What are the responsibilities and job description for the County Agency Social Worker position at Minnesota Merit System?
Classification Summary
Aitkin County Heath and Human Serivces is hiring a full-time (40 hours a week) Social Worker position.
Aitkin County Duties: Provide direct case management services to individuals and families in the areas of adult and child protection, mental health, chemical health, developmental disability, foster care licensing, brain injury, and elderly services. Case management services include assessment of need, care planning and implementation, collaboration with interdisciplinary teams, authorization of client service agreements, community referrals, supportive services and service coordination.
Application Instructions are in the 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 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.
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 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.
Aitkin County Preferred Qualifications
Must obtain pertinent CEU’s required for assigned position.
Valid Minnesota driver’s license required.
Employment reference checks and a criminal background check will be performed as part of the pre-employment process.
Examination 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 dhs.merit.system@state.mn.us with the new information and include your applicant ID.
Submit an application to the Merit System at this link here: 011-OC (County Agency Social Worker - Bachelor's)
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