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SOCIAL WORKER II/III - CHILDRENS SERVICES
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What they do
A Family, School, or General Social Worker provides specialized assistance to vulnerable families and children. Intervenes in crisis situations; evaluates individual and family needs, helps clients get access to health care, mental health care or social services such as housing assistance. Advocates for clients and provides follow up visits. May work with teachers, parents and school administrators to help students improve academically and deal with social issues such as bullying.
$79,094 / year median in California
+12% projected growth
Job Description
Typical tasks include:
Screening and investigating reports of abuse, neglect, or harm. Providing referrals to community resources. Providing support services to children and families. Providing home placement and permanency planning. Providing services to help foster care youth transition to adulthood. Social Worker II is the journey level in the Social Worker series. Employees at this level are expected to carry a full caseload of moderately difficult cases requiring greater skill and depth of job knowledge in assessing problem situations and formulating plans for service. Social Worker III is the advanced journey level in the Social Worker series. Incumbents are normally assigned a selected caseload of the more difficult cases and when needed are given supervisory consultation in development of treatment plans. To view specific job descriptions, knowledge, skills and ability and additional information regarding each level, please follow the links below: Social Worker II- Job Description $29.88
- $40.88 Hourly Salary; $62,150.40
- $85,030.40 Annually Social Worker III
- Job Description $33.19
- $44.96 Hourly Salary; $69,035.20
- $93,516.
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All correspondences, notices and invitations to test and/or interview will be via e-mail through Governmentjobs.com/NEOGOV. Please be sure to set-up your inbox to receive them or check your junk-mail to make sure you are receiving Sutter County's recruitment communications. You may also view all correspondences by logging in to your governmentjobs.com profile and clicking on the mail symbol on the top right corner. Follow Sutter County! Stay updated with our social media accounts: To view the examples of duties for each job description, please following the links below: Social Worker II- Job Description Social Worker III
- Job Description Minimum Qualifications The following are the minimum qualifications for these positions.
- Children's Services classification or comparable class. Social Worker III Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university; AND One (1) year of full-time experience performing journey level social work case management in the Sutter County Social Worker II
- Children's Services classification or comparable class.
- Qualifying social work case management includes direct case work management, such as: assessment, evaluation; conducting investigations of abuse and neglect; preparing court reports; responsibility for a long term caseload, monitoring compliance through home calls and other personal contact; collaboration with other agencies and linking clients to resources and programs; development of a case plan, and modification of case plans as needed/required •Examples of acceptable social or behavioral science courses include: anthropology, criminal justice, education, ethnic studies, history, human development, law, human services, nursing, nutrition, psychology, public health, social welfare, sociology, welfare, women's studies.