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Louisiana Department of State Civil Service SOCIAL WORKER 4 in Alexandria, Louisiana
SOCIAL WORKER 4
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SOCIAL WORKER 4
Salary
$3,904.00 - $7,025.00 Monthly
Location
Alexandria, LA
Job Type
Classified
Job Number
193444
Department
LDH- Central Louisiana Human Services District
Opening Date
04/16/2024
Closing Date
4/30/2024 11:59 PM Central
Description
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Supplemental Information
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# 193444 Position# 50621504
Selected Preferred Competencies: Accepting Direction: The ability to accept and follow directions from those higher in the chain of command.
Adapting to Change: The ability to adjust plans, expectations, and behaviors in response to change.
Building and Supporting Teams: The ability to combine your actions and efforts with others to work toward achieving a common goal.
Demonstrating Accountability: The ability to accept ownership for your actions, behaviors, performance, and decisions.
Demonstrating Self- Awareness: The ability to manage your personality, behavior, skills, and emotions.
Focusing on Customers: The ability to serve the needs of those who support and/or rely on the services provided.
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.
Managing Time: The ability to control your time to increase effectiveness, efficiency, or productivity.
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.
No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.
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.
Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.
Work experience left off your electronic application or only included in an attached resume is not eligible to receive credit.
Applicants will be asked to serve a job appointment period of no more than 48 months.
All prospective new hires are required to pass a drug screen and a criminal background check.
All prospective new hires will be subjected to employment eligibility verification via the federal government's E-Verify system.
For further information about this vacancy contact:
Shawanda Gordon
CLHSD / Human Resources Specialist
5411 Coliseum Blvd.
Alexandria, La 71303
Shawanda.Gordon@clahsd.org
Louisiana is a State as Model Employer (SAME) for individuals with disabilities.
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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Do you possess licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (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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