What are the responsibilities and job description for the County Agency Social Worker - Clearwater County position at Minnesota Merit System?
Clearwater County Department of Human Services is accepting applications for a full-time (40 hours per week) Social Worker to provide services in the areas of Intake, Child Protection Assessment and Investigation, Vulnerable Adult Investigations, and Children's Case Management by working with individuals and families through advocacy, resource referrals, assessment of needs, and coordination of services.
Clearwater County Department of Human Services offers a comprehensive benefit package including health, dental, vision, life, long term disability, accident, illness and hospital insurance, medical and day care savings accounts such as Flex, VEBA and HSA as well as paid holidays, vacation and sick leave.
Please see the Examination Process section below for details on how to apply.Minnesota Merit System 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 vocation/employment services.
• Provides direct services to emotionally, physically, or socially handicapped individuals.
• Provides services to delinquent children.
• 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 par-professionals.
• Participates in in-service training and other staff development activities to increase knowledge of social work processes and skill in application to individual cases.• 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 year of experience as a social worker in a public or private social services agency.
NOTE: You may apply before graduating, but no more than 60 days prior to receiving your Bachelor's Degree.
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.
To Apply for this Vacancy:
Submit an application for the Social Worker posting by applying at this link: 011-OC - County Agency Social Worker-Bachelor's
Further information regarding the position and benefits is available by calling Jamie Halverson at 218-694-6164.
Clearwater County Department of Human Services offers a comprehensive benefit package including health, dental, vision, life, long term disability, accident, illness and hospital insurance, medical and day care savings accounts such as Flex, VEBA and HSA as well as paid holidays, vacation and sick leave.
Clearwater County is in northwestern Minnesota and is home to Lake Itasca, the source of the Mississippi River. Lake Itasca is in Itasca State Park in south-eastern Clearwater County and is notable for being the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Established in 1891, Itasca State Park is Minnesota’s oldest state park and second oldest in the United States. It is famous as the location of the Mississippi headwaters but was originally created to protect the magnificent, old-growth pine trees from logging. There is unlimited opportunity to take advantage of the beautiful outdoors, whether you prefer hunting, fishing, snowshoeing or birdwatching, there is something for everyone!
Please see the Examination Process section below for details on how to apply.Minnesota Merit System 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 vocation/employment services.
• Provides direct services to emotionally, physically, or socially handicapped individuals.
• Provides services to delinquent children.
• 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 par-professionals.
• Participates in in-service training and other staff development activities to increase knowledge of social work processes and skill in application to individual cases.• 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 year of experience as a social worker in a public or private social services agency.
NOTE: You may apply before graduating, but no more than 60 days prior to receiving your Bachelor's Degree.
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.
To Apply for this Vacancy:
Submit an application for the Social Worker posting by applying at this link: 011-OC - County Agency Social Worker-Bachelor's
Further information regarding the position and benefits is available by calling Jamie Halverson at 218-694-6164.
An Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer
Salary : $31 - $40
