Social Worker II - Adult Protective Services

Social Worker II - Adult Protective Services

SOCIAL WORKER II - ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES

GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION

• Work in this position is to provide professional social work services to clients.
• Work involves evaluating the client's situation.
• Addresses such problems as adjustment to illness or disability, placement into an institution, rest home or nursing facility, financial concerns; socialization issues of the socially handicapped or those debilitated by age or illness.
• Combines difficult services performed under supervisory guidance with relatively conventional services performed under more relaxed supervision. Work is differentiated from SW I by the range of cases, the difficulty of personal contacts, and the theoretical knowledge required to perform the work.
• Reports to a higher level professional or program manager.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Considerable knowledge of social work principles, techniques, and practices and their application to individual casework, group work and community problems.
• Knowledge of the psychosocial, socioeconomic, and behavioral problems and their treatment.
• Knowledge of the governmental and private organizations and community resources.
• Knowledge of laws, regulations and policies which govern the program.
• General knowledge of medical terminology, disease processes and their treatment is required in certain programs and settings.
• Skill in establishing rapport with a client and applying techniques of assessing psychosocial, behavioral, and psychological aspects of client's problem.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with administrative superiors, members of case load and their families and with civics, medical, social, and religious organizations.
• Ability to train or instruct lower-level social workers, students, or interns.
• Ability to express ideas clearly and concisely and to plan and execute work.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's degree in social work from an appropriately accredited institution OR

Bachelor's degree in a human services field from an appropriately accredited institution and one year of directly related experience OR

Bachelor's degree from an appropriately accredited institution and two years directly related experience OR

An equivalent combination of education and experience.

Salary: $47,513