SOCIAL WORKER 4 - AD

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SOCIAL WORKER 4 - AD

Salary

$3,904.00 - $7,025.00 Monthly

Location

Alexandria, LA

Job Type

Classified

Job Number

193618

Department

LDH- Central Louisiana Human Services District

Opening Date

04/18/2024

Closing Date

5/2/2024 11:59 PM Central

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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# 193618 Position# 50343967

This position is located in our Behavioral Health Department in Alexandria in our Addictive Disorder Department.

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:

Accepting Direction: The ability to accept and follow directions from those higher in the chain of command.

Acting with Ethics and Integrity: The ability to be consistent, honest, and a trustworthy steward of State resources.

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.

Focusing on Customers: The ability to serve the needs of those who support and/or rely on the services provided.

Learning Actively: The ability to acquire necessary knowledge and skills to improve performance and achieve organizational goals.

Solving Problems: The ability to discover solutions to problems.

Thinking Critically: The ability to objectively question, analyze, interpret, and evaluate information to form a conclusion.

Using Data: The ability to use relevant and valid data to inform a recommendation for action.

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 scoreis 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 three years of professional level social services experience.

NECESSARY SPECIAL REQUIREMENT:

Licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) by the Louisiana State Board of Social Work Examiners as required by law.

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 serve as a licensed Clinical Social Worker and to provide independent assessment, implementation as case manager of treatment plans, and independent counseling with a minimum of supervision with a concentration on clients or offenders with specialized/atypical cases.

Level of Work:

Advanced.

Supervision Received:

Broad review from a higher-level social worker, facility manager, or administrator.

Supervision Exercised:

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 the Social Worker 3 by the presence of licensure as a Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).

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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  ADi: Rate your ability to accept direction based on our definition: The ability to accept and follow directions from those higher in the chain of command. 1= I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable accepting direction 2= I have limited experience or require assistance to accept direction 3= I can accept direction 4= I can accept directions and help others improve their ability to accept direction

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  AEI: Rate your ability to act with ethics and integrity based on our definition: The ability to be consistent, honest, and a trustworthy steward of State resources. 1= I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable acting with ethics and integrity 2= I have limited experience or require assistance to act with ethics and integrity 3= I can act with ethics and integrity 4= I can act with ethics and integrity and help others improve their ability to act with ethics and integrity

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  BST: Rate your ability to build and support teams based on our definition: The ability to combine your actions and efforts with others to work toward achieving a common goal. 1= I have no experience and/or am uncomfortable building and supporting teams 2= I have limited experience or require assistance to build and support teams 3= I can build and support teams 4= I can build and support teams and help others improve their ability to build and support teams

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  Do you possess licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) by the Louisiana State Board of Social Work Examiners?

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• No

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  If you answered 'Yes' to the previous question, please enter the original issue date and expiration date of your license below. If you answered 'No,' please enter N/A.

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Phone

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