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Job Listing Administration: Children's Administration Title: College Career Graduate In-Training to Social Worker 3 Salary: $2,378 to $3,074 Per Month Range 36 Location: Tacoma Apply by: Until Filled Description: The Department of Social and Health Services, Children's Administration is currently recruiting for a College Career Graduate In-training to a Social Worker 3 position with the Child Welfare Services program in Tacoma, Washington. A Social Worker 3 within the Department of Social and Health Services Children's Administration performs an advanced level of specialized case management in Children and Family Services. This position will be filled with an incumbent at the College Career Graduate level, to be promoted to the Social Worker 3 level upon successful completion of an on-the-job training plan. This is otherwise known as an in-training position. Social Worker 3 specialties include: - Child Welfare Services - Child Protective Services - Family Reconciliation Services - Division of Licensing Resources Investigator - Division of Licensing Resources Licensor - Indian Child Welfare Services - Central Intake - Adoption Support - Interstate Compact Placements In training and under close supervision, the incumbent of this position assists with a caseload providing advanced level permanency planning and protection of children through intensive social work services to children and families. These services develop and implement individual service plans designed to minimize risk to children and reunite families. Case management may include guardianship, adoption, long-term foster care, or other residential arrangements. Positions at this level work with little supervision and exercise independent judgment. This includes the responsibility to devise and manage his or her personal workload.   The duties to be performed independently at the conclusion of the training plan include, but are not limited to, the following: - Determine the level of risk to children and the need for an appropriate type of placement - Initiate referrals for services and community resources - Preparation of court reports and testifying as the petitioner and/or an expert witness - Performing regular health and safety visits for children on the caseload     How to apply: Visit www.careers.wa.gov.       If you are not currently a Washington State employee:   Visit http://careers.wa.gov/SearchAndApply.htm and select new user or login if you have already created an account. The reference code is: *9021*       If you are a Washington State employee:   Visit http://careers.wa.gov/employee.htm and login. The reference code is: *9021*     GO BACK For more ways to get in touch with the Department of Social and Health Services go to the DSHS Contact Information web page. Technical Site Comments: DSHS Webmaster.