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Social Worker
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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.
$59,583 / year median in Florida
+12% projected growth
Job Description
- This position is Remote / Hybrid in the Tampa Bay / Sarasota area
- How will you make an impact & Requirements Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.
- Securing relevant information and identifying key issues and relationships from a base of information; relating and comparing data from different sources; identifying cause-effect relationships. Compassion
- The responsibility to put a patient's or person's interests first, including the duty not to harm, deliver proper care, and maintain confidentiality. Compliance
- Employee has satisfactory completed employers required compliance training. Employee is able to demonstrate an understanding of employers Code of Conduct. Communication
- Expressing ideas effectively in individual and group situations (including nonverbal communication); adjusting language or terminology to the characteristics and needs of the audience. Good listening skills. Dependability
- Meets commitments, deliverables, deadlines, work independently, accepts accountability, handles change, sets personal standards, stays focused under pressure, and meets attendance/punctuality requirements. Individual Leadership/ Influencing
- Using appropriate interpersonal styles and methods to inspire and guide individuals (fellow employees) toward goal achievement; modifying behavior to accommodate tasks, situations, and individuals involved. Innovation
- Generating creative solutions to work situations; trying different and novel ways to deal with organizational problems and opportunities. Integrity
- Maintaining and promoting social, ethical, and organizational norms is conducting internal and external business activities. Judgment/ Problem Solving
- Recognizes problems and responds, systematically gathers information, sorts through complex issues, seeks input from others, addresses root cause of issues, makes timely decisions, can make difficult decisions, uses consensus when possible, and communicates decisions to others. Maximizing Performance
- Establishing performance/development goals, coaching performance, providing training, and evaluating performance. Organizational Awareness
- Having and using knowledge of systems, situations, procedures, and culture inside the organization to identify potential organizational problems and opportunities; perceiving the impact and the implications of decisions on other components of the organization. Patient Service Orientation
- Proactively developing patient/customer relations by making efforts to listen and understand the customer and their needs (both internal and external); anticipating and providing solutions to customer needs; giving high priority to patient/customer satisfaction.
- Establishing a course of action for self to accomplish a specific goal; planning proper assignments of personnel and appropriate allocation of resources. Results Driven & Execution
- Accountable for meeting or exceeding individual and/or department goals and objectives. Committed to producing results that will achieve company objectives. Sets priorities and organizes time to meet or exceed goals, follows up, and takes personal responsibility for results whether they are positive or negative. Teamwork/ Collaboration
- Working effectively with team/work group or those outside formal line of authority (e.g., peers, senior managers) to accomplish organizational goals; taking actions that respect the needs and contributions of others; contributing to and accepting the consensus; subordinating own objectives to the objectives of the organization or team. Listens to others and values opinions. Work Standards
- Setting high goals or standards of performance for self, direct reports, others, and the organization; being dissatisfied with average performance; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed by others.
- Bachelor's degree in Social Work from a four-year college or university; preference for a masters in social work. Language Skills
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret the most complex documents. Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints. Mathematical Skills
- Ability to apply basic math, as necessary. Reasoning Ability
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Computer Skills
- To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Athena Database software; Microsoft Spreadsheet software and Microsoft Word Processing software; including Excel.