Social Worker Jellinek Minnesota

Are you a Social Worker who values quality and enjoys working with complex issues? Get inspired and come work at Jellinek!

What will you be doing?
Our motto at Jellinek Minnesota is 'Stopping is something you do yourself, but not alone'. That is why Minnesota treatment takes place primarily in groups and clients are supported by all our team members, volunteers, fellow clients, and self-help groups. In this, creating connection is an important element in the clients' change process. The Minnesota treatment method has proven to be an effective treatment for addiction for many. This treatment utilizes the principles of 12-step self-help groups and the treatment method is based on spiritual values such as respect, honesty, openness, and connection. During treatment, the client learns to recognize and accept their addiction, receiving tools to break through isolation—often caused by shame and guilt. The client builds a network of people who understand and support them. Connection with others living a life in recovery provides the strength to recover. Clients who choose a Minnesota treatment choose abstinence from all substances and a life in recovery.
As a social worker, you will deal with preventing, reducing, or compensating for material and/or legal problems of clients who are clinically admitted. You advise and support them and/or their system regarding these problems. You give lectures and information to clients. You maintain contact with the client's social and community network to involve them in the treatment. You also have a lot of contact with agencies such as sheltered housing during post-treatment phases.

What does this mean concretely for your daily work?
Description of a day for the current Minnesota Social Worker:

I arrive in the morning and start the morning meeting with my colleagues, in which any special circumstances at the clinic are discussed. After that, I check my schedule to see what I have planned for the day.

This can include client contact, consulting with agencies, or providing various documents.

Per day, I see an x number of clients to discuss their request for help. This can involve practical requests, such as finances, daily activities/work, or finding meaning. But also applying for a safehouse trajectory, which falls under sheltered housing. As a social worker, you have close contact with various safehouses in the Netherlands and municipalities for this, and you oversee the progress of the applications.

A colleague may also ask you to join a group session for support.

Furthermore, I see my colleagues throughout the day in our own office. We work closely together and can therefore always ask each other questions or think along with one another. In addition to hard work, there is also a lot of laughter.

In addition to client contact in both the clinic and the day treatment, I also have a lot of contact with loved ones, agencies, and many other network partners.

For this role, it is important that you can handle the diversity of the target group, can pick up ad-hoc matters (flexibility), and can maintain an overview without getting stressed yourself. It is a fun, varied job in which no two days are the same.

• Referring a colleague? Receive a total referral bonus of €1,000 gross.

Want to know more about this vacancy?
For more information, you can call or send a message via WhatsApp to our recruiter Thijs van Woudenberg at 06-21550646. He is ready to tell you more and answer any questions.
You can respond as long as the vacancy is online. Once we have welcomed a new colleague, the vacancy will be closed.