General Information

Work Location: Rolling Hills Estates, CA, USA Work Schedule Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm; may vary Posted Date 09/09/2025 Salary Range: $121960.08 - 160922.16 Annually Employment Type 2 - Staff: Career Duration Indefinite Job # 32875

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Provide positive care solutions within an award-winning health system. Grow your career while enhancing quality of life for those most in need. Leverage your expertise to make a real difference in the community. You can do all this and more at UCLA Health.

In this role, you will provide a range of services to multidisciplinary teams with emphasis on outpatient practices of the UCLA Health-Behavioral Health Associates serving adult, geriatric populations, child and adolescents. Duties include psychosocial assessment; care coordination, consultation to the team, individual, family or group psychotherapeutic treatment; liaison with community agencies; treatment plan documentation; and disposition planning and advocacy. Requires excellent skills in interpersonal communication and documentation, as well as clinical knowledge of individual, family, social and Cultural issues in mental illness. 

Please note this position requires traveling between South Bay clinics.

*Position is flexible hybrid with up to 40% remote*

Salary Range: $121,960 - $160,922 Annual

 

Job Qualifications

• CA Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or CA Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)
• Masters in Social Work, Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy or related field
• 2 years of experience and skill interacting with health care providers in a multidisciplinary setting
• 2 years of experience as a fully licensed, autonomous clinician
• 5+ years of psychotherapy experience in inpatient, outpatient, or group settings with or without license
• Working knowledge of general theoretical and clinical models
• Ability to develop effective rapport and working therapeutic alliances with patients
• Skill in writing clear and complete clinical notes and summaries of clinical evaluations
• Skills and experiences in documenting/charting to ensure current and accurate medical records are entered and documented in patient files in accordance with established Medical Records policies and procedures
• Knowledge of LCSW/LMFT ethics and scope of practice
• Ability to perform a complete mental status exam and recognize changes in mental status
• Ability to establish and maintain effective and mutually respectful relationships with professionals and support staff
• Knowledge of pertinent current community resources, including income maintenance, mental health treatment, special education, residential and vocational supports
• Ability to provide and maintain appropriate coordination of care with existing providers and/or variety of community agencies and demonstrate assertiveness, persistence, and diplomacy as an advocate for the patient
• Maintains the expected case load of patients 

 
As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.
Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.