SOCIAL WORKER 4 - MARKSVILLE

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# 194090 Position# 50469482

• Accepting Direction: The ability to accept and follow directions from those higher in the chain of command.
• 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.
• Focusing on Customers: The ability to serve the needs of those who support and/or rely on the services provided.
• Making Accurate Judgments: The ability to form an opinion objectively and decisively based on relevant information and in accordance with established standards.
• Managing Stakeholders: The ability to identify and to respond to the sometimes competing perspectives, agendas, and expectations of different parties.
• Managing Time: The ability to control your time to increase effectiveness, efficiency, or productivity.
• Thinking Creatively: The ability to generate ideas, manipulate ideas, and make unconventional connections to develop original approaches.
• 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

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.