Salary: $27.78 - $38.45 Hourly
Location : Montevideo, MN
Job Type: Full Time Permanent
Job Number: 011-12
County: Chippewa County Family Services
Opening Date: 06/10/2024
Closing Date: 6/17/2024 4:30 PM Central
Classification Summary

County Family Services has an opening for a full-time (40 hours a week) Social Worker - Adult Mental Health Social Worker.
Primary Responsibilities: The Social Worker's primary purpose is to ensure health and safety of individuals we serve and provide person centered planning with an effort to enhance individual lives and to promote happiness, independence, and autonomy. Social Workers must determine eligibility for the programs coordinated and monitored by the County, as well as assisting clients in making informed choices regarding services. Determining eligibility includes but is not limited to conducting the assessment and gathering financial and any other information required to make that determination.
For information on how to apply, see Examination Process section below.
Examples of Duties
•Interviews clients at intake.
•Carries a caseload where a need for continuing social casework predominates.
•Provides counseling to families and individuals.
•Conducts complex case evaluation for the purpose of assessing problems and determining appropriate types and methods of treatment.
•Prepares intensive long or short-term treatment plans, which require a fund of casework knowledge.
•Identifies client situations, which require intensified service and brings to the attention of supervisor for help or referral.
•Provides adult and child protective services.
•Provides vocation/employment services.
•Provides adult and children's mental health services and services to persons with disabilities.
•Provides or assists in providing services to other cases involving difficult or complex social and financial problems.
•Interprets programs to clients, refers clients to appropriate community services.
•Interprets social and emotional factors to others involved in treatment of clients.
•Prepares social histories with emphasis on psychosocial factors, adoption, or foster home placements.
•Supervises foster home placements.
•Interviews and screens prospective adoptive parents.
•Provides preventive services.
•Interprets policies and regulations to clients.
•Provides casework services for rehabilitation and care of children.
•Prepares and maintains case records which meet federal, state and local guidelines.
•Dictates findings and correspondence.
•Prepares regular and special reports.
•May provide work direction to social work paraprofessionals.
•Participates in in-service training and other staff development activities to increase knowledge of social work processes and skill in application to individual cases.
Minimum Qualifications
•A bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university with a major in social work, psychology, sociology or closely related field.
or
•A bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university with a major in any field and one (1) year of experience as a social worker in a public or private social services agency.
You may apply before graduating, but no more than 60 days prior to receiving your Bachelor's Degree.
Chippewa County Preferred Qualifications
MN Driver's license
Examination Process

EXAM PROCESS:
The examination will consist of a rating of training and experience based on the information you provide in your application and your responses to the supplemental questions included in the application process. You must read the questions carefully, answer truthfully, and include any experience claimed in your answers to the supplemental questions in the Work Experience section of your application. Any experience claimed in your answers to the supplemental questions but not included in the Work Experience section of you application will not be credited. You will be asked to verify your degree with official transcripts upon hire.
Once your application has been submitted changes cannot be made. If you have a change in location availability or your contact information changes please email with the new information and include your applicant ID.
Note: There are two steps to this application process
1. Apply online at this link here: 011-OC - County Agency Social Worker - Bachelor's
AND
2. Complete a Chippewa County Application by the June 17, 2024 deadline.

Both applications need to be completed in order to be considered for this position.
For questions, please contact: Molly Barborek at: Molly.Barborek@Chippewa.MN or 320-269-7447, Ext. 1411
An Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer
The following benefits may be available and vary by County, please check with the County directly to see what types of benefits they offer:

• Pension/Retirement Benefits
• Insurance Benefits, including health and dental
• Pre-Tax flexible spending accounts
• Health savings account
• Employer paid life insurance
• PTO - Vacation/Sick Leave
• Paid holidays
• Flexible work schedule
• Monday - Friday work week, weekends off
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program

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