Social Worker I​/II

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County of Del Norte, CA

Crescent City, CA

Full Time

Job Number: 24-00018

Health & Human Services – Division Social Services

Opening Date: 07/31/2026

Closing Date: 08/14/2026 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada);
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This is a Merit System Services position. This recruitment will establish a list of candidates to be used in filling the vacancy as well as an eligibility list that may be used for future vacancies or temporary help for up to one (1) year.

Level I: $ 2,045.07 - $ 2,254.69 Biweekly

Level II: $ 2,148.61 - $ 2,368.84 Biweekly

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Note:

For Social Worker I, duties are performed at the entry/trainee level.)

• Conducts interviews with clients, family members, and others in their home, in the office, or via telephone to assess the basic social, physical, and mental needs of clients and obtain health information in order to identify and provide social services.
• Performs case studies and evaluates individual and family case information to assess the safety of children and adults; determines appropriate types and methods of treatment.
• Assesses reports of suspected abuse; may be required to work on-call; may provide information to law enforcement or district attorneys.
• Develops and carries out culturally sensitive non-complex to moderate treatment plans for an assigned caseload in conformance with agency, state and federal requirements; assists clients and family members to develop strategies to accomplish case plan goals.
• Refers clients to other staff members, or to community resources for direct and intensive services and specialized counseling as necessary; advocates on the clients' behalf for most appropriate services including enabling services.
• Assists applicants and recipients in utilizing available resources.
• Interprets policies, rules, and regulations of the agency to applicants, clients and others within the scope of their responsibility.
• Makes home visits in connection with casework assignments.
• Prepares and maintains case records and databases; communicates decisions, timelines, recommendations and case plans to clients, families and service providers.
• May testify in court.
• May be assigned to specialized functions.
• Participates in in-service training and other staff development activities to increase knowledge of the social work processes and achieve technical competence.
• Receives casework consultation from professionally trained staff members.
• Provides community outreach for various agency programs.
• Maintains client confidentiality; performs all duties in conformance with the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Incumbents in the Social Worker I/II classification receive direct supervision from a Social Worker Supervisor, or other higher-level supervisor or manager.

• Pattern 1:
  Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university;
• OR:
  Pattern 2:
  Successful completion of thirty (30) college semester units or forty-five (45) quarter units from an accredited college or university, including fifteen (15) semester units or twenty-two and a half (22.5) quarter units in social welfare, social/human services, sociology, or other social or behavioral science*;
• AND:
  One (1) year of full-time experience in the Social Service Aide, Eligibility Specialist II, Employment and Training Worker II or comparable classification; OR Three (3) years of full-time experience providing direct client services to disadvantaged adults or children in a private or public agency.

• Pattern 1:
  One (1) year of full-time experience performing entry level social work case management in the Social Worker I classification in an Interagency Merit System (IMS) county;
• OR:
  Pattern 2:
  One (1) year of full-time social work case management experience**; AND thirty (30) college semester units or forty-five (45) quarter units from an accredited college or university, including fifteen (15) semester units or twenty-two and a half (22.5) quarter units in social welfare, social/human services, sociology, or other social or behavioral science*;
• * Examples of acceptable social or behavioral science courses include: anthropology, criminal justice, education, ethnic studies, history, human development, human services, law, nursing, nutrition, psychology, public health, social welfare, sociology, welfare, women's studies.
• ** Qualifying social work case management includes direct case work management, such as: assessment, evaluation; conducting investigations of abuse and neglect; preparing court reports; responsibility for a long term caseload, monitoring compliance through home calls and other personal contact; collaboration with other agencies and linking clients to resources and programs; development of a case plan, modification of case plans as needed/required;
  
  and authority to impose sanctions or…