1 SOCIAL WORKER 3 or 4 Job in Alexandria, LA
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State of Louisiana is Hiring a SOCIAL WORKER 3 or 4 Near Alexandria, LA
CENTRAL LOUISIANA HUMAN SERVICES DISTRICT
CLHSD oversees delivery of mental health, substance use and intellectual and developmental disability services in our 8-parish area: Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, Grant, LaSalle, Rapides, Vernon and Winn.
Job# 194597 Position# 50621504
This position is located in our Behavioral Health Department in Alexandria in our Mental Health Department.
NECESSARY SPECIAL REQUIREMENT:Positions require possession of Licensure as a Licensed Master's Social Worker (LMSW) or Licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) by the Louisiana State Board of Social Work Examiners.NOTE: Licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) is required in order to qualify for the Social Worker 4. There is no substitution for this requirement.Selected Preferred Competencies:
- Acting Decisively: The ability to make decisions quickly and effectively.
- Building and Supporting Teams: The ability to combine your actions and efforts with others to work toward achieving a common goal.
- Communicating Effectively: The ability to relay information correctly and appropriately to connect people and ideas.
- Developing Plans: The ability to prioritize tasks and competing demands to create accurate plans.
- Following Policies and Procedures: The ability to comply with policies and procedures of the organization as well as State Civil Service rules, and all applicable federal and state laws.
- Influencing Others: The ability to have an intentional effect on aligning stakeholder opinions and behaviors with the goals of the organization.
- Managing Conflict: The ability to recognize and navigate disagreements in a rational, unbiased, and productive way.
- Managing Meetings: The ability to conduct a meeting and manage others to accomplish the results needed in the allotted amount of time.
- Managing Time: The ability to control your time to increase effectiveness, efficiency, or productivity.
- Thinking Strategically: The ability to generate insights and identify opportunities for future growth of the organization.
You must include all relevant education and experience on your official State application. You must describe your actual duties as you will not be qualified based on job title alone. A resume upload will NOT populate your information into your application.
Work experience left off your electronic application or only included in an attached resume is not eligible to receive credit.
All prospective new hires are required to pass a drug screening and a criminal background check.
All prospective new hires will be subjected to employment eligibility verification via the federal government's E-Verify system.
Applicants will be asked to serve a probationary period of not less than 12 months and not more than 24 months.
No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
To apply for this vacancy, click on the "Apply" link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.
For further information about this vacancy contact: Shawanda Gordon
CLHSD / Human Resources Specialist
Shawanda.Gordon@clahsd.org
To provide social work services.LEVEL OF WORK:
Advanced.SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
Broad review from a higher-level social worker, facility manager, or administrator.SUPERVISION EXERCISED:
May serve as a lead-worker of an interdisciplinary team or unit. May provide functional supervision over lower level social workers and professionals in other disciplines.LOCATION OF WORK:
Department of Health and Hospitals; LSU-Health Sciences Centers, Acute Care Hospitals, Medical Schools; Veterans Affairs; Department of Corrections.JOB DISTINCTIONS:
Differs from a Social Worker 2 by the presence of responsibility for specialized caseloads, lead-worker duties, or coordinating a specialized program for a facility/area/region.Differs from the Social Worker 4 by the absence of licensure as a Clinical Social Worker.Differs from the Social Worker 5-A by the absence of responsibility of serving as sole social worker of a facility having full managerial responsibility over a facility's social services program.Differs from the Social Worker 5-B by the absence of direct supervisory responsibilities.Provides psychosocial evaluation aimed at identifying the special problems and needs manifested in specific high risk populations, such as abused children and adults, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, neurological trauma or disease, acute and chronic psychiatric diagnoses, abusive parents, and offenders.
Develops and implements complex individualized case management plans of service and social work treatment to address identified needs, problems, and behavioral/emotional reactions of patients and families.
Provides specialized individual, group or family therapy requiring advanced diagnostic and treatment intervention skills in complex situations involving interpersonal, social, financial, legal, and/or health dimensions.
Participates in planning staff development activities to increase ability to deal with practice problems relating to working with individuals, families, groups, and communities.
Provides consultation to interdisciplinary staff, other Social Service or Social Work Staff, and community agencies regarding the psychosocial aspects of service to assigned population.
Prepares required social work reports such as assessments, case summaries, social histories and counseling reports, progress reports, discharge plans or summaries.
Provides expert testimony and/or advocacy representation for clients in court cases.
May conduct special projects related to assigned high-risk groups.
May conduct group therapy sessions for the support, education, and problem resolution of assigned population.
Interviews assigned cases for mental status examinations, as requested, to the parole board.
Serves as member of initial Classification Board on inmates arriving at correctional facility and makes appropriate referrals for treatment to other mental health team professionals for these inmates.
Serves as a member of Cell Block Review Boards and Reclassification Board, providing mental health information as it pertains to inmate housing and work assignments; participates as a member of the disciplinary board when assigned.
Job Summary
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Public Administration
$59k-72k (estimate)
05/10/2024
05/31/2024
louisiana.gov
BATON ROUGE, LA
15,000 - 50,000
Private
BOBBY JINDAL
$10B - $50B
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