County Agency Social Worker - Cook

Pay: $29.67 - $40.60 / hour

Location:

Grand Marais, Minnesota

Employment type:

Full-Time

Cook County Public Health and Human Services located in Grand Marais, MN is accepting applications for a full-time (40 hours per week) Social Worker - Children's Mental Health position.

Cook County’s employees are part of an innovative team committed to supporting the community through quality public service. We offer rewarding career opportunities with great benefits in one of the most beautiful places in the world.

Responsibilities:

• Interviews clients at intake.
• Carries a caseload where a need for continuing social casework predominates.
• Provides counseling to families and individuals.
• Conducts complex case evaluation for the purpose of assessing problems and determining appropriate types and methods of treatment.
• Prepares intensive long or short-term treatment plans, which require a fund of casework knowledge.
• Identifies client situations that require intensified service and brings them to the attention of the supervisor for help or referral.
• Provides vocation/employment services.
• Provides direct services to emotionally, physically, or socially handicapped individuals.
• Provides services to delinquent children.
• Interprets programs to clients and refers clients to appropriate community services.
• Interprets social and emotional factors to others involved in the treatment of clients.
• Prepares social histories with emphasis on psychosocial factors, adoption, or foster home placements.
• Supervises foster home placements.
• Interviews and screens prospective adoptive parents.
• Provides preventive services.
• Interprets policies and regulations to clients.
• Provides casework services for rehabilitation and care of children.
• Prepares and maintains case records which meet federal, state, and local guidelines.
• Dictates findings and correspondence.
• Prepares regular and special reports.
• May provide work direction to social work para-professionals.
• Participates in in-service training and other staff development activities to increase knowledge of social work processes and skill in application to individual cases.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university with a major in social work, psychology, sociology or closely related field.
• Or a bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university with a major in any field and one (1) year of experience as a social worker in a public or private social services agency.

You may apply before graduating, but no more than 60 days prior to receiving your Bachelor's Degree.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university with a major in social work, psychology, sociology or closely related field; plus two (2) years of relevant experience.
• Or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job.
• Must have a valid driver’s license.
• Approximately forty hours (40) of continuing education every three years.
• Desired: licensed social worker.

The examination will consist of a rating of training and experience based on the information you provide in your application and your responses to the supplemental questions included in the application process. You must read the questions carefully, answer truthfully, and include any experience claimed in your answers to the supplemental questions in the Work Experience section of your application.

Any experience claimed in your answers to the supplemental questions but not included in the Work Experience section of your application will not be credited.

You will be asked to verify your degree with official transcripts upon hire.

Once your application has been submitted, changes cannot be made. If you have a change in location availability or your contact information changes, please email dhs.merit.system.us with the new information and include your applicant .

Apply at this link here: 011-OC - County Agency Social Worker - Bachelor's An Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer

Minnesota is a state in the upper Midwestern United States.