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