Administrative Skills, Aftercare, Behavioral Health, CPR Certification, Case Management, Community Providers, Customer Support/Service, Developmental Disabilities, Employee Benefits, Hospital Administration, Legal, Lift/Move 20 Pounds, Natural Resources, Patient Care, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Retirement Plan, Social Work, Strategic Analysis, Strategic Planning, Treatment Plan, Willing to Travel
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**Agency:**Illinois Department of Human Services
**Job Requisition ID:**55104
**Location:** Hines, Illinois, 60141
**Opening Date**: 6/17/2026
**Closing Date**: 7/1/2026
**Salary:**Anticipated Salary: (Effective 7/1/26) \$6,820 - \$9,875 per
month (\$81,840 - \$118,500 per year)
**County:**Cook
**Number of Vacancies**: 2
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**Position Overview**
The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery is seeking to hire a
Social Worker III for the Madden Mental Health Center located in Hines,
Illinois, using established work principles, performs highly responsible
and complex social work services on an assigned unit. Makes social
assessment of persons admitted and from evaluation provides intensive
services to persons with severe emotional and psycho-social disorders.
Serves as designated lead worker. Assists the lead psychiatrist in
verifying all persons admitted to a pavilion have an individualized
treatment plan in place.
**Essential Functions**
- Using established work principles performs highly responsible and
complex social work services on an assigned unit.
- Makes social assessment of persons admitted and from evaluation
provides intensive services to persons with severe emotional and
psycho-social disorders.
- Evaluates community provider services for future placement in light
of needs of individual patients.
- Develops treatment strategies and evaluates group, individual and
family counseling sessions.
- Serves as designated lead worker.
- Completes documentation in the clinical record in accordance with
hospital policy and Joint Commission standards.
- Makes referrals to appropriate Linkage Case Management and Assertive
Community teams and community agencies, Intermediate Care Facilities
and other professionals considering patients levels of care and
aftercare needs.
- Provides consultation to community agencies, other professionals,
families and other DBHR (Division of Behavioral Health and
Recovery)/DDD (Division of Developmental Disabilities) facilities
regarding appropriate services for clients.
- Performs other duties as assigned or required which are reasonably
within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
**Conditions of Employment**
- Requires the ability to physically restrain patients as necessary to
prevent injury to patient and others.
- Requires the ability to obtain and maintain Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation (CPR) certificate.
- Requires the ability to stoop, bend, lift or exert up to 20 pounds
of force in performance of job duties.
- Requires the ability to physically access various worksites
throughout the hospital for administrative and clinical duties.
- Requires the ability to travel in performance of job duties.
- Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
- Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from
recreational use under Illinois Law.
\*The conditions of employment listed here are incorporated and related
to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.
**Work Hours:**VaI
Illinois Department of Human Services