Job Summary:
Join a dynamic interdisciplinary team as a Psychiatric Social Worker, where you’ll play a crucial role in providing top-tier mental health support through direct assessment, accurate diagnosis formulation, comprehensive treatment planning, and effective psycho-education for our members and their families. We seek skilled professionals who possess a deep understanding of psychopathology and are ready to implement timely clinical interventions. Whether your focus is on specific age groups or varied treatment modalities, your expertise and compassion will shine in direct patient care.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Assessment and Intervention: Conduct timely and appropriate assessments, diagnosis, and treatment planning tailored to individual member needs.
• Treatment Selection: Skillfully choose the most effective treatment modalities for each unique presenting problem.
• Communication: Present clinical information clearly to members and collaborate effectively with clinical staff.
• Customer Satisfaction: Ensure a high level of internal and external patient satisfaction through personalized care.
• Documentations: Maintain accurate and timely documentation of clinical encounters in member charts.
• Resource Knowledge: Leverage knowledge of KP and community resources to benefit member care.
• Regulation Adherence: Strictly follow all mandated guidelines relating to clinical care and licensing requirements while maintaining your professional licensure.
• Initial Interviews: Formulate professional interpretations during initial interviews to understand members’ psychological and social concerns while assessing urgency.
• Therapeutic Action: Recommend and initiate appropriate courses of therapeutic action for both crisis intervention and ongoing therapy for individuals across all age spectrums.
• Documentation and Reporting: Keep thorough records of therapy sessions and actively engage with relevant social entities, schools, and families to gather pertinent information.
• Clinical Consultation: Offer insightful clinical consultation within an integrated healthcare setting, addressing family dynamics, sociocultural factors, and community resources.
• Telehealth Services: Provide telephone assessments, counseling, resource information, and referrals.
• Developmental Care: Demonstrate expertise in addressing the needs across developmental stages with proficiency in individual, group, family, and child therapy.
• Compliance: Adhere to all organizational, departmental, and regulatory standards while actively participating in Quality Management and Continuous Quality Improvement initiatives.

Basic Qualifications:
Experience:

• Two (2) years of postgraduate mental health therapy experience within the last five (5) years is essential.

Education:

• A Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, or a related behavioral health field is required.

License, Certification, Registration:

• Must hold one of the following licenses: Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (California), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (California), or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (California).
• National Provider Identifier is required.

Additional Requirements:

• Proficiency in utilizing the current DSM nomenclature is required.
• A consistent demonstration of knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that provide top-quality and culturally sensitive service to members, customers, contracted providers, and vendors.

Preferred Qualifications:

• N/A

Primary Location: California, Lomita, Lomita Behavioral Health
Hours Per Week: 40
Shift: Day
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
Working Hours End: 08:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: B11-PSC NUHW NUHW Psych Social Chapter
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Job Category: Behavioral Health, Social Services & Spiritual Care
Department: Lomita Offices – Mental Health/Psychiatry-RegClin – 0806
Travel: Yes, 10% of the time

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to fostering a respectful, inclusive workplace where all applicants are considered without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status.

For positions within unincorporated LA County, we adhere to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, noting that criminal history may affect job duties and could impact the conditional offer of employment.

Our Commitment:
We are dedicated to upholding the Principles of Responsibility, protecting patient confidentiality, ethical practice, and compliance with all regulatory and organizational policies. You will contribute to our mission by modeling and reinforcing ethical behavior while assuring the privacy and integrity of all information.