Bilingual Social Worker (Spanish Required)

Golden Gate Regional Center•San Mateo, CA

8h•$59,826 - $79,114•Hybrid

About The Position

GGRC is committed to assisting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities lead lives of liberty and opportunity. This role offers a hybrid schedule giving you the opportunity to work within clients' homes in San Mateo County, our San Mateo office, and from the comfort of your own home. We are looking for candidates who have a passion to work with individuals with developmental disabilities over the age of 3 years old and their families to advocate for and secure the services they need to improve their lives. This position participates in the assessment of individuals supported and their needs and those of their families and develops, implements, and coordinates their Individual Program Plan and completes needed documentation as required. This position has the responsibility for managing a wide range of active cases requiring the skills of a professionally trained social worker, including creative planning and acquiring services for individuals supported.

Requirements

Knowledge of principles, objective and techniques of counseling individuals
Knowledge of normal and abnormal individual and group behavior, human growth and development of family relationships
Knowledge of community structure and organization and how to intervene constructively on client's behalf
Ability to develop skills allowing for independent work, exercise judgment in making decisions as well as to cooperate and work as part of an interdisciplinary team
Excellent communication skills in producing documents in a business manner and conveying complex information in a clear, concise and professional manner.
Ability to stimulate the cooperation of clients, their families, and stimulate the cooperation of community agencies or individuals
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited school of social welfare or related human services field.
Fluency in Spanish to perform the duties of the position including thorough knowledge of colloquial and relevant technical/functional terminology and ability to be speak, understand relevant spoken/written dialects in Spanish, as appropriate.
Knowledge in the areas of: identifying and navigating generic services, objective and techniques of counseling individuals, typical and atypical child development behavior, human growth and development of family relationships
Successful candidates must have access to reliable transportation on a regular basis to visit programs often without advanced notice.

Nice To Haves

Master's Degree preferred.
Case Management experience is strongly desired.

Responsibilities

Participates in the ongoing social assessments of persons with developmental disability and in overall case planning.
Obtains or collects information or data for use by interdisciplinary team.
Designs, monitors and revises the program plan, analyzes data and identifies barriers to individual's developmental objectives.
Initiates and terminates regional center funding and ensures that purchased services are provided.
Prepares required reports and documentation in a timely and accurate manner.
Maintains records in compliance with federal and state requirements.
Acts as an advocate for individual supported and their families to assure receipt of entitled services.
Encourages individuals supported and their families to fully participate in coordinating and utilizing the resources available and reviews and ensures that the individuals supported receive appropriate and effective services from existing community resources.
Initiates referrals and monitors progress of vendored services, evaluates availability and effectiveness of services.
Identifies community service needs or gaps and assists community resources in the development of needed services and improving the quality of services.
May provide outreach services as assigned.
Participates in internal and community committees and task forces as assigned.