UNIT CLERK

About the role

The Adult Protective Service (APS) is mandated by the State of New York to provide social, legal, and protective services to individuals 18 years of age and older who are unable to meet their essential needs due to mental or physical impairments. APS ensures that medical and psychiatric services, eviction prevention, financial management, home care, legal services, and, as a last resort, institutional placements are provided.

Responsibilities

• Maintain caseworker rotation in APSNet system and coded forms.
• Clear cases on APSNet databases to determine status of applications, current unit assigned to, noting supervisor and caseworker are correctly reflected.
• Troubleshoot with staff case actions and data input.
• Gather and sort received case information from inter-office, U.S. Mail, and faxed information by unit workers.
• Maintain schedules for the staff in the Units as directed by Field Supervisor for Lunch Hours, field days, E Days, etc.
• Prepare unit requisition forms for necessary section supplies.
• Process incoming mail, by receiving/ opening/sorting/routing/distributing received materials, to ensure prompt receipt to addressees.
• Respond to telephone inquiries, by referring/transferring caller to appropriate unit/employee, taking messages as necessary, providing information where appropriate, to service persons calling the agency, reduce necessity for in-person visit by caller.

Requirements

• A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a State's department of education or a recognized accrediting organization and one year of satisfactory clerical experience.
• Keyboard familiarity with the ability to type at a minimum of 100 key strokes (20 words) per minute.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a State's department of education or a recognized accrediting organization and one year of satisfactory clerical experience.
• Skills Requirement: Keyboard familiarity with the ability to type at a minimum of 100 key strokes (20 words) per minute.

Benefits

Salary Range: $40,957.0000- $47,100.0000
Work Location: 250 Livingston Street 3rd Brooklyn, NY 11201
Hours/Schedule: 9:00am-17:00pm (Flexible)

Pay

$40,957.0000- $47,100.0000

Schedule

9:00am-17:00pm (Flexible)