<p>The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services is soliciting applicants for statewide vacancies in the following classifications. This is a recruitment effort to provide a broader applicant pool for vacancies that may occur in the future. If you are interested, please apply online at the Personnel Cabinet’s website at http://personnel.ky.gov/ . To be considered for these positions, you must submit an application to the Personnel Cabinet and meet the minimum requirements. </p><p>Social Service Worker I</p><p>This position provides entry level professional social work services to families and children through the assessment of client needs and the provision of social services. Applicants must be a graduate of a college or university with a bachelor’s degree in social work, sociology, psychology, marriage and family therapy, or a related field. </p><p>Applicants and employees in this classification may be required to submit to a drug screening test and background check. </p><p>If appointed to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, an employee in this classification must furnish to the appointing authority within one month of appointment documentation that he/she possesses a valid driver’s license and must maintain a valid driver’s license for the length of employment in this classification.</p><p>Starting salary: $2,670.20 per month.</p><p>Family Support Specialist I</p><p>This position performs beginning level determination of eligibility for public assistance programs such as Food Stamps and Medicaid. Applicants must have completed 54 semester hours from a college or university OR have completed 28 semester hours from a college or university and have one year of experience in administrative work, clerical office work and/or work dealing directly with the public. Previous experience in reviewing, monitoring, determining eligibility for and/or administering Food Stamps, the Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program, Medical Assistance, Child Support or other public assistance programs will substitute for the college requirements on a year-for-year basis.</p><p>Applicants and employees in this classification may be required to submit to a drug screening test and background check. </p><p>Starting salary: $2,006.08 per month</p><p>Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D</p>