Sr. Social Worker

This Senior Social Worker position is a child protection position located on the Hiring, Onboarding & Training Team (HOT). The role of the Senior Social Worker joining the HOT Team will work in supporting our workforce, including training and mentoring new social workers in child protection, providing case coverage, helping colleagues navigate challenging situations, and jumping in wherever support is needed.

The senior in this position typically carries a reduced caseload in order for them to be more available to provide support to the children’s division.

This position is a great fit for someone who is passionate about supporting colleagues, enjoys teaching and training, and thrives on variety. You may find yourself:

• Training and supporting new child protection social workers as they develop their skills and confidence
• Providing coverage for a wide variety of cases and programs—from an investigation to a PSOP, Family Assessment, or ongoing case. Helping license a foster home
• Going out with a colleague on a difficult or challenging visit
• Brainstorming creative solutions when a colleague or team needs help
• Stepping in to meet an unexpected need or provide coverage
• Learning and developing expertise across all areas of child protection and child welfare

The right person for this role is someone who sees a need and jumps in, enjoys solving problems creatively, and genuinely values the opportunity to make their colleagues' work better and more manageable. The HOT Team will continue to grow over the next six months as we incorporate MAAFPCWDA services into our work. This means this position will have a unique opportunity to help shape and build a team that supports multiple program areas.

We are looking for a Senior Social Worker who is excited not only about the work itself, but also about helping create a healthy, collaborative, supportive team culture as the team continues to evolve.

• Four years providing Child Welfare/Child Protection Social work in a county setting
• Paid work experience with and providing services to individuals from a variety of cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds
• Experience providing consultation, coaching/training, or technical assistance to social workers and/or supervisors
• Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams

Your training and experience will be rated based on the required application material submitted and the top scoring candidates will be forwarded to the hiring department for further consideration.

8:00 a.m.

-4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday. Work schedules (hours and days) and location are subject to change based on department needs.

$79,705.60 - $ Annually

Washington County participates in the federal E-Verify program. This means that Washington County will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. If the Government cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, Washington County is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact DHS and/or the SSA before taking adverse action against you, including terminating your employment.

Employers may not use E-Verify to pre-screen job applicants and may not limit or influence the choice of documents you present for use on the Form I-9.

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Right to work Poster

The Social Worker, Senior is a lead professional position with significant responsibility for performing complex work in the development, implementation, provision, evaluation and fiscal management of services, programs, grants, and contracts.

Client assignments of a Senior Social Worker may include more complex, sensitive or difficult cases than Social Workers l and ll and is also responsible for the consultation, training and support to Social Workers and professionals in and outside the agency.

A Senior Social Worker may be assigned duties in any of the following units:
Family/Children, Licensing, Chemical Health, Adult Mental Health, Development Disabilities, Adult Family Services, Minnesota Family Investment Program/Work Force Center or Housing.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

This position requires a Bachelors Degree in Social Work or related field and four years of full-time work experience as a Social Worker in a public human services agency and/or a private human services agency that contracts services with a public human services agency. A Master's Degree in Social Work or related field may substitute for up to one year of required Social Worker experience.

Required Social Work experience must have occurred after receipt of Bachelor's Degree.

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