County Agency Social Worker

Minnesota Merit System; International Falls (MN); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sick leave

Vacation

Holidays

Health insurance

Life insurance

PERA pension

Job summary

Koochiching County Community Services is hiring a full-time Social Worker to provide complex social work casework and treatment planning. The role involves intake interviews, caseload management, counseling, and coordinating services with families and individuals. The position offers sick leave, vacation, holidays, health and life insurance, and PERA pension benefits.

Equal opportunity employer. Applicants may apply while still completing their bachelor's degree, with degree verification upon

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in social work, psychology, sociology or closely related field.
• Or a bachelor's degree in any field with one year of experience as a social worker in a public or private social services agency.
• You may apply before graduating, but no more than 60 days prior to receiving your Bachelor's Degree.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Provides vocation/employment services.
• Provides direct services to emotionally, physically, or socially handicapped individuals.
• Provides services to delinquent children.
• 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 par-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.

Education

Bachelor's degree in social work, psychology, sociology or closely related field

Job description

Koochiching County Community Services is seeking a full time (40 hours per week) Social Worker.

This position under direction, performs work in providing social work services on cases involving complex social problems and social treatment plans; performs responsible and difficult casework, directs service programs or provides work direction to paraprofessional staff; and performs related work as assigned.

Koochiching County offers a range of tourist attractions, primarily centered around its natural beauty and outdoor activities. A major draw is Voyageurs National Park which encompasses a large area of lakes, islands, and waterways. Other attractions include Rainy Lake Visitor Center, Smokey Bear Park, and museums showcasing local history and culture, like the Koochiching County Historical Museum. This position is eligible for sick leave, vacation, holidays, health insurance, life insurance, and pension benefits through PERA.

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.
• Provides vocation/employment services.
• Provides direct services to emotionally, physically, or socially handicapped individuals.
• Provides services to delinquent children.
• 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 par-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

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university with a major in social work, psychology, sociology or closely related field.

or

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university with a major in any field and one (1) year of experience as a social worker in a public or private social services agency.

You may apply before graduating, but no more than 60 days prior to receiving your Bachelor's Degree.

The examination will consist of a rating of training and experience based on the information you provide in your application and your responses to the supplemental questions included in the application process. You must read the questions carefully, answer truthfully, and include any experience claimed in your answers to the supplemental questions in the Work Experience section of your application. Any experience claimed in your answers to the supplemental questions but not included in the Work Experience section of you application will not be credited.

You will be asked to verify your degree with official transcripts upon hire.

Koochiching County requires BOTH (Merit System and Koochiching County) applications to be completed.

An Equal Opportunity and Aff... Employer