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Children's Advocate
Frankfort, Illinois

Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Social WorkerFull-Time

Listed compensation

$45/hour

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Job Description

Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) – Full Time

  • Children’s Advocate Behavioral Health Services
  • Frankfort - Matteson, Illinois
  • 30–40 hours per week
  • Pay: 42–48 per hour, based on experience

Children’s Advocate Behavioral Health Services is seeking a compassionate, dependable, and experienced Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) to join our team. We work with children and families with behavioral, emotional, social, and mental health needs, and we are looking for a clinician who can build meaningful relationships while maintaining strong professional and clinical standards.

This is a full-time position of approximately 30–40 hours per week.

Compensation

42–48 per hour, based on experience, clinical background, and qualifications.

Responsibilities

The LCSW will be responsible for duties such as:

  • Providing individual and family therapy within the clinician’s scope of practice
  • Completing assessments and developing individualized treatment plans
  • Maintaining timely, accurate, and clinically appropriate documentation
  • Monitoring treatment progress and modifying interventions when appropriate
  • Working collaboratively with parents, caregivers, schools, referral sources, and other treatment providers when authorized and appropriate
  • Helping families understand treatment goals and actively participate in services
  • Supporting children and families experiencing behavioral and emotional challenges
  • Participating in treatment-team meetings and care coordination
  • Maintaining professional boundaries and client confidentiality
  • Following agency policies and applicable professional, ethical, and regulatory requirements

Required Qualifications

  • Current Illinois LCSW license in good standing
  • Master’s degree in social work from an appropriately accredited program
  • Clinical experience providing behavioral or mental health services
  • Strong assessment, treatment-planning, and documentation skills
  • Ability to communicate effectively with children, parents, caregivers, and other professionals
  • Ability to work independently while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team
  • Dependable attendance and professional communication

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working with children, adolescents, and families
  • Experience with family therapy, behavioral health, trauma-informed services, or community mental health
  • Experience coordinating services with schools, caregivers, or outside providers
  • Experience working with families with complex behavioral or psychosocial needs

What We Are Looking For

The right clinician will understand that helping a child often means working with the entire family system. We are looking for someone who can listen to parents and caregivers, understand the circumstances affecting the child, establish appropriate clinical boundaries, and turn those concerns into practical treatment goals.

Requirements

Requires a current Illinois LCSW license in good standing, a master's degree in social work from an appropriately accredited program, and clinical experience providing behavioral or mental health services. Candidates should have strong assessment, treatment-planning, and documentation skills, communicate effectively with children and families, and work independently while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Individual TherapyClinical AssessmentClinical DocumentationTreatment Progress MonitoringFamily EngagementMultidisciplinary Collaboration

Social Worker Career Context

Of the 33 active Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) listings this role was benchmarked against, 33% are remote, 52% have no call, 79% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Illinois is 100.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$94k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $94k in an average-cost state. 62.6% of Illinois clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Top Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) Jobs

17 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution15 jobs

6
<$90k
3
$90k-110k
1
$120k
5
$130k-150k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks12 jobs

401k / retirement match
100%
Sign-on bonus
42%
CME allowance
33%
Loan repayment
25%
PSLF eligible
8%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.1this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 2,010 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Frankfort

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$396k
Median resident rent
$2,442/mo
Residents’ average commute
35 min
State income tax
Up to 5%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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