Required:

• Master’s degree in social work and licensed in California (LCSW)
• Knowledge of psychosocial and other rehabilitation related problems that arise in AYA individuals with cancer including specific developmental stressors including identity, peer support, navigation of school/academic curriculum.
• 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. Additionally, skills required to assess acute risk factors that may present with the AYA patient community while pursuing medical care.
• 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 function as a team member.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities including seeing patients at multiple sites, under various conditions, without a specific office.
• Ability to synthesize ideas to solve problems.  
• 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.
• Familiarity with CareConnect or other EPIC-based electronic medical record software
• Paneled with the California Children Services to provide specific care to AYA patient population.
• Knowledge of specific AYA stressors that can accompany a cancer diagnosis including fertility preservation, assistance with school programs and financial support.

• Experience and knowledge working with AYA 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.