Social Worker ; PO​/DL

Recruitment Number 26-135LJ
, Social Worker I (PO/DL), SR-16, Hilo, Hawaii.

Note: These positions require a current valid driver’s license to operate a motor vehicle.

This job posting is for the first level, social worker position. Depending on your education and experience, you might also qualify for the other levels below. Please review the Minimum Qualification Requirements on the job postings carefully to see which levels you might qualify for and submit a separate application for each.

Working as a Social Worker with the Judiciary provides you with opportunities to contribute to public welfare and safety. The Judiciary employs social workers in various programs throughout the courts. Duties are program-specific and can be diverse, as are the clients, creating an opportunity to develop and practice a broad range of skills.

Social Workers work in court programs with a variety of clients and issues. Functions may include, but are not limited to:

• Supervision of juvenile law violators, adult law violators, defendants conditionally released from the Hawaii State Hospital, or juvenile status offenders.
• Conducting child custody/visitation evaluations.
• Assisting protection order petitioners.
• Assisting in child welfare services cases referred to the Family Court.
• Juveniles temporarily detained.
• Engagement of family and community in juvenile cases.

Issues involved in the cases include:

• Substance abuse
• Mental health
• Domestic violence
• Sexual assault
• Trafficking
• Child abuse and neglect
• Trauma
• Disputed child custody/visitation
• Victim restitution
• Others

• Perform simple social work tasks in accordance with defined policies and procedures and specific supervisory instructions.
• Prepare case records and reports.
• Perform other duties as required.

• Graduation from an accredited four (4) year college or university with a bachelor’s degree which included a minimum of twelve (12) semester credit hours in courses such as social work, social welfare, criminal justice, human services, counseling, psychology, sociology, or other related social sciences.
• Substitution of work experience:
  Excess work experience may be substituted on a year-for-year basis. Experience must have been of such scope, level and quality as to assure the possession of comparable knowledge and abilities.
• Ability to write clear and comprehensive reports and other documents; read and interpret complex written material; and solve complex problems logically and systematically.

Progressively responsible professional social work experience which involved utilizing a variety of social work skills and exercising professional judgement in the process of assisting individuals and their families with identifying their problems, evaluating the situation realistically, and considering resources and alternative courses of action pertinent to their needs and circumstances. The work typically involves conducting assessments; developing and implementing a plan of treatment programs and services;

working cooperatively with other professionals, community agencies or institutions, in an interdisciplinary team; and evaluating the client’s progress and adjusting plans as appropriate.

Applicants must possess a current and valid driver's license to operate a motor vehicle.

PREA Requirement (28 CFR 115.17, 115.117, 115.217 and 115.317)

Applicants may have contact with detainees in juvenile facilities and lockups, with inmates detained in a prison or jail, or with residents of community confinement facilities. The Hawaii State Judiciary shall not hire or promote anyone who may have contact with these individuals who:

• Has engaged in sexual abuse in a prison, jail, lockup, community confinement facility, juvenile facility or other institution.
• Has been convicted of engaging or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community facilitated by force, overt or implied threats of force, or coercion, or if the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse.
• Has been civilly or administratively adjudicated to have engaged in the activity described in the previous item.
• Has been the…