Family Services Caseworker Ii; Statewide

Introduction

When you join the Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS), you join a team of more than 5,000 employees across the state dedicated to positively changing the lives of more than 1 million Marylanders each year. We do this by providing economic support, preventive services, and caring for children and adults. We aim to deliver services so that we more quickly meet the needs of the people we serve.

At DHS, we grapple with hard questions to find new ways to foster a culture of bold innovation. We do this to ensure that in Maryland, we leave no one behind. This Statewide recruitment is being conducted to establish a list of eligible candidates to be used to fill current and future vacancies occurring in our Local Departments of Social Services throughout the State.

This recruitment has been reopened to allow for additional application submissions. If you have already applied and been approved for this recruitment , please do not reapply; your application remains under consideration. All approved candidates will be placed on this list of eligible candidates in one Best-Qualified randomized scoring band for at least one year. Placement on this list is not a guarantee that you will be offered an interview for any given vacancy.

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STATEWIDE This Statewide recruitment has been opened to establish a list of eligible candidates to be used to fill current and future vacancies occurring in our Local Departments of Social Services throughout the State. Please indicate the counties in which you are willing to accept employment on your application.

A Family Services Caseworker II is the full performance level of work in local departments of social services that provide direct social services to troubled individuals or families and are designed to sustain and improve the social, health, economic, behavioral and emotional functioning of customers. Employees in this classification do not supervise other positions. Employees in this classification receive general supervision from a Licensed Social Worker.

Employees in this classification may be required to work evenings and on weekends and may be assigned to provide on-call coverage. Work is performed in customer’s homes, schools, hospitals and other community settings. Employees may be required to deal with potentially hazardous situations.

Examples of work:

• Assists customers in identifying, developing and using their potential capabilities and community resources to resolve social, health, emotional, behavioral and economic problems.
• Interviews customers to obtain information needed to determine eligibility for social services.
• Assesses case situations to make recommendations to supervisor regarding individualized plans of service.
• Provides limited counseling and crisis intervention services to customers regarding personal, economic and social problems.
• Establishes and maintains personal contact with other social services agencies and community resources to facilitate the referral of individual customers.
• Checks public records, such as birth records, for data and to verify information such as income, kinship and residence.
• Prepares and manages case records and reports concerning information secured and services rendered.
• Testifies in legal proceedings regarding family service cases.
• Develops and implements a personalized training plan to maintain and upgrade knowledge and skills related to the delivery of direct services.
• May testify in court as an expert witness.
• May provide on-call coverage.
• May participate in the investigation of suspected child or adult abuse or neglect.
• May make recommendations to place children in foster and adoptive homes.
• May participate in the initial investigation of fatalities that result from suspected abuse or neglect.
• Performs other related duties.

Applicants must meet all minimum (and selective) qualifications to be considered, and to appear on the list of people eligible for hire. Please read all requirements before applying.

EDUCATION: A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in an appropriate behavioral science, such as:…