Social Worker Or Human Services Professional Iv - Oahu

SOCIAL WORKER OR HUMAN SERVICES PROFESSIONAL IV - OAHU. Join to apply for the SOCIAL WORKER OR HUMAN SERVICES PROFESSIONAL IV - OAHU role at State of Hawai. Recruitment Number 21-0512. Salary: $5,369 to $6,535 per month (SR-22, Step D to I).

Social Workers and Human Services Professionals seek to improve the overall quality of life of people within the context of their environment through the remediation and prevention of their problems, and by improving accessibility, accountability and coordination of service delivery among a variety of professionals and/or agencies tasked with providing appropriate services to clients. These professionals come from a variety of interdisciplinary bases, establish working relationships of mutual respect and trust with the clientele served, and utilize a variety of helping interventions to enable these clients to function as effectively as possible.

These positions are found in a variety of settings and work with diverse types of people. They may be found in hospitals and other health service agencies, social service agencies, schools, correctional facilities, and programs concerned with substance abuse, aging, and family violence. Although work settings and clientele may differ, all Social Workers and Human Service Professionals use similar professional concepts, principles and techniques regardless of the program in which they work.

The Social Worker Or Human Services Professional IV Positions Are Distinguished By The Complexity Of Assigned Cases And Level Of Authority Assumed By The Worker. The Following Summarizes The Types Of Positions Found At These Levels

• Type A:
  The fully trained, experienced Social Worker or Human Services Professional who independently performs the full range of professional human services work for a caseload consisting of predominantly highly complex cases. These are cases where clients frequently exhibit extreme hostility (which may include violent behavior to others or themselves) or resistance to services, possibly because they have been repeatedly referred to or compelled to accept agency services;
  
  have multiple and/or severe psychological, mental, physical, and environmental problems or have become the focus of notoriety and/or intense public scrutiny; and there is difficulty in determining or obtaining appropriate services, and in having clients accept services and comply with treatment plans.
• Type B:
  The fully trained and experienced Social Worker or Human Services Professional who serves as a program specialist under the direction of a higher level specialist or other professional, and is assigned a program which is fairly narrow in scope and/or generally part of a larger program area. Work may encompass various tasks such as interpreting, clarifying and developing guidelines within the overall scope of the larger program;
  
  drafting policies and implementation plans; developing training guides and providing training; and monitoring and reporting on implementation.
• Type C:
  The fully trained, experienced Social Worker or Human Services Professional who spends a significant portion of the work time in direct performance of work typical of the Social Worker or Human Services Professional III and concurrently supervises a small group of less experienced Social Workers or Human Services Professionals and/or others providing professional human services, without having significant program management responsibilities.

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Some positions may provide services covered under the Felix Consent Decree.

• Department of Human Services (DHS):
• Adult Protective & Community Services (APCS) - Assess requests for adult social services; investigate all reports of abuse and neglect of dependent adults and arrange for appropriate services to ensure safety; and provide comprehensive services to severely or chronically ill and disabled adults of all ages as an alternative to institutional nursing home care.
• General Human Services (GHS) - Work with one of the following programs:
  1) employment-related or first-to-work services, child-care licensing services, and economic assistance to eligible families and individuals;
  2) administrative planning, development, and implementation of comprehensive statewide social service programs;
  3) medical assistance; and
  4) vocational rehabilitation services, including eligible individuals who are blind, deaf-blind or visually impaired.
• Department Of Health (DOH) –
  Adult Mental Health Division (AMHD) - Excluding HSH positions, work with complex and difficult cases providing comprehensive mental health treatment services to clients who would otherwise be at high risk for hospitalization or subject to recurrent symptoms requiring crisis services. Positions located in a Clubhouse setting will be responsible for providing psychosocial rehabilitation services to adults with serious mental illness.
• Developmental Disabilities (DDD) - Service clients with mental retardation and/or…