Social Worker - Tucson

Arizona State University

Social Worker - Tucson

Off-Campus: Other AZ Locations

JR101964

End Date: February 21, 2025 (20 days left to apply)

Apply before midnight Arizona time

Job Description:

Salary: The salary range for this position is $50,000 to $60,000 depending on experience.

The Center for Child Well-Being's Child Welfare and Education Program is currently seeking to hire a Social Worker for their Tucson, Arizona location. The mission of ASU’s Center for Child Well-Being is to advance child and family well-being. We believe society can collectively overcome challenges and make a difference by ensuring the health and well-being of its children. Drawing upon the expertise of faculty from across ASU's research enterprise, we work to increase resilience among families and to build safer and more vibrant communities for young people.

Child Welfare Education Program

The Child Welfare Education Program at ASU is a collaborative effort between Arizona State University, School of Social Work and the Arizona Department of Child Safety. The program is funded by the Child Welfare Field Education and Student Support Project, a federal Title IV-E training grant. The mission of the program is to prepare Social Work students to empower families and promote the safety, permanency, and well-being of the children involved in Arizona's public child welfare system.   

The ASU Child Welfare Education Units manage DCS on-going cases as contracted providers. The units are usually embedded within DCS Sections. While the staff in the units are ASU employees, they work in DCS environments. The Units typically consist of a Supervisor and one to two Social Workers. The Social Workers in the units are assigned about 10 to 12 DCS on-going cases. MSW and BSW Child Welfare students are placed in the units for their Social Work practicums (internships). The units can usually accommodate up to eight students at a time and students are in the unit year-round. Through working the cases, the unit staff teach the students the competencies of Child Welfare Social Work.   

Social Worker Job Description 

• The Social Worker position in a Child Welfare Education Unit is a full-time, benefits eligible position. The available position is in the Tucson Unit in the DCS Pima Region. 
• The Social Worker in a Child Welfare Education Unit is responsible for instructing and coaching students while managing DCS on-going cases consistent with DCS policies and standards for practice. The Social Workers model and teach skills in engagement, assessment, and intervention and they apply Social Work frameworks and theory in the context of child welfare practice.  
• Social Workers also coach students in skill development, provide feedback to students on their performance, actively use critical discourse to promote social justice and students’ critical thinking skills, mentor students in their professional development, teach students the technical and legal knowledge competencies associated with child welfare practice, and prepare students for the professional role of a DCS Specialist. 
• While students in the unit provide support on cases, the Social Worker is responsible for ensuring family engagement and child safety and for promoting the permanency and well-being of the children on her/his/their caseload. Social Workers are thus responsible for providing culturally relevant services and supports to parents, children, and caregivers, collaborating with families in the creation of case plans, completing formal child safety assessments, writing court reports, testifying in court proceedings, writing case notes, seeing all children on their case load in their current home at least once monthly, making active efforts to engage all parents, engaging extended family, maintaining children’s important connections, making active efforts to promote the emotional, social, developmental, relational, physical, and educational well-being of the children of their caseload, and making decisions about the best interests of children.   

Essential Duties:

• Modeling best practice approaches in client engagement, interviewing, assessment, and case planning
• Modeling and coaching students in solution focused approaches, motivational interviewing, and narrative approaches. 
• Teaching and supervising BSW and MSW students in accordance with the competency framework for practicum education
• Promoting students’ acquisition of frameworks that view both problems and solutions through relational and resiliency theories
• Utilizing oppression-informed and trauma-informed perspectives in decision-making, engagement, assessment, and intervention
• Promoting students’ acquisition of strategies to become more self-aware of biases, mitigate the influence of biases, and advance social justice  
• Evaluating student performance and providing feedback
• Mentoring students in their professional development
• Assessing safety and risk in families and environments
• Ensuring child safety
• Promoting children’s relational, cultural, and ecological permanency and well-being
• Applying the SAFE AZ Model in decision-making and documentation  
• Collaborating with families
• Advocating for parents, children, families, and caregivers
• Teaming with providers
• Identifying resources and referring families to relevant services
• Documenting case notes and safety assessments 
• Writing case plans and court reports and testifying in legal proceedings. 
• Conducting home visits with children, parents, and caregivers
• Complying with DCS policies, procedures, and standards of practice
• Assisting in the development of trainings and presentations for students and staff
• Representing the ASU Child Welfare Education Program in the community and at community events
• Attending Child Welfare staff meetings, DCS meetings, and interagency meetings

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience as a DCS Specialist within the past 5 years
• Knowledge of the SAFE AZ model and ability to apply it to decision-making
• Evidence of ability to engage, assess, and intervene with parents, children, families, and caregivers
• Evidence of ability to apply resilience and relational theories to problems and solution-seeking
• Evidence of ability to teach and model the inclusion of oppression-informed and trauma-informed perspectives
• Evidence of ability to utilize, teach, and coach solution-focused, motivational interviewing, and narrative approaches in work with children and families
• Evidence of ability to provide meaningful feedback to students and coach them in skill development and critical thinking
• Evidence of professionalism, time management skills, writing competency, excellent communication skills, and critical thinking

Working Environment:

THIS POSITION IS LOCATED AT OUR TUCSON OFFICE.

Activities are generally performed in an environmentally controlled office setting subject to extended periods of sitting, keyboarding, and manipulating a computer mouse; required to stand for varying lengths of time and walk moderate distances to perform work. Frequent bending, reaching, lifting, pushing and pulling up to 25 pounds. Regular activities require ability to quickly change priorities, which may include and/or are subject to resolution of conflicts. Evidence of effective communication skills; Regular use of standard office equipment including, but not limited to: computer workstation/laptop (keyboard, monitor, mouse), printer, fax, calculator, copier, telephone and associated computer/technology peripherals.; Receives regular review of completed work activities to ensure adherence to established standards and objectives.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree and three (3) years of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

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