SOCIAL CASE WORKER - CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION ANNOUNCEMENT (EXAM #6346)

State of careers Rhode Island•Meriden, CT

3d•$61,475 - $70,876

About The Position

This announcement is for a Civil Service Examination for the position of Social Case Worker. The role involves performing social casework to provide social services in various fields such as public assistance, child welfare, soldiers' welfare, medical or psychiatric social work programs, health, or correctional programs. The Social Case Worker will collaborate with others as a member of a diagnostic or therapeutic team and perform related duties as required. The position works under general and occasional close supervision, with work reviewed for conformance to agency policy and professional standards. Supervision exercised is usually none.

Requirements

A working knowledge of social casework principles, practices and techniques.
A working knowledge of individual emotional and behavioral patterns, as well as social and economic factors that contribute to personal maladjustment and dependency.
A familiarity with community resources and how to use them effectively.
The ability to apply social casework practices and techniques.
The ability to work effectively with people and aid them to grow in the constructive utilization of their capabilities and in adjusting to their specific problems.
The ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with public assistance recipients, children, other public and private agencies, supervisors and associates, the community and the public.
Possession of a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution of higher education with specialization in Sociology, or Psychology, Social Work or Child Development or Vocational Guidance.
Any combination of education and experience that shall be substantially equivalent to the above education and experience.

Responsibilities

Perform social case work providing services in a public assistance program involving the determination of initial and continuing eligibility for old age assistance, aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, aid to the disabled, soldiers' welfare and general public assistance.
Recommend money payments required to assist individuals and family units to meet current and continuing needs when eligibility has been established.
Assist individuals and families in making maximum use of their own resources and community resources such as medical, dental, recreational, educational, and other facilities.
Assist in the periodic case review and reevaluation to determine continuance, readjustment or discontinuance of public assistance grants.
Perform social case work providing services to children in and away from home in matters of family budgeting, assistance in securing economic aid and employment, arranging for medical and dental care, guidance in child care and home management, consultation in educational, vocational and leisure time activity problems, and securing psychological and psychiatric advice.
Facilitate the use of all types of foster home care and provide assistance to children in their adjustment to home, school, and community.
Conduct periodic reevaluation of the need for foster home care for children and provide continuous planning and casework services to families of these children.
Investigate adoption and child marriages and make recommendations as to their advisability.
Provide assistance to unmarried mothers and their children.
Provide protective services on behalf of neglected, abused, or exploited children.
Cooperate with the Family Court and other public and voluntary agencies in the protection and care of children.
Perform social case work in a hospital, psychiatric or intellectual and developmental disability clinic or institution, or in a correctional institution.
Assist in family and community care programs involving placement of patients in homes other than their own.
Assist in the maintenance of social service programs within an institution.
Assist in providing casework services to the mentally ill and people with an intellectual and developmental disability.
Collaborate as a member of a diagnostic and therapeutic team in a psychiatric social work program to effectuate the recovery of patients.
Perform social case work, under supervision, providing service in a medical social work program on behalf of patients in a hospital or institution, diagnostic clinic, in the community, and in the home.
Obtain social data from patients, their families, and other groups.
Arrange for medical treatment and provide follow-up care based on physicians' clinical and non-clinical recommendations.
Assist in a program involving the interpretation of social factors to the physician, the medical social problem to professional associates, and the medical problem to the patient and his family.
Perform special services related to care and adjustment of the physically or mentally sick, provision for the chronically sick and disabled, arrangement and management of convalescence, social casework with the physically handicapped, protection of individuals and groups against community disease, and promotion of hygiene and sanitation.
Maintain adequate case records, make reports as requested, and handle correspondence as directed.
Do related work as required.