Social Worker

Job Title: Social Worker

Job Summary:
As a Social Worker, you will provide social work services to children, families, adults, and the elderly. You will take on leadership responsibilities, demonstrating advanced partnership-based collaborative practices with families and professionals, and showing a positive commitment to agency practice.

Direct Service Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain caseload and provide ongoing case management including crisis management.
• Effectively interview and engage clients to assess and evaluate needs.
• Develop and complete assessments and documentation, including but not limited to, social histories, home assessments, and individual or family service plans to treat identified problems. Prepare intensive long or short-term treatment plans.
• Manage individual clients or families to explore, identify, resolve, prevent or control problems.
• Develop and implement safety plans for clients as needed.
• Prepare and maintain case records which meet federal, state and local guidelines.
• Provide required face-to-face contact with identified individuals within the required timeframes.
• Facilitate access to and refer clients to appropriate community services.
• Interprets policies and regulations to clients.
• Supervises foster home placements.
• Provides casework services for rehabilitation and care of children.

Administrative/Process Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintains accurate client records on computer system, prepares reports, and submits to proper personnel and/or agencies.
• Collaborates and consults with multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams in order to achieve desirable outcomes for clients.
• Attends continuing education programs and participates in in-service training.
• Maintains knowledge of best practices in the profession.
• Works closely with law enforcement and county attorney staff in development and follow-up to court cases.

Position Requirements Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of the principles and techniques of interviewing and recording in social work and the ability to apply them.
• Knowledge of social casework objectives, principles and methods.
• Knowledge of social welfare research methods.
• Knowledge of family systems and dynamics.
• Ability to effectively apply casework knowledge and skills.
• Ability to work constructively in the development and coordination of community resources to meet special needs.
• Ability and skill in utilization of computers and various software.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.

Education: Bachelor's Degree in social work, psychology, sociology or closely related field.

Licenses/Certifications: Driver's License.

Physical and Mental Requirements:
Positions in this job typically require: sitting, standing, walking, feeling, manual dexterity, grasping, talking, hearing, typing, and seeing. There is exposure to computer keyboards and video screens. This position is generally light-duty and may require the exertion up to 20 pounds of force on occasion and the ability to lift, carry, push, pull and move objects.