Location: Centralia, IL, US, 62801

Job Requisition ID:  45529

Opening Date: 03/13/2025

Closing Date/Time: 03/26/2025​

Agency: Department of Human Services

Class Title: SOCIAL WORKER II – 41412

Skill Option: None

Bilingual Option: None

Salary: Anticipated Salary: $6,005 – $8,678 per month ($72,060 – $104,136 per year)

Job Type: Salaried

Category: Full Time

County: Clinton

Work Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 4:30pm, 30-minute unpaid lunch

Work Location:1535 W McCord St, Centralia, Illinois, 62801

Division of Developmental Disabilities

Murray Developmental Center

Social Services

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Position Overview

The Division of Developmental Disabilities is seeking to hire a Social Worker II for the Murray Developmental Center located in Centralia, Illinois to perform professional level social work services as a caseworker in habilitation services and supports to adults with developmental disabilities on an assigned unit. Serves as professional member of an interdisciplinary team. Serves as liaison with individuals and organizations that are significant to specific individuals services. Receives in-service and on-the-job training.

Essential Functions

• Performs professional level social work services as a caseworker in habilitation services and supports to adults with developmental disabilities on an assigned unit.
• Provides services to individuals served and families assigned in the individual habilitation plan including such activities as individual, group and family therapy and indicated coordination with community agencies and resources.
• Completes annual Illinois Client Information System evaluations for assigned individuals.
• Serves as professional member of an interdisciplinary team.
• Obtains guardianship for assigned individuals.
• Prepares referral placement packets of individuals.
• Monitors the quality of care and records for assigned individuals served for compliance with applicable standards
• Prepares and maintains individual review schedules, individual records and various statistical reports regarding individual assigned to the Center.
• Receives in-service and on-the-job training designed to enhance abilities.
• 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 one (1) year of professional social work experience in the evaluation and treatment/habilitation of mentally ill, developmentally disabled or other disabled persons.
• This class is included as an Upward Mobility Program credential title.

 Conditions of Employment

• Requires the ability work after business hours, weekends, and holidays.
• Requires the ability to physically restrain individuals as necessary to prevent injury to individual or others.
• Requires the ability to utilize office equipment, including personal computers.
• Requires the ability to travel in the performance of job duties, with overnight stays as appropriate.
• Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
• Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.
• The conditions of employment listed here are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.