Crossing Guard

Summary of Duties

• Level III: Independently provides all supportive services for a unit or team; participates in team activities; checks with clients, encourages them to use available resources, follows up on cases periodically, relays information, problems, and observations to professional staff; performs other related duties as assigned.
• Level IV: Performs extensive field work and outreach functions; serves as liaison between professional staff and clients, or potential clients; performs preliminary screening for continued eligibility; performs other related duties as assigned.
• Level V: Determines continued eligibility; makes referrals to standard community resources and/or professional staff; performs other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualification Requirements

• Education Requirement: Graduation from high school. Experience of the type described below or work experience requiring the ability to read, comprehend, and apply written directions, or a high degree of verbal skill may be substituted for lack of high school education.
• Specialized Experience: Two (2) years for Level III, three (3) years for Level IV, and four (4) years for Level V, of progressively responsible experience in providing supportive services to social workers, vocational rehabilitation specialists, public housing managers, or other professional workers in such programs as public welfare, family court, vocational rehabilitation, and public housing; e.g., performing clerical tasks in processing various documents, transporting clients and materials to and from various destinations, explaining to clients or tenants the services available, assisting in overseeing group activities such as bowling and swimming.
• Specialized Experience Substitutions: Education in an accredited university in a baccalaureate program may be substituted for experience on the basis of 15 semester hours for six (6) months of experience, up to a maximum of three (3) years. Satisfactory completion of a social service aid and assistant curriculum at an accredited community college, technical school, or junior college which resulted in a Certificate of Achievement or Associate of Science or related degree may be substituted for experience on a year-for-year basis up to a maximum of two (2) years.