County Agency Social Worker

Minnesota Merit System; Center City (MN); On-site; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Life Insurance

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

PERA

Deferred Compensation

Vacation accrual

Sick accrual

Holiday pay

Monday-Friday work week

Job summary

Chisago County Health and Human Services in Center City, MN, is hiring a full-time County Agency Social Worker – Child Welfare and Intake Specialist. The role involves interviewing clients at intake, maintaining caseloads, and providing counseling and comprehensive casework services.

Responsibilities include complex case evaluations, developing treatment plans, and coordinating services for families, children, and individuals while ensuring compliance with relevant regulations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in social work, psychology, sociology or closely related field.
• Bachelor's degree in any field and one year of experience as a social worker in a public or private social services agency.

Responsibilities

• Interviews clients at intake.
• Carries a caseload with ongoing social casework.
• Provides counseling to families and individuals.
• Conducts complex case evaluation to determine treatment.
• Prepares intensive treatment plans.
• Interprets programs to clients and refers to community services.
• Prepares social histories focusing on psychosocial factors and placements.
• Supervises foster home placements.
• Maintains case records per guidelines.

Skills

Interviewing

Counseling

Case evaluation

Treatment planning

Documentation

Education

SW/psych/sociology degree

Any field + 1 year social worker experience

Job description

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 includeMedical, 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.

Minnesota Merit System Examples of Duties

• 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.

Minnesota Merit System Minimum Qualifications

or

• 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.

Chisago County 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