Social Worker

About the role

Norman County Social Service Center is seeking a full‑time County Agency Social Worker (35 hours per week) to provide assessment, case management, care coordination, adult protective services, and service planning for adults with disabilities, older adults, and vulnerable adults. The role also administers state and federal programs (home and community‑based waivers, managed‑care coordination, MN‑Choices Assessments, Obra Level II activities), handles child foster care recruitment, licensing, home assessment, compliance monitoring, and provider‑support activities, and coordinates services with families, health plans, law enforcement, legal counsel, and state agencies. Norman County is located in the Red River Valley with access to a population of over 300,000 and offers a supportive work environment.

Responsibilities

• Interviews clients at intake.
• Carries a caseload where a need for continuing social casework predominates.
• Provides counseling to families and individuals.
• Conducts complex case evaluation for the purpose of assessing problems and determining appropriate types and methods of treatment.
• Prepares intensive long or short‑term treatment plans, which require a fund of casework knowledge.
• Identifies client situations that require intensified service and brings them to the attention of a supervisor for help or referral.
• Provides adult and child protective services.
• Provides vocation/employment services.
• Provides adult and children's mental health services and services to persons with disabilities.
• Provides or assists in providing services to other cases involving difficult or complex social and financial problems.
• Interprets programs to clients and refers clients to appropriate community services.
• Interprets social and emotional factors to others involved in treatment of clients.
• Prepares social histories with emphasis on psychosocial factors, adoption, or foster home placements.
• Supervises foster home placements.
• Interviews and screens prospective adoptive parents.
• Provides preventive services.
• Interprets policies and regulations to clients.
• Provides casework services for rehabilitation and care of children.
• Prepares and maintains case records which meet federal, state and local guidelines.
• Dictates findings and correspondence.
• Prepares regular and special reports.
• May provide work direction to social work paraprofessionals.
• Participates in in‑service training and other staff development activities to increase knowledge of social work processes and skill in application to individual cases.