Social Worker - Adult Services

At the Department of Social Services we strive to partner with our community to assist, empower and protect those we serve. We foster an agency culture that supports family life and encourages fun filled activities and agency committees. This is more than an invitation, it’s a commitment to offer opportunities for personal and professional growth to everyone! We ask people to grow with us and make the agency even better.

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A Social Worker I assigned to the In-Home Supportive Services program (IHSS) has the primary function of taking referrals for the IHSS program, interviewing clients and completing detailed service assessments in the field, transferring field assessment data into computer systems; complying with State Regulations and agency deadlines.

A Social Worker II may receive Adult Protective Services (APS) training. This may include the assignment of simple APS referrals, taking referrals for suspected abuse and neglect towards dependent adults and senior adults, investigating referrals, interviewing clients to ascertain nature of problems and develop service plans, a considerable amount of work performed is conducted in the field with some work performed in an office environment writing reports and case plans with time sensitive deadlines, entering data into computer systems in order to comply with State Regulations and agency deadlines.

Will work with a degree of independence, be able to work well with community partners and client’s extended family member or caregivers, have excellent written and oral communication skills, organization skills, ability to prioritize tasks, maintain calm and professional performance and demonstrate exceptional customer service working with client populations that have substance dependence, mental health issues, trauma, domestic violence history, aging issues, physical or developmental disabilities.

Conduct initial assessments and annual reassessments in the client’s home to evaluate the effect of physical, cognitive and emotional impairment on function to determine the needs of clients. Social Workers make referrals, determine eligibility for services, authorize and coordinate individual case plans; provide case management; prepare reports and records; communicate policies, rules and regulations of the program to clients and others.

IHSS Social Workers that are assigned APS cases provide crisis intervention in order to reduce risk or eliminate abuse or neglect; handle emergency responses; establish cooperative working relationships with community partners; assists in developing case plans with clients; assist with arrangements for out of home placements; may provide testimony in elder/dependent adult abuse or neglect cases; prepare case records and written reports as required.

Social Workers assist to resolve issues and conflicts and encourage families and caregivers to work with the clients. It is important to understand the actions you take as a Social Worker affects the lives of clients and their families.

Social Workers may be required to take actions that conflict with their own values. A Social Worker must be able to accept clients’ differences and interact with them in a non-judgmental manner, and respect the client’s right of self-determination.

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Pattern 1:
Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university;

OR

Pattern 2:
Successful completion of thirty (30) college semester units or forty-five (45) quarter units from an accredited college or university, including fifteen (15) semester units or twenty-two and a half (22.5) quarter units in social welfare, social/human services, sociology, or other social or behavioral science*;

AND

One (1) year of full-time experience in the Social Service Aide, Eligibility Specialist II, Employment and Training Worker II or comparable classification; OR Three (3) years of full-time experience providing direct client services to disadvantaged adults or…