SOCIAL WORKER 3 or 4

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SOCIAL WORKER 3 or 4

Salary

$3,649.00 - $6,566.00 Monthly

Location

Alexandria, LA

Job Type

Classified

Job Number

194597

Department

LDH- Central Louisiana Human Services District

Opening Date

05/09/2024

Closing Date

5/31/2024 11:59 PM Central

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Supplemental Information

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 willNOT 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

Minimum Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

A master's degree in social work from an accredited school of social work followed by two years of professional level social services experience.

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:

The master's degree in social work must be from a school accredited by the Council on Social Work Education, 1701 Duke Street, Suite 200, Alexandria, VA 22314.

Job Concepts

FUNCTION OF WORK:

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.

Examples of Work

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.

Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.

As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:

Insurance Coverage More information can be found at https://info.groupbenefits.org/

Parental Leave– Up to six weeks paid parental leave

More information can be found athttps://www.civilservice.louisiana.gov/Parental-Leave/Default.aspx

Holidays and Leave – State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:

• New Year's Day

• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,

• Mardi Gras,

• Good Friday,

• Memorial Day,

• Independence Day,

• Labor Day,

• Veteran's Day,

• Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

* Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor

State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.

Retirement – State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):

• Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video (https://lasersonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Your_Retirement_System.mp4) to give you more detailed information about their system

• Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org),

• Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others

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  CE: Rate your ability to communicate effectively based on our definition: The ability to relay information correctly and appropriately to connect people and ideas.

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  FPP: Rate your ability to follow policies and procedures based on our definition: 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.

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  MT: Rate your ability to manage time based on our definition: The ability to control your time to increase effectiveness, efficiency, or productivity.

• I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable managing time.

• I have limited experience or require assistance to manage time

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  TS: Rate your ability to think strategically based on our definition: The ability to generate insights and identify opportunities for future growth of the organization.

• I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable thinking strategically

• I have limited experience or require assistance to think strategically

• I can think strategically

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  Do you possess a Licensed Master's Social Worker (LMSW) or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensure?

• Yes

• No

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  If you answered 'YES' to the question above, please list the license TYPE, license NUMBER, issuing STATE, and the EXPIRATION date. NOTE: Failure to list the requested information may result in your application being considered incomplete

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  Do you have a Registered Social Worker (RSW) license?

• Yes

• No

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  Do you have a date as to when you will take your test for LCSW?

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State of Louisiana

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the supplemental information above.

Louisiana State Civil Service, Louisiana, 70802

Phone

(866) 783-5462

Website

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