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About the position
Employees in this class provide a full range of social and case management services to children, youth and families, and others to assist them in attaining a more satisfactory social, economic, emotional, or physical adjustment. An important aspect of this work is the employment of casework skills in obtaining essential information, counseling clients and members of their families, and helping them to utilize all available resources. Work also involves the application of problem solving techniques, providing counseling to maximize service delivery and to achieve service plan goals, monitoring client behavior, and interacting with agencies which make up the service network. Work is performed in accordance with established regulations, policies, and procedures, but employees are expected to exercise initiative and judgment in discharging their duties. Supervision may be exercised over paraprofessional and/or clerical staff. Work is reviewed by a professional social service or administrative supervisor through regularly scheduled individual and group conferences, and the review of records and reports.
Responsibilities
- Provide a full range of social and case management services to children, youth, and families.
- Employ casework skills to obtain essential information and counsel clients.
- Help clients utilize available resources.
- Apply problem-solving techniques to maximize service delivery.
- Monitor client behavior and interact with service network agencies.
- Exercise initiative and judgment in discharging duties.
- Supervise paraprofessional and/or clerical staff as needed.
- Review work through scheduled conferences and record reviews.
Requirements
- Six months of experience as a County Caseworker 1.
- Successful completion of the County Social Casework Intern program.
- A bachelor's degree with a social welfare major.
- A bachelor's degree supplemented by 12 college credits in related social sciences and one year of professional social casework experience.
- Any equivalent combination of experience and training including 12 college credits in related social sciences.
Benefits
- Full-time employment
- Civil Service position
- Permanent position
- Union position
