Job Description for Posting Number: MCFH100022
SOCIAL SERVICE WORKER II
Closing Date: August 18, 2010
Education

TRAINING: BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN SOCIAL WORK FROM AN ACCREDITED COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY. SUBSTITUTION: BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN SOCIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, COUNSELING, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS, HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION, SPECIAL EDUCATION, ELEMENTARY EDUCATION, OR SECONDARY EDUCATION FROM AN ACCREDITED COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY MAY BE SUBSTITUTED FOR THE DEGREE IN SOCIAL WORK. OR CURRENT WEST VIRGINIA SOCIAL WORK LICENSE SPECIAL REQUIREMENT: ELIGIBLE FOR TEMPORARY SOCIAL WORK LICENSE OR LICENSED AS A SOCIAL WORKER, GRADUATE SOCIAL WORKER, OR CERTIFIED SOCIAL WORKER BY THE WEST VIRGINIA BOARD OF SOCIAL WORK EXAMINERS. PROMOTION ONLY: IN ADDITION TO THE SPECIAL REQUIREMENT, TWO YEARS OF FULL-TIME OR EQUIVALENT PART-TIME PAID EXPERIENCE AS A SOCIAL SERVICE WORKER, SOCIAL SERVICE SUPERVISOR, PROTECTIVE SERVICE WORKER, PROTECTIVE SERVICE WORKER TRAINEE, FAMILY SUPPORT SPECIALIST OR FAMILY SUPPORT SUPERVISOR.
Job Description

THE INCUMBENT WILL WORK ON A TEAM WITH CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS NURSE TO PROVIDE SERVICES FOR PROGRAM APPLICANTS LOCATED STATEWIDE. INCUMBENT MUST HAVE A THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE OF SOCIAL THEORY, PRINCIPLES, AND PRACTICES AND MUST LEARN AND FOLLOW CSHCN POLICY AND PROCEDURES. THE INCUMBENT WILL ASSIST IN COMPLETION OF CARE COORDINATION ASSESSMENTS FOR CHILDREN FROM BIRTH TO AGE 21 YEARS, WHO HAVE SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS. THE INCUMBENT WILL ASSIST IN ARRANGING AND AUTHORIZING MEDICAL CARE EVALUATION, AND SECURING MEDICAL REPORTS TO DETERMINE PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY. THE INCUMBENT WILL EVALUATE FINANCIAL RESOURCES TO HEALTH CARE COSTS, AND DETERMINE PROGRAM FINANCIAL ELIGIBILITY. THIS PERSON WILL WORK TO PROVIDE SOCIAL SERVICES COMPONENT, A PART OF THE CARE TEAM CSHCN PERIODIC PEDIATRIC CLINICS AND WILL MEET WITH FAMILIES IN THE CLINIC, IN THE OFFICE AND AT OTHER PREDETERMINED LOCATIONS. THE INCUMBENT MAKES REFERRALS FOR SERVICES AND COORDINATED TRANSITION TO OTHER SERVICES AS APPROPRIATE. STATEWIDE TRAVEL IS REQUIRED. OTHER DUTIES AS ASSIGNED.
Contact

HEIDI STAATS
350 CAPITOL STREET, ROOM 427
CHARLESTON, WV 25301

Work located in the following Counties:

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Jacki Englehardt, MSW, ACSW
Coordinator of Professional and Community Education
Division of Social Work
West Virginia University
PO Box 6830
Morgantown, WV 26506

phone: 304-293-3280
fax:  304-293-5936
cell: 304-282-0321
Summer Institute on Aging Website:  www.wvsioa.org
WVU Division of Social Work Website:  http://socialwork.wvu.edu