Social Worker, Child Development​/Support

Apply online at Minnesota Merit System by February 24, 2026, at 4:30 p.m.
$35.91 to $47.29 DOQ

Social Worker

Health & Human Services

Full-time, Appointed, Teamsters Local 320 Union

Government Center

To provide child protection assessment and investigations with the possibility of limited case management services to families to ameliorate safety and risk issues. This position serves the objective of providing eligible activities within the IV-E child welfare post graduate training program.

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• Completing Child Protection Investigations
• Assess safety of and risk to children in child protection reports
• Provide emergency services, including safety planning for families and children.
• Assess need for services to families and children.
• Identify appropriate services for clients.
• Provide court work to include reports to the court, monitoring of conditions of court order, offering testimony, working with the County Attorney, coordination with defense counsel, complete memorandums for petitions.
• Provide information and referral for services for families.
• Serve as a team member on the Multidisciplinary Child Protection Team.
• Ability to do on-call after hours work. This may require phone or in person client contact. Chisago County provides child protection services 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
• Provide case management services as needed.

• Participate in training and necessary meetings as requested or required.
• Employee must have demonstrated ability to work effectively and efficiently in a wide variety of computer programs and systems.
• Must be able to maintain positive working relationship with County Attorney, County Administration, Department Administrative team, and other county and community committees, State offices of the State of Minnesota for miscellaneous programs.
• Demonstrates adherence to and knowledge of HIPAA and Data Practices in work assignments.
• Follow County and Department Policies and Procedures.
• Keeps and maintains automobile insurance and valid driver’s license at all times.
• Other Duties as assigned by Supervisor.

• Bachelor of Social Work degree. Master of Social Work preferred OR
• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university with a major in any field and one year of experience as a social worker in a public or private social services agency.

Preference may be given to applicants with previous child protection experience and/or applicants who have successfully completed the Child Welfare Specialization within their degree program, including a field placement within a child protection/child welfare setting that serves IV-E eligible families.

• Ability to manage issues/challenges of working in a Child Protection environment.
• Ability to ensure one’s own and client’s safety
• Ability to effectively deal with disclosure of sexual abuse.
• Ability to identify risk factors.
• Ability to establish intervention approaches.
• Ability to apply integrated case management.
• Ability to apply professional ethics to the general work situation.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external individuals and groups.
• Ability to work in cross-cultural situations, demonstrating respect and understanding of diverse cultures and social groups. Ability to respect the diverse values and cultures of families.
• Ability to communicate in an appropriate manner, orally and in writing, with internal and external individuals and groups to share information, represent the goals and objectives of the client and agency and reach agreement on issues.
• Ability to manage one’s own workload effectively, efficiently and independently, achieving results within acceptable time frames taking into consideration changing priorities.
• Ability to deal effectively with conflict and apply dispute resolution procedures, problem solving and negotiation skills in an effective and collaborative manner.

Computer, copier,…