THE CURRENT VACANCIES ARE IN THE SHASTA COUNTY
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES BRANCH
APPLICATIONS WILL BE REVIEWED WEEKLY UNTIL POSITIONS ARE FILLED
THIS RECRUITMENT MAY CLOSE AT ANY TIME, QUALIFIED CANDIDATES
ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY IMMEDIATELY.
RESPONSES TO SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS REQUIRED
FINAL FILING DATE: CONTINUOUS
SALARY INFORMATION
Assistant Social Worker: $3,945 - $5,036 APPROXIMATE MONTHLY*/$22.76 - $29.05 APPROXIMATE HOURLY*
Social Worker: $4,568 - $5,829APPROXIMATE MONTHLY* / $26.35 - $33.63 APPROXIMATE HOURLY*
Senior Social Worker: $5,161 - $6,586 APPROXIMATE MONTHLY* / $29.77 - $38.00 APPROXIMATE HOURLY*
These positions are in the United Public Employees of California – Professional bargaining unit. Please refer to the applicable bargaining unit labor agreement (Memorandum of Understanding) for potential future salary increases: Shasta County Labor Agreements
This recruitment will be used to fill positions in Child Welfare Services.-
This is a continuous recruitment that is open until the needs of the County are met.
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This is a continuous recruitment which means applicants are only able to apply once every six months to this specific recruitment.
Click this link to hear from the staff doing this work: Shasta County Child Welfare Services
Click here to view the full job description for Assistant Social Worker
Click here to view the full job description for Social Worker
Click here to view the full job description for Senior Social Worker
IDEAL CANDIDATE
The Ideal Candidate will work from a place of honesty, and integrity, and be internally motivated to provide a high level of professional service. The Ideal Candidate will have experience with providing services in the community or a home-based setting, and be focused on linking clients to supportive services, providing skill-based services to increase life functioning, and monitoring progress towards client focused goals.
Candidates will see themselves as skilled professionals, able to contribute to a multidisciplinary team setting. The candidate will work as a team member in Child Welfare Services to achieve positive outcomes for children, youth, young adults, and families in the areas of safety, permanency, and well-being.
Even if a candidate does not have all these qualities, if they have minimum qualifications for the positions and operate with integrity, and are ambitious to learn, please apply.
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The ideal candidate for Assistant Social Worker (ASW) desires an entry level position in Child Welfare Services supporting children and families. The ASW will support social workers and the team with the needs of complex children, youth, and families and will have a caseload of children, youth, and families receiving child welfare interventions and services. The ASW will provide direct interaction and support for children with disrupted placements, with transportation needs, case management, and emotional support during times of strength and times of crisis. The ASW will possess a 4-year college degree that provides an academic background in psychology, social work, or closely related field. The candidate is seeking an opportunity to join a team that provides a network for safety, permanency and well-being for children and youth in the foster care system.
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The ideal candidate for Social Worker/Senior Social Worker will have a case load of children, youth and families receiving child welfare interventions and services. The ideal candidate desires to work with children and families and support them within a scope of work that values culture, family, community; and the core practices that embrace building strong networks for families to change and grow. The ideal candidate will also possess a master's degree in social work from an accredited college or university, OR a master's degree from a two (2) year counseling program from an accredited college or university OR a 4 year degree in social work, psychology or closely related field of study AND has had a minimum of 2 years’ experience doing case management or case work services in a social service or educational/health system in which there was direct work, case management and/or interventions with children and families.
Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:
Assistant Social Worker
- Studies and applies the principles and techniques of social work to a caseload which includes basic types of services problems;
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As a learner-trainee, interviews clients to ascertain the nature of their problems and develop elementary services plans;
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Carries out the less difficult services plans under close supervision where the end result normally is a tangible service, such as employment, referral to a community center or an environmental change;
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Makes referrals to other staff members when problems are beyond level of competence;
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Interprets services rules, regulations, and policy to clients and the general public when within the scope of responsibility;
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Maintains necessary casework records;
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Attends training courses designed to further understanding of the social work processes and to increase technical competence.
