Adult Guardianship Social Worker
Work Type
Adult Services
Position Number
2023-106
Salary
$51,329
Closing Date
May 14, 2023
Posted May 9, 2023
Agency Name
Carteret County Department of Social Services
Work County
Carteret
Job Contact
Teresa Baker
HR Generalist
Carteret County Government
252.728.8405
teresa.baker@carteretcountync.gov
Job Location
210 Craven Street
Beaufort
North Carolina
28516
Job Description
- Provides case management to arrange and coordinate an array of services including appropriate housing, medical, crisis, mental health, financial, social functioning, family consultation, and court interactions to assist the ward in obtaining daily needs and remain safely in the least restrictive environment.
- Acts as a surrogate decision maker on behalf of wards deemed incompetent and as an agent for the Human Services Director.
- Makes referrals to other community services or agency services.
- Prepares reports and other types of correspondence; maintains case logs; prepares and maintains files and records.
- Completes quarterly, annual, and six month reviews and provides status reports to the court which include evaluating the ward’s potential for restoration, modification, or transfer of guardianship.
- Enters a variety of data into computer system.
- Testifies in court.
- Maintains a close working relationship and acts as a liaison with mental health, facility administrators/managers, clerks of court, law enforcement, medical providers, and other agencies that serve adults.
- Serves as back-up to Adult Protective Services in an on-call basis as needed
- Thorough knowledge of County and department policies and procedures.
- Thorough knowledge of applicable local, Federal, and State laws, rules, and regulations.
- Thorough knowledge of the techniques and means of interviewing, counseling, and investigating.
- Thorough knowledge of community resources for social services.
- Thorough knowledge in operating standard office equipment and associated software.
- Thorough knowledge in preparing reports and other types of correspondence.
- Ability to conduct interviews and investigations.
- Ability to perform, organize, and prioritize work independently.
- Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
- Ability to analyze facts and to exercise sound judgment in arriving at conclusions.
- Ability to make arithmetic computations using whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
- Ability to articulate program policies accurately and professionally even in adverse situations.
- Ability to work professionally with difficult people, unpleasant subject matters, and with high conflict situations.
- Ability to establish and maintain working relationships with clients, service providers, court, law enforcement, attorneys, government officials, vendors, physicians, civic organizations, charitable organizations, associates, and the general public.
- Work requires the occasional exertion of up to 50 pounds of force to move objects.
- Work frequently requires sitting, standing, walking, using hands to finger, handle, or feel, speaking or hearing and repetitive motions, occasionally requires climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling, reaching with hands and arms, tasting or smelling, pushing or pulling, and lifting.
- Work has standard vision requirements.
- Vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound.
- Work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, operating machines, operating motor vehicles or equipment, and observing general surroundings and activities.
- Work occasionally requires working near moving mechanical parts, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals, exposure to extreme heat (non-weather), and exposure to extreme cold (non-weather).
- Work occasionally requires exposure to blood borne pathogens and may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment.
- Work regularly requires interacting with clients who have mental health issues.
- Work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic).