Social Worker; Adult Protection

Social Worker Lead

Perform work in coordinating and delivering home and community-based services to qualified individuals. Assess needs through a computer-based assessing tool. Identify potential service needs and make appropriate referrals and recommendations. Determine eligibility for home and community-based services and complete a person-centered community support plan.

Perform work of considerable difficulty in providing intensive social work services for the protection, rehabilitation and care of children. Perform highly critical social work assignments in voluntary and non-voluntary child protective service cases.

Social Worker:

• Provide public information on human service programs to the community.
• Engage clients at intake.
• Collaborate with local law enforcement and correction agencies.
• Interpret Federal and State laws, and implement judicial findings and court orders, including testifying in court proceedings.
• Prepare social histories.
• Facilitate out-of-home placements for children and adults.
• Coordinate preventative services.
• Make referrals to local mental health agencies who can provide direct services to clients.
• Case management of families and individuals.
• Conduct complex case evaluation for the purpose of assessing problems and determining appropriate types and methods of treatment.
• Prepare in-depth long or short-term treatment plans.
• Perform client drug screening requirements.
• Provide referral for vocation/employment services.
• Interpret social and emotional factors to others involved in treatment of clients.
• Supervise foster home placements.
• Make home visits to determine needs of individuals and families for services.
• Interpret policies and regulations to clients.
• Provide casework services for rehabilitation and care of children or adult.
• Investigate complaints of abuse and neglect.
• Maintain case records which meet federal, state and local guidelines.
• Consult with psychiatrists, psychologists and attorneys in connection with case objectives.
• Prepare information and recommendations in connection with court cases and proceedings.
• Participate in in-service training and other staff development activities.
• Attend relevant meetings, workshops and training sessions.
• Provide input for the design of new programs and services.

Adult Services:

• Provide case management services to the adult and disabled populations.
• Complete MnCHOICES assessments to determine eligibility of Home and Community Base Services, identifying potential service needs or appropriate recommendations and completion of a person-centered community support plan that is designed to fulfill those needs and limit service gaps.

Children Services:

• Prepare treatment plans in areas such as family management, marital counseling, childcare and development.
• Interview and screen prospective adoptive parents.
• Provide case management services to children and families.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in social work, nursing, psychology, sociology or closely related field; OR Bachelor's degree in any field and 1 year work experience as a social worker in a public or private social services agency.
• Associates degree in human services or other closely related field OR Associates degree in nursing with a public health nursing certificate, or other closely related field OR be a registered nurse (M.S. 256B.0911, subd 13)
• Bachelor's degree in social work, nursing, psychology, sociology or a closely related field; OR Bachelor's Degree in any field and 1 year of work experience as a social worker in a public or private social services agency.
• Valid driver's license.
• Successful completion of a Child Protection Background Check (M.S. 299C.60 – 299C.64), as amended) and Predatory Offender Registration Check and Sexual Exploitation Background Check (M.S. 604.20 – 604.205, as amended).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Knowledge:
Agency programs, operations, policies and procedures. Principles and techniques of interviewing and recording in social work and the ability to apply them. Individual and group behavior. Social casework objectives, principles, and methods. Social-economic factors, which promote stable family life and understanding of the elements, which affect family…