Social Worker:
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Carries a caseload of the more difficult types of social service cases involving individualized treatment and specialized advanced application of casework methods and skills;
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Diagnoses client problems and follows through with the more difficult treatment plans with a high degree of independence;
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Interviews clients in office or home to assess needs for service;
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Explains the optional and mandatory nature of social services programs; interprets State, County and departmental rules, regulations and policies to individuals and groups;
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Responds to requests for information and makes referrals to appropriate workers or departments;
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Gathers, maintains and disseminates current information on community resources;
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Prepares reports, case records and correspondence; as an additional duty,
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Incumbents may function in a lead capacity and assist with casework consultation and training for other social workers;
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Assists in developing and implementing unit policies and procedures;
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Acts in the absence of the supervisor or as designated in assigning cases and reviewing and approving case decisions;
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Attends meetings and does related work as needed.
Senior Social Worker:
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In addition to the duties listed above, carries a caseload of the most responsible and difficult types of social service cases dealing with highly complex family and individual problems involving individualized treatment and specialized advanced application of the highest level of casework methods and skills.
When Assigned to Child Welfare Services: Takes referrals regarding child abuse or serious neglect, gathers specific information, determines the urgency and severity of risk and determines appropriate actions to be taken, including crisis intervention with families to reduce the risk to the child; handles emergency responses; establishes cooperative working relationship with families and assists in developing a treatment resource plan with the parents and community resources as needed; observes child's developmental progress and determines best methods of dealing with behavioral problems; assists family members in resolving marital, financial, or other particular problems related to abuse; may provide specialized case services in child sexual abuse or children's group work; refers clients to other agencies and community resources; may advise parents on problems of child custody; arranges for foster home placement of children; may provide court testimony in child abuse or neglect cases; provides leadership in departmental conferences and training programs; may present information on child protective services to community groups; prepares correspondence, case records and written reports as required; prepares and presents juvenile court petitions within specified time limitations for the purpose of removing child from natural parents; provides case management for family reunification or maintenance cases under the jurisdiction of Juvenile Dependency Court.
When Assigned to Resource Family Approval: Recruits, evaluates, and assesses foster care home applicants; recommends placement of children in foster homes; provides training for foster parents to ensure conformance to Resource Family Approval program requirements.
When Assigned to Adoptions: Interviews applicants wishing to adopt children and determines their suitability; studies the background, health and development of children which may be adopted, interviews natural parents and determines their attitudes, reasons and consent to placing a child for adoption; verifies background information on adoptive and natural parents and insures that legal matters have been satisfactorily resolved; in cases of child neglect, abuse or abandonment may initiate court action to terminate parental rights of natural parents; prepares and files reports on case background, providing recommendations to the courts; coordinates the adoptions process with other social workers, interested agencies and departments as necessary; counsels natural and adoptive parents prior to and following adoption and supervises adoptive placements; provides leadership in departmental conferences and training programs; prepares reports and correspondence as necessary.
Any combination of education and experience sufficient to directly demonstrate possession and application of the following:
Assistant Social Worker
Knowledge of: Basic principles of individual and group behavior; the general nature of social problems calling for the general principles of public assistance policies and programs; basic public welfare programs of the Federal, State, and local levels; principles of interviewing and methodology; socio-economic conditions and trends.
Ability to: Establish rapport with clients and their families in working toward a solution for their problem; analyze situations and adopt effective courses of action; speak and write effectively; learn and understand the agency programs and automated systems.
Social Worker
Knowledge of: Social casework objectives, principles, methods and caseload organization and management; the functions and services provided by a public social service agency including basic knowledge of community resources; principles of human growth and development; the laws, policies and administrative procedures of County social service programs; community organization and the social problems calling for the use of public and private community resources; principles and techniques of interviewing and recording in social casework.
