Job Description
Session: Summer (May-August)
Position Title: Intern - Family Services Specialist
Hiring Manager: Mandy Holzapfel, MSW
Agency: Department of Social Services, Child Protection Services
Location: Eagle Butte
Minimum Salary: $20.28
*APPLICANT MUST BE A CURRENT PART-TIME OR FULL-TIME STUDENT (MINIMUM OF 6 CREDIT HOURS) IN UPCOMING SEMESTER OR IN THE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING SEMESTER. Position Description:
Child Protection Services is seeking a student who is a highly motivated person with a passion for serving the public and displays a high level of effort and commitment towards completing assignments and goals;
What you will do: - transport families or customers to visits, appointments or meetings;
- supervise family visits and provide parental coaching on appropriate child interactions;
- conduct home safety checks with foster and kinship providers and clients;
- possible testimony at a court proceeding;
- provides support to Family Services Specialists;
- develop and maintain effective client relationships;
- shadow Family Services Specialists;
- obtain and maintain information resources for clients;
- organize, prepare and update case files and basic records;
- prepare other program documents and forms.
Qualifications:
Applicant must be enrolled as a part-time/full-time student at a college, university, or technical institute at the time they apply. By the start of the internship, the student should have completed one year (nine months) of their chosen program.
All students are encouraged to apply, but preference may be given to applicants with a standing of junior/senior, South Dakota residents, and students of South Dakota institutions.
Successful applicant(s) will be required to undergo a background investigation. An arrest/conviction record will not necessarily bar employment.
Apply at: https://gen-stateofsouthdako-trn.inforcloudsuite.com/hcm/xmlhttp/shorturl.do?key=4O
*Positions can be filled prior to the closing date.*
South Dakota Bureau of Human Resources
Telephone: 605.773.3148
"An Equal Opportunity Employer"
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