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LCSW Disease Management Program Coordinator - Per Diem - Harbor City
Mental health is an essential component of total health. As mental health professionals, we’re on the front lines every day, using the latest advances to help those in need. If you share our passion for care and our commitment to helping those around us, you’ll have the resources you need to make a real difference. Our services include adult and child therapy as well as help with addiction and eating disorders.
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Job Type:Standard
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Job Level:Individual Contributor
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Travel:No
Success Profile
These are the traits of the most successful members of our behavioral health team.
- Adaptable
- Compassionate
- Good listener
- Proactive
- Results Driven
- Versatile
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Our compensation and benefits are designed to help you and your family stay healthy and thrive in and beyond work.
Our Culture
We offer a mental health environment that's unique both in the way we treat our patients and in the way we support our health care professionals. Here, we practice evidence-based care in a team setting that’s focused on the needs of the individual, the family and the population as a whole. This gives your patients the opportunity to work towards achieving their physical, mental, and behavioral health goals. On our teams, we hold social justice as a shared value and are committed to addressing and eliminating stigma associated with mental health and addiction. Working as part of a team also helps support your own career growth while you provide high-quality strengths-based, brief, solution-focused, and episodic mental health care.
Hear From Our People
Aaron
Psychiatric Social Worker
Kaiser Permanente has been an excellent platform for me to grow as a professional. The organization has demonstrated its commitment to the continued growth of its employees through the training it offers and encourages. I’ve always resonated with the organization’s integrated approach to health care, and its recognition of how essential good mental health is to a person’s overall well-being.
Breeza
Licensed Certified Social Worker
I would recommend and do recommend workingfor Kaiser Permanente. It’s a professional, clean,friendly, fast-paced environment and there is a real trustand respect for clinical staff no matter what role weserve. I love feeling valued and heard and am thankful tohave found an environment that providesthat.
Janice
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
This is the best place to work because ofthe commitment to the total health of our members, thework/life balance, the possibilities to use clinical skillsin a variety of capacities within the organization andopportunities for personal and professional growth. Asemployees of Kaiser Permanente, we all have a voice and areencouraged to use it.
Gabriela
Clinical Program Manager
At Kaiser Permanente, I have opportunities to learn and work in a professional setting with people who are passionate about patient care. I love my career as a therapist and now as a manager! I really enjoy helping others and learning new interventions and modalities. These ensure my personal and professional growth.
Laura
Psychotherapist
Kaiser Permanente is a health care leader who sets trends and makes a difference in industry practices and protocols. I like the extraordinary resources available to do my job, the servant leadership of my manager and director, and the high standard of business and clinical ethics.
Amie
PsyD, Clinical Psychologist
We’re an innovative, vision-forwardcompany. While Integrative-Care models are relatively new,we’ve been on the frontlines of building out ahigh-functioning integrated team for over a decade. Withinthis model of care, we’re pushed to think out of the boxwhen it comes to patient care, be collaborative, andsucceed in a fast-paced environment.
Carol
PhD, Licensed Certified Social Worker – Clinical
Kaiser Permanente demonstrates itscommitment to their employees’, has a top-notch salary andcompensation package, and has a leadership body that iswell trained and supportive. As a Clinician and a Manager,I am very impressed with our commitment to qualityoutcomes. I have truly found a home here and would behonored for Kaiser Permanente to be my last professionalstop in my career.
Michael
PsyD, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Psych Social Worker
Kaiser Permanente, in my opinion, is agreat mix of professional, friendly and fast-paced. Theyallow me to be who I am and let me have a voice. I lovebeing a therapist and I’m very proud and excited about theGender Assessments and transgender group work beingconducted. I’m helping the LGBT community and making thispopulation feel comfortable throughout their care journey.Kaiser Permanente is a breath of fresh air to me in mywork.
Kashonda
Psychotherapist
I appreciate how Kaiser Permanente strivesto reflect inclusivity and representation throughout theorganization. I’m excited about an internal cliniccomprised of African American clinicians dedicated tosupporting the health needs of the African diaspora. I’mproud to be part of committees that intentionally promoteequity, inclusion and diversity. These things combined withthe benefits, opportunities and people make KaiserPermanente a great place to work.
LCSW Disease Management Program Coordinator - Per Diem - Harbor City
Collaborates with Chief Physicians, staff physicians and managers/care providers from multiple disciplines/departments to manage the planning, development, implementation/ delivery and evaluation/improvement of a disease management program for at-risk patients in a behavioral healthcare population defined by a chronic psychiatric disease state or disorder such as, but not limited to, characterological disorders/conditions, depressive, anxiety and/or personality disorders, dual diagnosis, substance addiction, autism.
- Responsible for coordinating an integrated systematic care management process/ program based on clinical pathways, protocols and guidelines.
- Such program directs the member/patient to appropriate and timely specialty diagnostic and treatment care services across the full continuum of care.
- Provides comprehensive on-going care management that meets established standards/ benchmarks for efficiency, improved clinical outcomes, quality, resource utilization, cost effectiveness, evidence-based treatment plans and improves members quality of life and satisfaction.
- In the program planning/development stage, acts as project manager to develop a strategic/business plan which meets access, cost, quality and member/patient satisfaction goals and needs.
- Utilizes a multi-disciplinary team approach/process to develop and implement clinical pathways and care management interventions.
- Identify and stratify at-risk patient populations.
- Analyze practice patterns/variations.
- Establish care/treatment benchmarks.
- Design a disease care model for analyzing disease components and interventions which addresses all components of patient care including patient self-management, education/teaching, and stratified interventions based on illness severity and co-morbidities.
- Pilot tests new and administers/communicates on-going program in conjunction with Chief Physicians and care providers/managers.
- Manages disease-specific data collection, analysis, and reporting based on financial, clinical, utilization, cost, best practices, and baseline metrics.
- Problem solves program issues and treatment variations.
- Analyzes program outcomes actually achieved vs intended outcomes.
- Monitors and resolves program compliance issues involving providers and patients.
- Evaluates disease management program in terms of utilization review/resource issues such as treatment variances, goal achievement of interventions, effective interaction between all clinicians/providers, appropriateness of program care model, quality improvement and patient/member satisfaction.
- Conducts analyses related to protocol/treatment plan compliance as well as clinical, quality, communication, financial/cost outcomes and makes recommendations for program revisions.
- Monitors, evaluates and improves patient access provided by care managers via telephone and other means in order to improve patient self-care/management, compliance and participation in care processes.
- Acts as organization liaison with relevant community agencies, organizations and task forces.
- Minimum four (4) years of behavioral health case management experience in a relevant chronic disease in an acute medical center, OR
- Minimum four (4) years of experience analyzing/improving behavioral health care clinical practices/processes and clinical performance in an acute medical center.
- Masters degree in clinical social work from an institution accredited by the Council on Social Work Education
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker (California)
- Ability to conduct and utilize processes, principles and practices of program evaluation and case management modalities/interventions.
- Demonstrated knowledge of human development and psychotherapeutic theories/principles and practices.
- Ability to utilize project management skills and abilities, as well as consulting and interpersonal skills ( communication, influencing, negotiating, persuasion).
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
- Will help support Bridge Program/Clinic, ETC, AATC, Complex Care, HUB and PC plus.
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