Ability to: Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with clients and their families, other employees, representatives of other public agencies and community organizations and groups; effectively use community and agency resources; utilize supervision and direction effectively to meet program goals of the department; communicate effectively in written and oral form; manage a difficult caseload; understand and explain pertinent regulations and policies; maintain current, accurate case records and use automated systems as necessary.
Senior Social Worker
Knowledge of: Social casework objectives, principles and methods with special emphasis on working with sensitive and complex child protective and adoption or placement cases; the functions and services provided by a public social service agency; principles of human growth and development; the laws, policies and administrative procedures of County social service programs; community organization and the social problems calling for the use of public and private community resources; principles and techniques of interviewing and recording in social casework; the psycho-social, medical and economic interrelationships that result in individual and social dysfunctioning; regulations and department policies related to child protection services and adoption, placement services or juvenile court.
Ability to: Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with clients and their families, other employees, representatives of other public agencies and community organizations and groups; the psycho-social, medical and economic interrelationships that result in individual and social dysfunctioning; regulations and department policies related to child protection services and adoption, placement services or juvenile court; utilize supervision and direction effectively to meet program goals of the department; prepare accurate written reports; understand and explain pertinent regulations and policies; maintain current, accurate case records; effectively seek out and use community and agency resources related to service needs; facilitate maximum client participation in treatment and assistance plans; perform as a lead worker over a small group of social service workers; independently perform the most complex, sensitive and specialized casework services in child protective services and adoptions or placement; provide leadership and consultation to other social workers in casework concepts and methodology; deal with and confront hostile and abusive persons who are resistive to change and services; make effective court presentations in contested juvenile hearings; maintain sensitivity and resilience under continuing pressure and emotional stress.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
It is the responsibility of applicants to highlight all relevant education, training, and experience and clearly identify in their application materials how they meet the minimum qualifications listed below.
Positions in Child Welfare Services require possession of a bachelor's degree, including thirty (30) semester college units in social welfare, social/human services, sociology or other behavioral sciences plus the following additional qualifications.
Assistant Social Worker
Possession of a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university including thirty (30) semester college units in social welfare, social/human services, sociology, or other behavioral sciences.
Social Worker
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Two (2) years of experience performing professional social casework services;
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Possession of a master's degree in social work or a master's degree from a two-year counseling program;
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Be a registered MFCC intern with California State Board of Behavioral Science;
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Possession of a bachelor's degree, including thirty (30) semester college units in social welfare, social/human services, sociology or other behavioral sciences AND two (2) years of experience as an Assistant Social Worker in Shasta County;
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Possession of a bachelor's degree, including thirty (30) semester college units in social welfare, social/human services, sociology, or other behavioral sciences AND two (2) years of experience performing social casework services in child or adult protective services comparable to an Assistant Social Worker in Shasta County.
Senior Social Worker
Possession of a bachelor's degree, including thirty (30) semester college units in social welfare, social/human services, sociology or other behavioral sciences; AND five (5) years of full-time social casework experience, including three (3) years in the classification of Social Worker for Shasta County and three (3) years in child welfare services either as a Social Worker or an Assistant Social Worker;
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Possession of a bachelor's degree, including thirty (30) semester college units in social welfare, social/human services, sociology or other behavioral sciences; AND five (5) years full-time experience performing professional level social casework, three of which must have been in child welfare services;
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Possession of a master's degree in social work from an accredited college or university, or a master's degree from a two-year counseling program from an accredited college or university.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENT
Possession of an appropriate California driver's license.
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS
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All new employees are required to have their paycheck directly deposited to a bank account.
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Some positions may require a valid California driver's license and acceptable driving record according to County policy.
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Reasonable accommodations may be made for those persons who are disabled under the Americans with Disabilities Act to perform the essential functions of the position.
