County Agency Social Worker - Red Lake County

Red Lake County Social Service Center has two full-time (35 hours a week) openings for Social Worker positions. 

Position provides children’s mental health case management, child protective/child welfare services case management, manages foster care licensing, and performs related tasks as required.

County benefits include:

• PERA (Public Employee Retirement Association of Minnesota)
• Paid single coverage health insurance (2 health insurance options)
• Paid life insurance policy with matching AD&D
• Paid AD&D policy
• Paid Short-Term Disability policy
• Paid Time Off, increases with years of service
• Paid Holidays
• Additional voluntary benefits available to employee

SEE EXAMINATION PROCESS SECTION BELOW FOR INFORMATION ON HOW TO APPLY (NOTE THAT THERE IS A TWO STEP PROCESS--TWO APPLICATIONS ARE REQUIRED)Minnesota Merit System Examples of Duties
• Interviews clients at intake.
• Carries a caseload where a need for continuing social casework predominates.
• Provides counseling to families and individuals.
• Conducts complex case evaluation for the purpose of assessing problems and determining appropriate types and methods of treatment.
• Prepares intensive long or short-term treatment plans, which require a fund of casework knowledge.
• Identifies client situations, which require intensified service and brings to the attention of supervisor for help or referral.
• Provides adult and child protective services.
• Provides vocation/employment services.
• Provides adult and children's mental health services and services to persons with disabilities.
• Provides or assists in providing services to other cases involving difficult or complex social and financial problems.
• Interprets programs to clients, refers clients to appropriate community services.
• Interprets social and emotional factors to others involved in treatment of clients.
• Prepares social histories with emphasis on psychosocial factors, adoption, or foster home placements.
• Supervises foster home placements.
• Interviews and screens prospective adoptive parents.
• Provides preventive services.
• Interprets policies and regulations to clients.
• Provides casework services for rehabilitation and care of children.
• Prepares and maintains case records which meet federal, state and local guidelines.
• Dictates findings and correspondence.
• Prepares regular and special reports.
• May provide work direction to social work paraprofessionals.
• Participates in in-service training and other staff development activities to increase knowledge of social work processes and skill in application to individual cases.• A bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university with a major in social work, psychology, sociology or closely related field.

or

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university with a major in any field and one (1) year of experience as a social worker in a public or private social services agency.

You may apply before graduating, but no more than 60 days prior to receiving your Bachelor's Degree.

The examination will consist of a rating of training and experience based on the information you provide in your application and your responses to the supplemental questions included in the application process. You must read the questions carefully, answer truthfully, and include any experience claimed in your answers to the supplemental questions in the Work Experience section of your application. Any experience claimed in your answers to the supplemental questions but not included in the Work Experience section of you application will not be credited. You will be asked to verify your degree with official transcripts upon hire.

Once your application has been submitted changes cannot be made. If you have a change in location availability or your contact information changes please email dhs.merit.system@state.mn.us with the new information and include your applicant ID.

Please note there are two (2) steps to this application process:

1. Submit a Merit System application at this link here: 011-OC - County Agency Social Worker - Bachelor's

And

2. Complete a Red Lake County Application.

Deadline to apply is Monday, April 28, 2025. 

Salary : $29 - $37