Social Worker III

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Job Requisition ID: 48039

Opening Date: 09/15/2025

Closing Date: 09/26/2025

​Agency: Department of Human Services

Class Title: SOCIAL WORKER III - 41413 

Skill Option: None 

Bilingual Option: None

Salary: Anticipated Salary: (Effective 7/1/25) $6,589-$9,541/month ($79,068-$114,492/year)

Job Type: Salaried

Category: Full Time 

County: Morgan

Number of Vacancies: 1

Bargaining Unit Code: RC063 Professional Employees, Educators, Juvenile Justice School Counselors and Special Education Resources Coordinators, and Physicians AFSCME

Merit Comp Code: 

Position Overview

The Illinois School for the Deaf is seeking to hire a team leader to professional care staff.  This position coordinates the emotional health and counseling needs of the students; trains lower-level staff; and collaborates and consults with other professional disciplines to understand the students’ emotional needs, motivators and life stressors.

Essential Functions

• Serves as a team leader to professional care staff.

• Provides individual counseling to students to assist in their adjustment to personal problems, academic problems, or residential problems.

• Completes the social development histories through parent interview, records review, adapter behavior scale, and student interview.

• Participates in and attends the eligibility review and individual educational plan meetings contributing to the educational treatment plan for each student.

• Provides guidance to the staff, educational or dorm, working with the students to understand their unique needs.

• Maintains case files by obtaining documents through contacts with parents, physicians, and school personnel.

• 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 two (2) years of professional social work experience in the evaluation and treatment/habilitation of mentally ill, developmentally disabled, or other disabled persons.

• Requires the School Social Worker Endorsement from the Illinois State Board of Education.

Conditions of Employment

• Requires the ability to pass the American Sign Language proficiency exam at the Intermediate skill level within 18 months of hire.

• Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.

• Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.

*All conditions of employment listed are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.

Work Hours: Mon-Fri, 1:00pm-9:30pm, 1 hour unpaid lunch.

Work Location: 125 S Webster Ave, Jacksonville, Illinois, 62650

Division of Rehabilitation Services

Illinois School for the Deaf

Evaluation Center

Agency Contact: DHS.HiringUnit@illinois.gov

Posting Group: Social Services