Social Worker I - Work First Employment Services
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. We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc. Already removed. We need to ensure we don't create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. Let's extract content precisely. About the role: Could combine: - “Follow Your Calling, Find Your Career” tagline? Might be considered marketing but it's part of posting. Could include as prose. - At Mecklenburg County, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are with support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. We’re counting on YOUR unique voice and perspective to help Mecklenburg County become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all. - The Economic Mobility Division focuses on connecting residents to the resources, education, and employment opportunities needed to achieve long-term stability and self-sufficiency. Through coordinated programs and partnerships, the division works to remove barriers and create clear pathways to economic advancement. Our approach is centered on outcomes, ensuring that residents are supported in making measurable progress. The Economic Mobility Division consists of MeckSuccess, MeckWorks, More Than A Job NC, Work First Employment Services, Work First Kinship Services and Quality and Training. - Position Specific Summary: Work First Employment Services is a mandated program that requires all abled bodied adults receiving Work First Benefits to perform work or work-related activities. Work First Employment Services’ Social Workers provide assessments, assist customers with soft skills, vocational training, work experience, job readiness, and supportive services to guide them on their path to self-sufficiency. - Position Summary: Provides community-based crisis intervention services to individuals and families by gathering information from clients, family, landlords, utility companies, doctors, pharmacies, vendors and other available resources in determining the individuals' specific problems and assisting in developing an action plan and/or mutual responsibility agreement. This is the first level of professional social work. - Location: 301 Billingsley Drive Charlotte, NC 28211 We could put location in About the role as a paragraph. Responsibilities: Essential Functions list (the bullet points). Need to preserve each duty exactly as given. Let's list them: 1. Assess needs of individuals and families 2. Interview clients, obtains family, social, and medical information 3. Determine clients' eligibility for financial assistance and if referrals are appropriate 4. Provide counseling and services in both individual and group settings 5. Discuss goals, expected outcomes and means with which to meet goals and expected outcomes 6. Refer clients to community resources for services such as job placement, debt counseling, legal aid, housing, medical treatment, or financial assistance, and provide concrete information, such as where to go and how to apply. 7. Determine clients' eligibility for financial assistance. (duplicate? Actually #3 and #6 both mention eligibility; but we keep as given) 8. Assist clients in the completion of required paperwork for items that may determine program eligibility, referrals, or provide job assistance, such as job applications 9. Manage records and maintains history records and prepare reports of services provided 10. Refer clients to community resources for services and coordinates benefits and referrals to other agencies 11. Help clients work with government agencies to apply for and receive benefits 12. Manage records and documentation of services provided and participate in team case conferences 13. Act as a liaison with other staff with referrals and transitioning of clients 14. May be required to staff shelters in the event of a disaster 15. Research and refer clients to community resources, such as food stamps, Medicaid, SOAR, NC Works, Good Fellows, Good Friends, Community Support Services, RISE, YFS, APS, Just1 Call, Community Links, Veterans Services, Crisis Assistance Ministry, Charlotte Family Housing, Matthew Help Center, Pineville Neighbors, etc. 16. Advocate for and help clients get resources that would improve their well-being. 17. Follow up with clients to ensure that their situations have improved. 18. Evaluate services provided to ensure that they are effective. We need to keep them exactly as written, preserving punctuation. Now Requirements: Minimum Qualifications and Licenses. Minimum Qualifications text: "Experience Minimum Qualifications Bachelors of Social Work from an accredited school of social work and one year of social work experience; or a bachelor's degree in a related field with 15 hours of social work/counseling courses and two years of social work experience; or Master's degree from an accredited school of social work; or a master's degree in a related field with one year of social work experience." Education: "Please see experience." Combination of relevant education and relevant experience accepted?: No Licenses and Certifications: "Requires a valid North Carolina or South Carolina Driver's LicenseRequires County Driving Privileges" (note missing space; we should keep as is? Might be two separate sentences: "Requires a valid North Carolina or South Carolina Driver's License" and "Requires County Driving Privileges". We'll keep as two separate items. We could combine Requirements section to include both minimum qualifications and licenses. Qualifications: maybe we could separate Education as its own section? But we have education same as experience; maybe we can include under Requirements. Skills: Knowledge, Skills And Abilities list plus Skills list plus Abilities list plus Computer Skills. We need to preserve all. Let's extract Knowledge, Skills And Abilities: "Knowledge of General social work principles and available resourcesSocial services procedures, practices and methodsSocial services related federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations relating to provision of public assistance, and social welfareCase management methods and techniquesServices offered by the county and other local public and private community-based service agencies" It seems missing spaces; but we keep as given. Then Skills: "Skills Prioritizing workManaging and executing multiple tasksMaintaining various confidential recordsEvaluating records to ensure accreditation standards are metUsing computers and related software applicationsExercising judgment and discretion" Abilities: "Abilities Adaptability: Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusting effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or culturesBuilding Customer Loyalty: Effectively meeting customer needs; building productive customer relationships; taking responsibility for customer satisfaction and loyaltyBuilding Partnerships: Identifying opportunities and taking action to build strategic relationshipsBuilding Trust: Interacting with others in a way that instills confidence in one’s intentions and those of the organizationCare Management: Having the knowledge and skills to secure relevant patient care data and identify key issues and relationships in the management of patient care; understanding the relationships among assessments, interventions, and patient responses; skilled in documentation of assessments and adjusting physical and cognitive prescriptions as neededCommunication: Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the information providedCustomer Focus: Ensuring that the customer perspective is a driving force behind business decisions and activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers’ and own organization’s needsDecision Making: Identifying and understanding issues, problems, and opportunities; comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions; using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequencesInspiring Others: Using interpersonal styles and methods to inspire and guide individuals toward higher levels of performanceManaging Conflict: Dealing effectively with others in an antagonistic situation; using appropriate interpersonal styles and methods to reduce tension or conflict between two or more peopleWork Standards: Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed Computer Skills Proficient in applicable computer programs" Note there is "Computer Skills" within Abilities list? Actually after Work Standards there is "Computer Skills Proficient in applicable computer programs". Might be separate. We need to keep as given. We'll output sections:
About the role
“Follow Your Calling, Find Your Career”
At Mecklenburg County, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are with support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. We’re counting on YOUR unique voice and perspective to help Mecklenburg County become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.