Full-Time Social Worker III, Manual Communication
Job Description
Agency: Department of Human Services
Closing Date/Time: 12/13/2023
Salary: $5,757 – $8,610 per month ($69,084 – $103,320 per year)+ bilingual pay
Job Type: Salaried Full Time
County: Morgan
Number of Vacancies: 1
Position Overview
The Illinois School for the Deaf is seeking to hire a team leader to professional care staff. This position coordinates the emotional health and counseling needs of the students; trains lower-level staff; and collaborates and consults with other professional disciplines to understand the students’ emotional needs, motivators and life stressors.
Job Responsibilities
- Serves as a team leader to professional care staff.
- Provides individual counseling to students to assist in their adjustment to personal problems, academic problems, or residential problems.
- Completes the social development histories through parent interview, records review, adapter behavior scale, and student interview.
- Participates in and attends the eligibility review and individual educational plan meetings contributing to the educational treatment plan for each student.
- Communicates with students, parents and staff utilizing manual communication.
- Provides guidance to the staff, educational or dorm, working with the students to understand their unique needs.
- Maintains case files by obtaining documents through contacts with parents, physicians, and school personnel.
- Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
Minimum Qualifications
- Requires a master’s degree in social work from a recognized college or university supplemented by two (2) years of professional social work experience in the evaluation and treatment/habilitation of mentally ill, developmentally disabled, or other disabled persons.
- Require the School Social Worker Endorsement from the Illinois State Board of Education.
Conditions of Employment
- Requires the ability to pass the American Sign Language proficiency exam at the Intermediate skill level within 18 months of hire.
- Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
- Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.
Work Hours: Mon – Fri, 8:00am – 4:30pm
Work Location: 125 S Webster Ave Jacksonville, IL 62650-1877
Division of Rehabilitation Services
Illinois School for the Deaf Evaluation Center
How to Apply
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