Stuart House Child Advocate - Licensed Psychologist

Description

Stuart House is an internationally recognized model program created by the Rape Treatment Center to serve the special needs of sexually abused children and their families. Stuart House provides evidence-based, trauma informed, and culturally centered therapeutic services.

As a Stuart House Advocate, you will provide crisis intervention, case management, advocacy, and court-related services for children who are suspected victims of sexual abuse and their families and ensure coordination among the various agencies participating in the Stuart House Program. The Child Advocate also works with an on-site multidisciplinary team. Major functions and responsibilities are to provide direct services to children and their families and foster interagency collaboration to benefit child victims. The Child Advocate also participates in providing RTC 24-hour on-call services for patients reporting sexual assault 1-2 weekday overnight on-call shifts per month.

UCLA Health is a world-renowned health system with four award-winning hospitals and dozens of primary care practices, specialty practices, urgent care centers and other ancillary locations throughout metro Los Angeles. Through the efforts of our outstanding people, we have become Los Angeles' trusted provider of exceptional, compassionate patient care.

• Only 1 position will be filled: # 12739 - Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW); 12740 - Clinical Social Worker 2; 12741 - Licensed Clinical Psychologist 2; or 12742 - LMFT.

Salary range: $58.36-$76.98 HourlyQualifications

Requirements

• Psy.D. or Ph.D. in Psychology.

• California State Licensed Psychologist.

• Knowledge of bio-psycho-social development across all age groups, especially children and adolescents.

• Knowledge of advocacy issues and case management of suspected CSA cases.

• Bilingual language skills in both Spanish and English is required.

• Advanced knowledge of response to trauma, child trauma intervention, family systems theory, and domestic violence.

• Ability to evaluate potential child, domestic, and elder abuse situations and knowledge of legal requirements in completing suspected abuse reports.

• Strong crisis intervention skills, and competence in assessing suicidality and homicidality.

• Knowledge of the role and responsibilities of DCFS, law enforcement, prosecutors, and criminal and dependency court system in responding to CSA cases.

• Skill in multidisciplinary team coordination and interdisciplinary collaboration.

• On-call responsibilities require schedule availability for work one to two overnight shifts per month, and must be able to get to our UCLA Medical center in Santa Monica within 30 minutes when on-call.

UCLA Health welcomes all individuals, without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin or disabilities, and we proudly look to each person's unique achievements and experiences to further set us apart.