SOCIAL WORKER III

Job Requisition ID: 54655

Opening Date: 04/15/2026

Closing Date: 04/29/2026

Agency: Department of Juvenile Justice

Class Title: SOCIAL WORKER III (41413)

Skill Option: None

Bilingual Option: None

Salary: Anticipated Starting Salary (Effective 7/1/26) $7,121 a month; Full Range $7,121 - $10,323 a month

Job Type: Salaried

Category: Full Time

County: DuPage

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:

This position is a union position; therefore, provisions of the relevant collective bargaining agreement/labor contract apply to the filling of this position.

All applicants who want to be considered for this position MUST apply electronically through the illinois.jobs2web.com website. State of Illinois employees should click the link near the top left to apply through the SuccessFactors employee career portal.

Applications submitted via email or any paper manner (mail, fax, hand delivery) will not be considered.

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Position Overview:

The Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice is seeking to hire a Social Worker III for the Illinois Youth Center located in Warrenville, Illinois to administer professional social work services involving managing a caseload of youths with emotionally disturbed, developmentally disabled, and other conditions. Determines and develops sources of information and services to facilitate youth treatment. Interviews youth to obtain pertinent psychosocial data for problems identification, evaluation and development of treatment goals and objectives. The Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice encourages all qualified applicants to apply!

Essential Functions:

• Under direction, provides individual group counseling to assigned youth(s).
• Conducts in-depth assessments and evaluations of youths' mental health needs.
• Manages records, reports, and correspondence functions for assigned youth(s) in concert with assigned staff, outside agencies, and courts in compliance with facility policies and procedures.
• Assists in program evaluation and planning as well as data analysis and conducting in-service training for staff development on a multi-disciplinary basis for all staff.
• Services as lead worker of mental health contractual staff.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably withing the scope of those enumerated above.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Requires a master's degree in social work from a recognized college or university supplemented by two years of professional social work experience in the evaluation and treatment/habilitation of mentally ill, developmentally disabled, or other disabled persons.
• Requires licensure as a Social Worker by the Department of Professional Regulation.

Preferred Qualifications: (In Order of Significance)

• Prefers extensive knowledge of the theories and assumptions underlying the social work field.
• Prefers elementary knowledge of the employing agency's rules and regulations covering the social work field.
• Prefers ability to prepare complex written and oral reports.

Conditions of Employment:

• Requires ability to pass a drug screen. The use of unauthorized drugs by an employee, regardless of the position held, is prohibited.
• Requires ability to pass the IDOC/IDJJ background check.

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

About the Agency:

The mission of the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice (IDJJ) is to build youth skills and strengthen families by promoting community safety and positive youth outcomes. Over 900 staff members from across various departments—security, programming, education, mental health, and more—collaborate with the understanding that youth are physically, emotionally, and cognitively different from adults. The department provides extensive services to young people through a developmental, treatment-focused model of care that builds youth resiliency, engages families, and promotes community safety at the five youth facilities it operates across the state. IDJJ serves and houses approximately 150 youth and is responsible for approximately 500 youth on Aftercare in various Illinois’ communities.

Work Hours: Sun/Mon/Wed/Thur 8am-4pm; Tues 11am-7pm; Fri/Sat off

Headquarter Location: 30 W 200 Ferry Rd, Warrenville, Illinois, 60563

Work County: DuPage

Agency Contact: IDJJ Human Resources

Email: [email protected]

Posting Group: Leadership & Management; Social Services

This position DOES NOT contain “Specialized Skills” (as that term is used in CBAs).

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

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