County Agency Social Worker - CPS Job at Minnesota Merit System
Sibley County (Gaylord, MN) is seeking to fill a full-time (40 hours a week) County Agency Child Protection Social Worker position.
Sibley County duties: Under the general direction of the Social Services Supervisor, the Child Protection Social Worker is responsible for providing social work services for the protection, rehabilitation and care of children and their families involving both voluntary and non-voluntary child protective service cases and including case management services for child protection cases, child welfare, children's mental health cases, minor parent, out-of-home placements, investigations and family assessments.
The Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (CASCW) partnered with the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) and the Minnesota Association for County Social Services Administrators (MACSSA) to develop the Minnesota Realistic Job Preview for Child Protection (Linked) Child Protection Services job description video
SEE EXAMINATION PROCESS SECTION BELOW FOR INFORMATION ON HOW TO APPLY (NOTE THAT THERE IS A TWO STEP PROCESS-TWO APPLICATIONS ARE REQUIRED)
- 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 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 paraprofessionals.
- Participates in in-service training and other staff development activities to increase knowledge of social work processes and skill in application to individual cases.
- 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.
Sibley County Preferred Qualifications
A valid MN Driver's license. After hire, department may expect training and certification in various areas as determined by job assignments.
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.
Once your application has been submitted changes cannot be made. If you have a change in location availability or your contact information changes please email dhs.merit.system@state.mn.us with the new information and include your applicant ID.
Please note there are two (2) steps to this application process:
Step 1. Submit an application to Minnesota Merit System by 4:00 p.m., Friday, December 29, 2022 at this link here: 011-OC - County Agency Social Worker - Bachelor's
AND
Step 2. In addition submit an online Sibley County Application by 4:00 pm on Friday, December 29, 2022.
Unless we receive both a Sibley County & Merit System application you will not be eligible to continue in the hiring process.
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