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Associate I - Medical Social Work (Bilingual Full Time)
Primary Location Los Angeles, California
Employee Status: Regular
Worker Location: Onsite
Schedule Full-time
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift Day
Salary $39.8 - $51.5 / hour
Job Number 1455027
Date Posted 10/16/2026
Job Summary:
Provides effective client care by utilizing foundational knowledge to conduct psychosocial assessments, diagnostic impressions, and interventions for individuals, couples, families, and groups, and sharing results with management. Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams to develop individualized care plans, address social service needs, and execute social work service plans. Communicates guidance to patients regarding treatment plans and resources and participates in referrals to appropriate services. Manages a caseload of patients with low to medium psychosocial acuity by collaborating with clinical teams, implementing care coordination improvements, and ensuring accurate documentation of treatment plans and follow-up appointments. Adheres to case management policies and suggests improvements while ensuring compliance with organizational, state, and federal guidelines. Supports program development by evaluating social work programs, identifying new development opportunities, and independently updating industry knowledge to recommend system and process enhancements.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members. Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.
- Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives. Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team.
- Provides effective client care by leveraging foundational knowledge to provide psychosocial assessment, diagnostic impressions, interventions with individuals/couples/families/groups, and prevention of psychosocial dysfunction/disability/impairment including emotional/mental/behavioral disorders, sharing results with management; collaborating with interdisciplinary teams when conducting psychosocial assessment, including functional status and financial resources to develop an individualized care plan, determine interventions needed, and discuss social service needs; communicating and providing guidance with patients to share results to discuss social work and treatment plans, provide resources, and answer questions; executing social work service plans, applying feedback when appropriate; and participating in the referral of members, patients, and staff to the appropriate services and sharing information with providers.
- Coordinates the care of a caseload of patients with low to medium psychosocial acuity by collaborating with the clinical team to disseminate treatment plans to patients and providers; identifying and implementing potential recommendations to improve care coordination; acquiring and applying knowledge of guidelines and protocols to recommend patient referrals; adhering to case management policies and procedures and suggesting improvements to promote member utilization and engagement of services; and ensuring documentation of patient treatment plans and follow-up appointments.
- Supports compliant services by learning and complying with organizational, state, and federal guidelines as well as regulatory policies, standards, and procedures, and having awareness of when to escalate compliance-related/regulatory concerns; and maintaining and submitting written and electronic documentation, records, and reports (e.g., charting) according to department, federal, and state regulations, with little to no guidance.
- Supports program development and management by helping to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of social work programs and identifying opportunities for new program development; and independently staying up-to-date with industry best practices and new treatment options to recommend and help implement improvements to systems and processes for outcome management as well as social work programs or protocols.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)
- Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
- Attention to Detail
- Business Knowledge
- Communication
- Constructive Feedback
- Critical Thinking
- Cross-Group Collaboration
- Decision Making
- Dependability
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
- Drives Results
- Facilitation Skills
- Health Care Industry
- Influencing Others
- Integrity
- Leadership
- Learning Agility
- Organizational Savvy
- Problem Solving
- Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
- Strategic Thinking
- Team Building
- Teamwork
- Topic-Specific Communication
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)
- Accountability
- Acts with Compassion
- Adaptability
- Behavioral Health Treatment
- Care Coordination
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Treatment
- Confidentiality
- Conflict Resolution
- Discretion
- Intercultural Skills
- Interpersonal Skills
- Maintain Files and Records
- Managing Diverse Relationships
- Member Service
- Patient Advocacy
- Patient Education
- Relationship Building
- Risk Management
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Psychology, Counseling, Social Work or a related field AND minimum three (3) years of experience in counseling, social work, or a directly field.
Additional Requirements:
Bilingual (English/Spanish) Level II required.
Preferred Qualifications:
- N/A
Notes:
Must successfully pass or have passed the bilingual test (within the last 12 months), or be active in the QBS program.
Primary Location: California,Los Angeles,4950 Sunset Radiation Center
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Day
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri,
Working Hours Start: 08:30 AM
Working Hours End: 05:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Employee Status: Regular
Worker Location: Onsite
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-SCAL-02|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Department: Sunset-Vermont MOB - Case Coordination Ctr-SCAL - 0801
Pay Range: $39.8 - $51.5 / hour
Kaiser Permanente strives to offer a market competitive total rewards package and is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not reflect the full value of our total rewards package. Actual base pay determined at offer will be based on labor market data, internal alignment, and a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.
Travel: No
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.
For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.
Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.
Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information and other confidential KP information (including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic assets, medical instruments, or devices; (4) controlled substances regulated by federal law or potentially subject to diversion.
For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
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