County Agency Social Worker
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Social Work
Family Advocacy & Support Services, Human Services/ Social Work, Community Health, Child Protection
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Chisago County Health and Human Services, Center City, MN, has a full-time (40 hours per week) County Agency Social Worker - Child Welfare and Intake Specialist vacancy.
Mission Statement:
Intentionally honoring history, building community and welcoming future.
Vision Statement:
Chisago County is the place to grow and develop for all generations.
Chisago County MN is a robust area to live, work, and play with small town ideals, natural beauty, and rich heritage that shapes the culture less than an hour from the Twin Cities. It is a unique destination offering opportunities for tourism, shopping local, and outdoor activities.
Chisago County benefits include
Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, PERA, optional Deferred Compensation plans, vacation accrual, sick accrual, holiday pay, and Monday-Friday work week.
- 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.
- Provices 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 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
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- 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 year of experience as a social worker in a public or private social services agency.
Preferred Qualifications
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.
An Equal Opportunity and Affordantively action Employer
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