County Agency Social Worker

Houston County Public Health & Human Services, Caledonia, MN, is seeking a full-time (40 hours a week) Social Worker position.

Houston County is seeking qualified applicants for a full-time Social Worker vacancy in the Public Health & Human Services Department. This position is part of the Home and Community Based Services team. Primary duties include MNChoices Assessments, managing a disability/waiver client caseload, and related work as required.

Social Workers perform much of their work independently. Strong interpersonal and organizational skills are critical for the effective provision of these critical services. Social Workers may occasionally be called to work outside of regular office hours. Individual Agency Social Worker duties may be assigned based on County need.

• 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, which require intensified service and brings to the attention of supervisor for help or referral.
• Provides adult and child protective services.
• Provides vocation/employment services.
• Provides adult and children's mental health services and services to persons with disabilities.
• Provides or assists in providing services to other cases involving difficult or complex social and financial problems.
• Interprets programs to clients, refers clients to appropriate community services.
• Interprets social and emotional factors to others involved in 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 paraprofessionals.
• Participates in in-service training and other staff development activities to increase knowledge of social work processes and skill in application to individual cases.

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university with a major in social work, psychology, sociology or closely related field.
• 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.

Current MN Social Work License

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.

In order to be included on the correct eligibility list, you must indicate your willingness to consider a position in the area of child protection when applying.

An Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer