SOCIAL WORKER 2, 3, or 4

SOCIAL WORKER 2, 3, or 4

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SOCIAL WORKER 2, 3, or 4

Salary

$3,410.00 - $6,136.00 Monthly

Location

Baton Rouge, LA

Job Type

Classified

Job Number

25-001-CONT-BRBH-ADM

Department

LDH-Capital Area Human Services District

Opening Date

06 / 10 / 2025

Closing Date

Continuous

Description

Benefits

Questions

About this Job

Why work for CAHS?

Vision : CAHS excels at making lives better.

Mission : To deliver caring and responsive services, leading to a better tomorrow.

Philosophy : CAHS commits to the philosophy that all individuals are valuable members of the community. CAHS exists to help each person(s) served live productively in the location and environment of the choosing and abilities. CAHS staff works as a unified team to provide services and supports that helps person(s) served succeed in work, school, life, and other endeavors they purse.

Minimum Qualifications

Possession of a current Louisiana license to practice as a Licensed Master's Social Worker (LMSW) or a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) plus :

A master's degree in social work followed by one year of social services experience.

Job Specification

The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be foundhere.

Job Duties and Other Information

Job Duties :

Manages a large, complex caseload of clients who are individuals with serious and persistent mental illness.

Provides specialized individual, group or family therapy utilizing advanced social work skills.

Completes psychosocial assessments on new clients and prepares individualized treatment plans for multi-disciplinary staff meetings.

Manages complex situations dealing with interpersonal, social or co-occurring issues.

Provides timely documentation of contacts within the client chart and carries out appropriate discharge planning.

• . Provides screening on clients with mental health disorders and co-occurring disorders.

Develops with client their individual treatment plan listing his or her goals and objectives, strengths, weaknesses and action plan.

Position-Specific Details :

This position may be filled as :

Temporary Job Appointment : This position may be filled by temporary job appointment not to exceed 48 months.

Probational Appointment : Current permanent status classified State employees may be required to accept a probational appointment, if selected.

About this position :

This vacancy is located at Baton Rouge Behavioral Health's Admission Department.

Licensed Master's Social Worker (LMSW) or Louisiana Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensure by the Louisiana State Board of Social Work Examiners is required for this job.

As part of a Career Progression Group, vacancies may be filled from this recruitment as a Social Worker 2, 3 or 4 depending on the level of education and experience of the selected applicant(s).

Social Worker 2 (pay grade level SS-413) has a minimum salary of $19.67 / hourly; $1,573.60 / bi-weekly.

Social Worker 3 (pay grade level SS-414) has a minimum salary of $21.05 / hourly; $1,684.00 / bi-weekly.

Social Worker 4 (pay grade level SS-415) has a minimum salary of $22.52 / hourly; $1,801.60 / bi-weekly.

How To Apply :

REVIEW YOUR APPLICATION TO MAKE SURE IT IS CURRENT. Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.

To apply for this vacancy , click on the “Apply” link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities.

Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

There is no guarantee that everyone who applies to this posting will be interviewed. The hiring supervisor / manager has 90 days from the closing date of the announcement to make a hiring decision. Specific information about this job will be provided to you in the interview process, should you be selected.

For further information about this vacancy contact :

Thrinacia.Jenkins2@la.gov

Capital Area Human Services District

7389 Florida Blvd, Suite 100

Baton Rouge, LA 70806

Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.

As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program :

Insurance Coverage More information can be found at

Parental Leave– Up to six weeks paid parental leave

More information can be found

Holidays and Leave – State employees receive the following paid holidays each year :

New Year's Day

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,

Mardi Gras,

Good Friday,

Memorial Day,

Independence Day,

Labor Day,

Veteran's Day,

Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.

Retirement – State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to) :

Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video () to give you more detailed information about their system

Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org),

Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others

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Do you possess a Licensed Master's Social Worker (LMSW) or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensure?

Yes

No

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If you answered "YES" to the question above, please list the license TYPE, NUMBER, ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE, and EXPIRATION DATE. If you answered "NO", enter N / A

Required Question

Employer

State of Louisiana

Address

For agency contact information, please refer to

the supplemental information above.

Louisiana State Civil Service, Louisiana, 70802

Phone

(866) 783-5462

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