Social Services Worker III-CWS

This recruitment will establish an employment list to fill current and any future vacancies within the Health & Human Services Agency. The anticipated life of the employment list is six months.

• Manage a caseload within the Child Welfare Services spectrum, including emergency response, family maintenance, family reunification, permanency planning and adoptions. May include occasional, short-term management of complex cases.
• Perform case studies for the purpose of assessing and making recommendations on individual and family problems, termination of parental rights and adoptive placements.
• Investigate and make recommendations concerning family situations involving neglect or child abuse.
• Investigate allegations of abuse in foster care.

Minimum qualifications are used as a guide for establishing the education, training, experience, special skills and/or license which are required and equivalent to the following.

• Bachelor’s degree in social work, behavioral science or social science.

• Child Welfare laws, regulations and processes
• Dynamics of child abuse and neglect.
• Interviewing and counseling methods and techniques.
• Community resources available to assist clients.
• Terminology and vocabulary are relevant to social work and social service programs.
• Caseload management methods and techniques.
• Components of treatment plans and their development and implementation.
• Court room procedures and etiquette.
• Techniques for diagnosing family situations and problems sufficient to develop, implement, and monitor treatment plans.
• Basic math including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

• Work and communicate effectively with people of various educational and socioeconomic backgrounds by respecting beliefs, interpersonal styles and behaviors of both clients and co-workers.
• Operate contemporary office equipment inclusive of a computer, keyboard, and all applicable electronic equipment.
• Complete multiple priority projects with strict deadlines.
• Work on-call to respond to emergencies.
• Manage a caseload.
• Investigate and make recommendations concerning family situations involving neglect or child abuse.
• Verbally communicate sufficiently to explain technical information to people of various socio-economic, cultural, and educational backgrounds.
• Read, interpret and explain rules, regulations, policies and procedures pertaining to social service programs.
• Write clear, concise, grammatically correct case narratives, court reports, records and letters.

• Possession of, or ability to obtain, an appropriate, valid California driver's license.

• Master’s degree in social work.

• Two years of social case work experience in a public or private social service or health agency.

• Child Development. Adoption laws, regulations and processes

• Apply child abuse and neglect dynamics to case situations.
• use child development dynamics in assessing a child's developmental stage.
• speak, read and write Spanish, Hmong or other client language.

Candidates selected may be required to pass a pre-employment drug and alcohol screening. Additionally, a background investigation may also be conducted, which may include a re-investigation every 10 years for some positions. An Employment Eligibility Verification using E-Verify may be required on the first day of employment for some positions. Some job classes may also require a physical exam.

This may be a qualifying position for student loan forgiveness through the College Cost Reduction and Access Act (CCRAA). Only student loan payments made after October 1, 2007 and in a qualified repayment plan are eligible. For more information you are encouraged to speak with your student loan servicer or visit: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).-service