Social Worker/Case Manager - Child Protection Investigator

Closing Date: October 6, 2026, at 4:30 p.m.
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POSITION TITLE: Social Worker

DEPARTMENT: Health & Human Services

POSITION STATUS: Full-time, Appointed, Teamsters Local 320 Union

JOB LOCATION: Government Center

POSTION OBJECTIVE:             To provide child protection assessment and investigations with the possibility of limited case management services to families to ameliorate safety and risk issues.  This position serves the objective of providing eligible activities within the IV-E child welfare post graduate training program.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:

Social Services Supervisor

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:

None

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Provide Child Protection Services – Investigation/Assessment/Case Management Discretion A % 90

1. Completing Child Protection Investigations
2. Assess safety of and risk to children in child protection reports
3. Provide emergency services, including safety planning for families and children.
4. Assess need for services to families and children.
5. Identify appropriate services for clients.
6. Provide court work to include reports to the court, monitoring of conditions of court order, offering testimony, working with the County Attorney, coordination with defense counsel, complete memorandums for petitions.
7. Provide information and referral for services for families.
8. Serve as a team member on the Multidisciplinary Child Protection Team.
9. Ability to do on-call after hours work. This may require phone or in person client contact.  Chisago County provides child protection services 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
10. Provide case management services as needed.

Other Related Duties Discretion A % 10

1. Participate in training and necessary meetings as requested or required.
2. Employee must have demonstrated ability to work effectively and efficiently in a wide variety of computer programs and systems.
3. Must be able to maintain positive working relationship with County Attorney, County Administration, Department Administrative team, and other county and community committees, State offices of the State of Minnesota for miscellaneous programs.
4. Demonstrates adherence to and knowledge of HIPAA and Data Practices in work assignments.
5. Follow County and Department Policies and Procedures.
6. Keeps and maintains automobile insurance and valid driver’s license at all times.
7. Other Duties as assigned by Supervisor.

DESIRED MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Experience

1. Bachelor of Social Work degree. Master of Social Work preferred OR
2. A bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year college or university with a major in any field and one year of experience as a social worker in a public or private social services agency.

Preference may be given to applicants with previous child protection experience and/or applicants who have successfully completed the Child Welfare Specialization within their degree program, including a field placement within a child protection/child welfare setting that serves IV-E eligible families.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

1. Ability to manage issues/challenges of working in a Child Protection environment.
2. Ability to ensure one’s own and client’s safety
3. Ability to effectively deal with disclosure of sexual abuse.
4. Ability to identify risk factors.
5. Ability to establish intervention approaches.
6. Ability to apply integrated case management.
7. Ability to apply professional ethics to the general work situation.
8. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external individuals and groups.
9. Ability to work in cross-cultural situations, demonstrating respect and understanding of diverse cultures and social groups. Ability to respect the diverse values and cultures of families.
10. Ability to communicate in an appropriate manner, orally and in writing, with internal and external individuals and groups to share information, represent the goals and objectives of the client and agency and reach agreement on issues.
11. Ability to manage one’s own workload effectively, efficiently and independently, achieving results within acceptable time frames taking into consideration changing priorities.
12. Ability to deal effectively with conflict and apply dispute resolution procedures, problem solving and negotiation skills in an effective and collaborative manner.

TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT USED:

Computer, copier, phone, fax, automobile, other miscellaneous equipment relative to position.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit, talk and hear.  The employee is regularly required to walk; use hands and arms, to operate, handle or feel objects, tools or controls.  The employee will reach with arms and hands.  Occasionally the employee is required to climb and balance, bend, stoop, kneel, crouch and/or crawl.

The employee will occasionally lift, and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distant and peripheral vision and the ability to adjust focus.

The employee must be able to drive and operate a vehicle.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The work environment is a combination of both the office and the client’s homes.  When out of the office the employee may be subject to adverse weather such as hot and wet and/or humid in the summer and cold and wet in the other seasons.  The noise level can range from moderately quiet in the office to loud and noisy in the field.

The employee occasionally may be exposed to contagious diseases and parasites and/or potentially violent individuals or domestic animals.

GENERAL STATEMENT:

Applicants for appointment to this position will be required to submit a formal application and may be subject to rating of education and experience, oral interview and/or reference check. Job related tests may be required of any applicant.

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position.

This job description does not constitute and employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.

Working Conditions

The characteristics listed below are representative of the physical demands, physical agility, sensory requirements, and environmental exposures required by an individual to successfully perform the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• This classification occasionally involves physical agility requirements such as: climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, pushing, pulling, repetitive motions and manual dexterity.
• Sensory requirements include close vision, distance vision, ability to adjust focus, depth perception, color perception, night vision and peripheral vision; vocal communication is required for conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly; and hearing is required to receive detailed information through oral communication and/or to make fine distinctions in sound.

• The noise level can range from moderately quite in the office to loud and noisy in the field.

Applicants for appointment to this position will be required to submit a formal application and may be subject to rating of education and experience, oral interview and/or reference check, background investigation, criminal history check, drug testing.  Job related tests may be required of any applicant.

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed.  The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.

This job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee as is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.

JOB RANK:

Grade 13                                                                   

Effective Date:                                              Revision History:  09/18/17; 2019, 2026

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