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As part of the selection process, all individuals provided with a preliminary offer of employment with Shasta County will be subject to a background investigation, including a criminal history check (primarily completed through the taking of fingerprints). An image of your fingerprints will be captured and sent to the California Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The resulting report of your conviction history, (if any), will be evaluated along with the other information received in connection with your application. Except as otherwise required by law, a criminal conviction will not necessarily disqualify you from the position. The nature of the offense, the date of the offense, the surrounding circumstances, and the relevance of the offense to the position applied for may, however, be considered.
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Based on the results of the background investigation and criminal history check, applicants may then be provided with an offer of employment conditioned on the results of a medical examination, which includes drug/alcohol testing.
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Shasta County participates in E-Verify. For more information visit DOJ Right to Work Poster (Download PDF reader). If you do not have internet access, contact Personnel at (530) 225-5515 to request a flier.
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In accordance with Government Code Section 3100, County employees, in the event of a disaster are considered disaster workers and may be asked to respond accordingly.
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Positions in this classification are covered by a collective bargaining agreement between the County and the United Public Employees of California – Professional unit.
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Employees in this classification are covered under the CalPERS retirement program. Depending on the provisions of the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act (PEPRA) and other applicable laws, an employee in this classification will be covered under one of the following CalPERS retirement formulas: (1) 2% at 55, (2) 2% at 60, or (3) 2% at 62. An employee in this classification will also contribute up to 9.5% of their pay to this plan or will contribute such other amount to the plan as authorized by PEPRA and other applicable laws. Please visit our employees benefit page at Shasta County Employee Benefits for additional information regarding benefits and CalPERS coverage information. The provisions in this flyer and on the County website are for information purposes only. To the extent the provisions of the flyer or the County website are inconsistent with PEPRA and other applicable laws, PEPRA and other applicable laws shall govern.
Shasta County Personnel will accept applications and responses to the supplemental questions until position is filled. A Resume and/or Cover Letter will be accepted in addition to the application form but will not serve as a substitute for a completed application. It is not acceptable to complete the application with statements such as, “Refer to Resume and/or Cover Letter,” or “See Attached Resume and/or Cover Letter” the employment application must be completed in its entirety prior to submission. Incomplete applications will not be processed. Closing date postmarks or faxes will not be accepted. This recruitment will establish a list that may or may not be used by other departments. Prior applicants must reapply to be considered.
Applicants are encouraged to apply on-line at www.ShastaCountyCareers.com or submit an application to the Shasta County Personnel Office.
Applicants will be screened and those considered best qualified will be invited to appear for an oral and/or written examination. Meeting the announced requirements does not guarantee inclusion into the selection process. Depending upon the number of applications received, the selection process may consist of additional application screening, written and/or practical exam(s), oral interview, or any combination thereof.
Veterans' Credit: Veterans (as defined by California Government Code section 18973) who have been discharged from military service under conditions other than dishonorable and who receive a passing score on all components of the employment examinations (up to and including oral examinations) shall receive credit for an additional five points to be added to their final examination score. To be considered for this credit, a veteran MUST provide a copy of his or her discharge document (DD-214 or equivalent) and information as to the type of discharge (honorable, dishonorable, etc.) WITH THE EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION ON OR BEFORE THE FINAL FILING DATE.
Arrangements may be made to accommodate applicants with disabilities. Requests for accommodations may be made to the Shasta County Personnel Office by the filing deadline posted on this bulletin. Shasta County does not discriminate on the basis of disability. If you feel you are being denied service based on a disability, our ADA Coordinator may be reached at (530) 225-5515; relay service (800) 735-2922; fax (530) 225-5345.
Shasta County will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act. You do not need to disclose your criminal history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Shasta County is concerned about a conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report. Find out more about the Fair Chance Act by visiting calcivilrights.ca.gov/fair-chance-act.
SHASTA COUNTY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Shasta County Personnel
1450 Court Street, Suite 348; Redding, CA 96001; (530) 225-5515
