Social Worker V - Women's Community Correctional Center - Oahu

Recruitment Number 26-0168. Vacancy is with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in Waimanalo/Kailua. Salary: $6,043 to $7,351 per month (SR-24, Step D to I).

• Type A:
  Unit supervisors with full technical and administrative responsibility over a group of subordinate social workers and other professional staff. Responsible for planning, organizing, and directing unit activities to meet program objectives, assigning, reviewing, and evaluating staff work, providing technical guidance, staff training and development, counseling, and disciplinary actions.
• Type B:
  Program specialists or staff consultants assigned to new or existing programs or major segments of large programs. Responsibilities include monitoring program relevance, developing and evaluating program components in response to policy changes, creating staff training materials and programs, implementing training; may provide direction to lower‑level specialists or serve as team leaders.

Basic

Education:

• Social Worker:
  Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in social work from a Council on Social Work Education accredited program, or a doctoral degree from an accredited institution.
• Human Services Professional:
  Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four‑year college or university with a minimum of 12 semester credit hours in counseling, criminal justice, human services, psychology, social work, social welfare, sociology, or other behavioral sciences.

Specialized

Experience:

• Social Worker – Bachelor’s degree: 3 years;
  Master’s degree: 2 years;
  Ph.D. degree: 1 year.
• Human Services Professional: 3½ years.

Additional requirements include drug screening and an intensive background check. Substitutions are allowed as defined in the Minimum Qualification Requirements.

The State of Hawaii requires applicants to be citizens, nationals or permanent resident aliens of the United States, or eligible under federal law for unrestricted employment in the United States.

Applicants must not have engaged in sexual abuse in a correctional facility or have any criminal or civil action indicating such conduct as required by the Prison Rape Elimination Act.

The State of Hawai‘i complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.