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Keck Medicine of USC
Los Angeles, California, United States

Supervisor, Care Coordination (LCSW) - Case Management - Full-time 8 Hour Days (Exempt) (Non-Union)

Social WorkerFull-Time

Listed compensation

$115k-$189k

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Job Description

The LCSW Care Coordination SW Supervisor is a leader with sound clinical skills and actively assists the Leadership in coordinating both clinical and operational duties. The Supervisor oversees departmental staff including Transplant Social Workers in an effective and efficient manner.

This includes creating staff schedules, daily assignments, vacation approvals, timecard management, contributing toward department goals, and participating in necessary disciplinary actions for staff. Supports the daily logistics of the Care Coordination department. Has extensive knowledge of department processes.

Assists in selecting, training, performance review, and supervision as well as participating in Quality Improvement activities.

Essential Duties

Coordinates and integrates various clinical resource management activities on intradepartmental, Interdepartmental and hospital wide levels.

Takes an assignment when necessary to provide care to patients.

Establishes and maintains performance improvement and quality control activities which support the Department and the hospital.

Monitors staff’s clinical responsibilities in providing psychosocial assessment, interventions, and evaluation of the effectiveness of treatment plans in accordance with standards of practice and scope of care.

  • Provides consultations to staff on difficult cases and provides a second opinion
  • Keeps staff’s licenses, certifications, fire card and annual health assessment’s up to date.

Plans for appropriate staffing, monitors, and adjusts as indicated by patient census, acuity or staffing changes. Creates and publishes daily Work Assignment by 8:00 AM

Assists with staff evaluations. Plans for provision of services through appropriate levels of qualified, competent staff.

Assists the Director in staff performance appraisals and performance management activities including monitoring attendance records.

Performs document review audits for completeness, accuracy, appropriateness, and clarity of documentation by staff

  • Supports and mentors staff.
  • Manages escalations from staff.
  • Provides for orientation, training and continuing education of staff.
  • Actively assists with staffing transplant clinic and selection committees.
  • Works with staff to ensure necessary information is transmitted to the Independent Living Donor social worker.
  • Assists Leadership in establishing long and short-term goals for the Department, and remaining within acceptable variance of departmental operational and productivity budgets.
  • Monitor space/resource requirements and utilization of outside resources.
  • Assists with KRONOS time keeping.
  • Proactively implements and maintains systems/protocols to improve operations.
  • Completes eSRM reports.
  • Is a team player.
  • Displays a positive attitude.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

  • Req Master's degree in Social Work/Social Welfare from an accredited college or university
  • Req 2 years Experience as a clinical social worker in health care setting, including an acute hospital or related area
  • Req 1 - 2 years Previous supervisory experience.
  • Req Demonstrated ability to effectively work with physicians, staff, and patients.
  • Req Demonstrates ability to work independently with minimal direction and supervision.

Req Demonstrates Ability to Manage Staff Escalations

Req Committed to excellence in patient care and customer service.

Req Ability to perform a variety of complex analytical and administrative duties and manage conceptual assignments

Req Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW (CA DCA) Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in state of California.

  • Req Basic Life Support (BLS) Healthcare Provider from American Heart Association
  • Req Board Certified Board of Behavioral Sciences approved 15-hour clinical supervision course.
  • Req Fire Life Safety Training (LA City) If no card upon hire, one must be obtained within 30 days of hire and maintained by renewal before expiration date. (Required within LA City only)
  • Pref Certified Clinical Transplant Social Worker (CCTSW) Valid and current California License.

Keck Hospital of USC, a 343-bed acute care hospital, provides exceptional and innovative care for complex medical and surgical conditions across a wide range of specialties.

The hospital’s world-renowned physicians deliver compassionate, customized, patient-centered care and treat the most acutely ill patients with highly innovative techniques and treatment plans.

As a leading academic medical center, hundreds of clinical trials are currently taking place at Keck Hospital and its affiliated research institutions, giving patients access to novel and promising therapies that are generally not available elsewhere.

Every day at Keck Hospital, physicians, nurses and staff go beyond the science of exceptional medicine to bring patients breakthroughs in the art of caring. Join this world-class team providing highly specialized care, up-to-the-minute research, and innovative clinical trials.

The annual base salary range for this position is $114,650.00 - $189,172.00. When extending an offer of employment, the University of Southern California considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate’s work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, federal, state, and local laws, contractual stipulations, grant funding, as well as external market and organizational considerations.

USC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law or USC policy.

USC observes affirmative action obligations consistent with state and federal law.

USC will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal records in a manner consistent with applicable laws and regulations, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for employers and the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and with due consideration for patient and student safety.

Please refer to the Background Screening Policy Appendix D for specific employment screen implications for the position for which you are applying.

We provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants with questions about access or requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should contact USC Human Resources by phone at (213) 821-8100, or by email at uschr@usc.edu. Inquiries will be treated as confidential to the extent permitted by law.

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Key Responsibilities

The Supervisor oversees departmental staff, including transplant social workers, by managing daily assignments, schedules, and performance evaluations. They also coordinate clinical resource management activities and provide direct patient care when necessary to ensure high-quality service delivery.

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Certifications

Board Certification

Key Skills

Clinical social workStaff supervisionTreatment planningTransplant social workConflict resolutionStaff trainingDocumentation auditPatient advocacyInterdisciplinary collaboration

Social Worker Career Context

Of the 40 active Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) listings this role was benchmarked against, 43% are remote, 35% have no call, 63% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$152k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $137k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed pay$115k–$189kLicensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) median $99k (middle half $80k–$115k)974 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Cost-of-living adjusted pay~$137k in purchasing powerCalifornia index 110.7 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) listings in California755 active7,190 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 43% remote · 35% no call · 63% no weekends40 benchmarked listings
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.1this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 2,010 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Los Angeles

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$922k≈ 8.0× annual pay
Typical market rent
$2,772/mo≈ 29% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
31 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
113.6
State income tax
Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.