, human behavior and communication, the influence of culture and values in social
• work practice, psychotherapy, case management, and the relationship between social work practice and medicine.
• Knowledge of child abuse, elder abuse, and domestic violence reporting requirements, and other significant legislation and laws regulating social work
• practice, e.g., Tarasoff, patient confidentiality, etc.
• Experience with consultation, interpret clinical findings and diagnosis, make recommendations regarding treatment, care and disposition.
• Experience within an acute medical hospital, mental health setting and/or health care clinic.
• Ability to use clinical supervision to enhance professional growth and examine clinical work.
• Experience with psychiatric and psychosocial assessments for pediatric/adult/geriatric populations.
• Knowledge of suicidal behavior, the ability to assess lethality, and the ability to develop appropriate safety plans with the patient and provide
• recommendations for follow-up care to the patient and interdisciplinary team.
• Knowledge of legal requirements and guidelines for providing psychiatric services including the appropriate use of 5l50 application.
• Knowledge of and ability to effectively use current DSM manual.
• Ability to assess adjustment to illness and coping, as well as provide brief counseling for individual/family and/or group.
• Skills, knowledge and ability working with death/dying/bereavement issues
• Excellent skils in written and verbal communication to collaborate productively in a team environment and to convey complex clinical information in a clear, concise manner.

Special Requirements
LCSWs are available on-site 24 hours a day. The LCSW works variable hours, which include occasional overtime, flexible hours, weekend and holiday shifts, to meet the operational needs of the Clinical Social Services department.
This position may be subject to a criminal background investigation, drug screen, Live Scan fingerprinting, medical evaluation clearance, and functional capacity assessment.

EEO
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC nondiscrimination policy.

The mission of the Department of Clinical Social Services is to provide compassionate, comprehensive, high-quality Clinical Social Services to restore and/or enhance the biopsychosocial functioning of patients and their families. Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW) support patients with conditions that span the entire health continuum.
The primary responsibilities for this position consist of providing a full range of evidence-based social work services that are patient-centered and guided by the patient's diagnostic condition(s), cognitive, psychological, and emotional functioning, communication and learning capabilities, physical abilities, support system, living environment, and social determinants of health. Social work services include, but are not limited to, the following: biopsychosocial assessments, crisis interventions, psychiatric diagnostic evaluations informed by the current DSM, suicide risk and safety planning, supportive counseling, grief counseling, abuse/neglect mandated reporting, supporting victims of violence and/or human trafficking, symptom reduction, harm reduction, identification of unknown patients, locating next of kin, education and support to patients and families around issues related to adaptation to the patient's diagnosis, illness, treatment and/or life situation, and facilitating linkage to vital community-based resources for patients and families who are experiencing significant emotional, social, environmental, or financial stress due to hospitalization, acute, chronic, or terminal illness and/or who need help in meeting their continuing care needs.

• Valid California Board of Behavioral Sciences License Clinical Social Worker license without restrictions.
• Masters Degree in Social Work from an accredited School of Social Work.
• Basic computer skills.
• Knowledge of legal implications in clinical practice and documentation.
• Knowledge and understanding of individual, child, and family development, human behavior and communication, the influence of culture and values in social
• work practice, psychotherapy, case management, and the relationship between social work practice and medicine.
• Knowledge of child abuse, elder abuse, and domestic violence reporting requirements, and other significant legislation and laws regulating social work
• practice, e.g., Tarasoff, patient confidentiality, etc.
• Experience with consultation, interpret clinical findings and diagnosis, make recommendations regarding treatment, care and disposition.
• Experience within an acute medical hospital, mental health setting and/or health care clinic.
• Ability to use clinical supervision to enhance professional growth and examine clinical work.
• Experience with psychiatric and psychosocial assessments for pediatric/adult/geriatric populations.
• Knowledge of suicidal behavior, the ability to assess lethality, and the ability to develop appropriate safety plans with the patient and provide
• recommendations for follow-up care to the patient and interdisciplinary team.
• Knowledge of legal requirements and guidelines for providing psychiatric services including the appropriate use of 5l50 application.
• Knowledge of and ability to effectively use current DSM manual.
• Ability to assess adjustment to illness and coping, as well as provide brief counseling for individual/family and/or group.
• Skills, knowledge and ability working with death/dying/bereavement issues
• Excellent skils in written and verbal communication to collaborate productively in a team environment and to convey complex clinical information in a clear, concise manner.

LCSWs are available on-site 24 hours a day. The LCSW works variable hours, which include occasional overtime, flexible hours, weekend and holiday shifts, to meet the operational needs of the Clinical Social Services department.


To apply, visit https://careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucdmed/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=5&JobOpeningId=20223&PostingSeq=1

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC nondiscrimination policy.





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