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Social Counselor
3 months ago
**Location**: Knox County
**Last Day to Apply**: Jun 10, 2024
**Business Unit**: Social Services / Counselors
**Job Family**: DIDD
**Job Opening ID**: 58329
**Job Information**
**State of Tennessee Job Information**
Opening Date/Time
- 05/28/2024 12:00AM Central Time
- Closing Date/Time
- 06/10/2024 11:59PM Central Time
- Salary (Monthly)
- $3,542.00 - $4,425.00
- Salary (Annually)
- $42,504.00 - $53,100.00
- Job Type
- Full-Time
- City, State Location
- Knoxville, TN
- Department
- Department of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities
**LOCATION OF (2) POSITION(S) TO BE FILLED: DEPARTMENT OF INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, TENNESSEE EARLY INTERVENTION SYSTEM DIVISION, KNOX COUNTY**
**Qualifications**
**Education and Experience**: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree AND one year of professional experience in one or a combination of the following: health care for children, adolescent, or geriatric populations; social work; or social or psychological counseling, including, but not limited to, mental health, correctional, or behavioral rehabilitation counseling; or one year of experience in early intervention and/or service coordination with individuals with disabilities in an educational, social services or medical setting; or one year of teaching early childhood education or assessing individuals with disabilities.
**Substitution of Graduate Course Work for Experience**: Additional qualifying graduate course work from an accredited college or university in a related field may be substituted for the experience, on a year-for-year basis, to a maximum of one year.
**Necessary Special Qualifications**:_Applicants for this class may be required to:_
- Possess a valid driver's license if driving is an essential function of the position;
- Complete a criminal history disclosure form in a manner approved by the appointing authority;
- Agree to release all records involving their criminal history to the appointing authority;
- Supply a fingerprint sample prescribed by the TBI based criminal history records check;
- Submit to a review of their status on the Department of Health's vulnerable persons registry.
**Examination Method**:Education and Experience, 100%, for Preferred Service positions.
**Summary**
**Summary**:Under general supervision, is responsible for professional social counseling work and/or service coordination of average difficulty; and performs related work as required by department.
**Distinguishing Features**:This is the working class in the professional Social Counselor sub series. An employee in this class interviews and provides social counseling for clients in programs such as adult protective services and maternal and child health counseling, as well as individuals with disabilities in an educational, social service, or medical setting. This class is flexibly staffed with and differs from that of the Social Counselor 1 in that an incumbent of the latter learns the proper principles, practices, and procedures for social counseling work in various programs. This class differs from higher level social counseling classes in that incumbents of the latter are responsible for supervisory social counseling work.
**Responsibilities**
**Getting Information**:
- Investigates and/or reports abuse, neglect, or exploitation of adults and/or children who are mentally or physically impaired, or incapable of self-care due to disability or age to determine if there is a need for protective services.
- Conducts pre-assessment/developmental screening to determine needs, strengths, and/or level of risk for client_._
- Asks client, family members, neighbors, alleged perpetrators, or other involved parties questions that relate to the allegations in order to gather case information and determine causes of current situation as appropriate for specific agency functions.
- Asks clients/caregivers open-ended questions about client's health, living arrangements, financial stability, family involvement, needs, strengths and other risk factors.
- Interviews individual making initial referral and/or interviewing family with concerns regarding their child.
- Requests relevant documentation such as educational, medical, psychiatric, criminal, and financial records, as needed, to assess needs and risks of clients.
**Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings**:
- Identifies potential risk factors such as unsanitary living conditions, lack of utilities, any form of abuse, neglect, exploitation or self-neglect in the client's home environment, as appropriate, for specific agency functions.
- Conducts regular home visits/targeted case management to monitor progress of the service plan/client status.
- Identifies each form of maltreatment or needs of the client alleged in the referral as appropriate for specific agency functions.
- Identifies developmental risk factors that would inhibit a child from future educational growth, as appropriate, for specifi
