Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Santa Monica, Simms Mann Center (Oncology)

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, 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, supportive counseling, and on-call service

• 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; staff lecture series

• Support and guide interns and volunteers in clinical practice

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

Salary Range: $58.41-69.80 Hourly

Qualifications

Required:

• Master's degree in Social Work.

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

• 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.

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

• Skill in completing and entering patient notes, tracking forms and consultation notes at appropriate intervals into database.

• 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.

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

• Ability to travel to various UCLA Health locations as needed.

Preferred:

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

• Knowledge of bereavement process.

• Ability to speak Spanish.

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