Income Maintenance Caseworker II – Family & Children’s Medicaid Recertification

The Johnston County Department of Social Services has an immediate opening for an Income Maintenance Caseworker II position in the Family and Children's Medicaid Re-certifications Unit, located at 714 North Street, Smithfield. In-house applicants need to apply online to be considered. Will accept work against if fully qualified applicants are not located. Please note: Final applicant subject to pre-employment drug screen, criminal records and DMV check. Background checks and drug screens will be conducted on all final candidates and on all employees who are promoted.

The primary purpose of this position is to re-determine eligibility for current Family and Children's Medicaid recipients. This position obtains all necessary third party verifications and communicates with the Medicaid recipient in order to obtain all information necessary to re-determine eligibility. This position is also responsible for completing the necessary re-certification in the NC FAST system to ensure timely benefits are issued to the recipient upon completion of the re-certification.

Considerable knowledge of the program/areas of assignment. General knowledge of all agency and community programs and services which could affect the client/applicant. Good knowledge of all agency and community programs and services which could affect the client/applicant. Good mathematical reasoning and computational skills. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret rules, regulations and procedures. Ability to communicate with clients/applicants, the public at large, and public officials to obtain data, and to explain and interpret rules, regulations and procedures. Ability to instruct and to evaluate the work of lower level employees. Ability to perform casework functions with structured time frames.

One year of experience as an Income Maintenance Caseworker I. Will accept IMC I work against: Graduation from high school and three years of paraprofessional, clerical, or other public contact experience which included negotiating, interviewing, explaining information, gathering and compiling of data, the analysis of data and/or the performance of mathematical or legal tasks; or an equivalent combination of training and experience.