Job Specification
SOCIAL WORK SPECIALIST
DEFINITION
Under supervision of a Social Work Supervisor, performs complex
professional social work, provides preventive and rehabilitative
services to clients and their families, conducts varied types of
social investigations involving the collection, analysis, and
recording of significant social facts, and provides technical
social work information; does other related duties as required.
NOTE: The examples of work for this title are for illustrative
purposes only. A particular position using this title may not
perform all duties listed in this job specification. Conversely,
all duties performed on the job may not be listed.
NOTE: Appointments may be made to positions requiring bilingual skills.
05206 - Bilingual in Spanish and English
SPECIAL SKILL
Applicants must be able to read, write, speak, understand, or communicate
in Spanish and English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position.
EXAMPLES OF WORK:
Provides advice and counsel to clients who may have a multitude
of social problems.
Provides professional social services to socially maladjusted
clients for the rehabilitation of the family and preservation of
the home for the children.
Secures recommended medical, training, or protective services for
clients.
Counsels single parents concerning their own social adjustment
and plans for the welfare of their children.
Works with families to prepare them for return of absent family
members.
Collaborates with staff members and representatives of closely
related ancillary bureaus and/or agencies to protect neglected
children, rehabilitate families, and secure employment or job
training for adults.
Prepares special reports and social histories.
Answers difficult inquiries.
Maintains liaison with community councils and with religious,
civic, and social agencies.
Analyzes social and financial data on persons applying for
assistance.
Records diagnostic analyses and plans for services.
Maintains essential records and files.
Instructs and advises social service workers in the coordination
and utilization of auxiliary services including community
organization and group work in complex situations, and in new
techniques of providing social services.
Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic
and/or manual recording and information systems used by the
agency, office, or related units.
REQUIREMENTS:
EDUCATION:
Graduation from an accredited college or university with a
Master's degree in Social Work.
LICENSE:
Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license
valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather
than employee mobility, is necessary to perform essential duties
of the position.
KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:
Knowledge of social work theory, practices, procedures, and of
methods and principles of social work administration.
Knowledge of problems likely to be encountered in doing social
work with dependent, abandoned, and/or neglected children and
their mothers, with children who are to be or have been placed in
foster homes or with adoptive parents, with persons who are
mentally and/or physically maladjusted, and with patients/clients
suffering from alcoholism or drug addiction.
Knowledge of community, family, social, economic, health, and
other problems and forces influencing clients.
Knowledge of social needs and resources of the local community
and of the State.
Knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations affecting the
administration of public assistance programs after a period of
training.
Ability to collect, tabulate, and analyze basic social data and
to devise social and other plans for disturbed, deficient, and/or
delinquent children under the agency's care.
Ability to determine the need for and to provide consultation
services in the broad field of social work.
Ability to comprehend the economic, social, and emotional
problems of persons who are physically and/or emotionally
maladjusted or dependent, or who are confined in an institution.
Ability to work effectively with associates, superior officers,
professional and clerical employees, and representatives of
civic, health, welfare, and other organizations interested in or
concerned with the broad field of social welfare or in the
several specialized fields of same.
Ability to establish and maintain essential records and files.
Ability to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or
manual recording and information systems used by the agency,
office, or related units.
Ability to read, write, speak, understand, or communicate in
English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position.
American Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as
acceptable forms of communication.
Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as
long as they can perform the essential functions of the job after
reasonable accommodation is made to their known limitations. If
the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the
employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.
This job specification is applicable to the following title code(s) which
are different work week or work month and/or variants of the job class title: | | Job
Spec
Code | Variant | State,
Local or
Common | Class of
Service | Work
Week | State
Class
Code | Local
Class
Code | Salary
Range | Note | | 03732 | | L | C | | N/A | 24 | | - | | 05206 | Bilingual In Spanish And English | L | C | | N/A | 24 | | - |
This job specification is for local government use only.
Salary range is only applicable to state government.
Local salaries are established by individual local jurisdictions.
5/01/1997 |
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