Social Worker I​/II​/III​/IV

Social Worker Position

Employer:

County of Mono

Salary: $61,142.00 - $90,550.00 Annually

Location:

Mammoth Lakes, CA

Job Type: Full-Time

Job Number:

Department:
Health and Human Services

Division:
Social Services Division

Opening Date: 10/27/2025

Bargaining Unit: MCPE

Performs basic social services casework; identifies client needs for more intensive casework services and provides referrals; carries a caseload of moderately difficult cases; manages a caseload of increasingly difficult cases; and performs other related work as assigned.

Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Conducts interviews with clients, family members, and others in their home, in the office, or via telephone to assess the basic social, physical, and mental needs of clients and obtain health information in order to identify and provide social services
• Performs case studies and evaluates individual and family case information to assess the safety of children and adults; determines appropriate types and methods of treatment
• Assesses reports of suspected abuse; may be required to work on-call; may provide information to law enforcement or district attorneys
• Develops and carries out culturally sensitive non-complex to moderate treatment plans for an assigned caseload in conformance with agency, state and federal requirements; assists clients and family members to develop strategies to accomplish case plan goals
• Refers clients to other staff members, or to community resources for direct and intensive services and specialized counseling as necessary; advocates on the clients' behalf for most appropriate services including enabling services
• Assists applicants and recipients in utilizing available resources
• Interprets policies, rules, and regulations of the agency to applicants, clients and others within the scope of their responsibility
• Makes home visits in connection with casework assignments
• Prepares and maintains case records and databases; communicates decisions, timelines, recommendations and case plans to clients, families and service providers
• May testify in court
• May be assigned to specialized functions
• Participates in in-service training and other staff development activities to increase knowledge of the social work processes and achieve technical competence
• Receives casework consultation from professionally trained staff members
• Provides community outreach for various agency programs
• Maintains client confidentiality; performs all duties in conformance with the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics
• Performs related duties as assigned

Employment standards for Social Worker I & II include knowledge of principles and practices of organization, workload management and time management, phone etiquette and interview techniques, socio-economic conditions and trends, basic principles of individual and group behavior, current issues in the field of social welfare, role and responsibilities of social workers, principles of interviewing and problem-solving methodology, basic public welfare programs on the Federal, State, and local level, general principles of public assistance policies and programs, developing and preparing court report, case plans, case narratives and safety plans in automated computer systems, entering and retrieving data and narratives from automated computer systems, basic principles and techniques of interviewing and recording of social casework, laws, rules, and regulations governing the operation of the public welfare agency and the role of a social worker, community organization and the social problems calling for the use of public and private community resources, basic principles involved in the nature, growth, and development of personality and in-group processes, the medical, legal, economic, and social management needs of individuals and families with special medical needs such as HIV disease, drug dependency, the medically fragile child, Alzheimer's, and the terminally ill, the strategies and protocols surrounding crisis intervention techniques such as voice modulation and assessing the potential for suicide, basic psychopathology, the different types of mental illness diagnoses, how mental illness affects human behavior and mental health services and treatments utilized by clients.

Ability to understand and learn the agency programs, policies, and procedures, obtain facts and recognize the relevance and significance, organize and maintain work detail, establish and maintain effective client rapport and professional working relationships with agency staff, clients, and others, communicate effectively, both orally (phone and in person) and in writing, analyze situations and adopt effective courses of action, interpret and explain to the applicant, recipient, or others public social service programs, policies, rules, and regulations, develop skill in interviewing case recording and interpretation, work within a community setting and effectively use…