Seasonal Assistant - Council Aging Featured Duxbury, MA

Position Title: Seasonal Assistant - Council On Aging

Department/

Location:

Council on Aging;
Duxbury Senior Center

Reports To: COA Director

Contract/Grade: Personnel Plan, Schedule B

FSLA: Exempt, part-time, non-benefit eligible

Rate: Pay Range $15.00 - $50.00;
Actual pay is dependent upon qualifications.

Schedule: Part Time, 12 hours per week

Statement of Duties: The Mental Health Navigator is responsible for connecting older adults to Care Solace and other mental health resources, scheduling and facilitating educational programming and advocating for and supporting Duxbury residents and their families. Employee is required to perform all similar or related duties.

Supervision

Required:

Under general supervision of the Assistant Director/Program Manager, the employee is familiar with the work routine and uses initiative in carrying out recurring assignments independently with specific instruction. The supervisor provides additional, specific instruction for new, difficult or unusual assignments, including suggested work methods. The employee is expected to recognize instances which are out of the ordinary and which do not fall within existing instructions;

the employee is then expected to seek advice and further instructions. Reviews and checks of the employee’s work are applied to an extent sufficient to keep the supervisor aware of progress, and to ensure that completed work and methods used are technically accurate and that instructions are being followed. In many cases, the work is self‑checking, for example, requiring accounts to balance before proceeding.

Supervisory Responsibility: Employee, as a regular and continuing part of the job, is accountable for the quality and quantity of work done by subordinates and assures the accomplishment of the assigned work in the prescribed manner. Supervisory functions typically consist of most of the following: plans, schedules and coordinates work operations to meet schedules, deadlines and priorities; revises work schedules to meet changes in workload or availability of manpower;

recommends and justifies to higher levels of management changes in the organization of work, work methods or assignment of functions to positions that may affect staffing patterns, costs, work standards, etc.; assigns work based on varying capabilities of employees; assures that completed work meets the required standard of quality, timeliness and cost, taking corrective actions as necessary, including rejecting the work;

recommends promotions, reassignments, pay increases or other personnel actions; oversees attendance and leave, typically including approval of ordinary sick and vacation schedules; advises employees of performance requirements and prepares formal evaluations of performance; gives advice and instruction on both administrative and work matters; informs subordinates of organizational policies, goals and procedures; resolves employee complaints and effects disciplinary actions, such as oral warnings and reprimands;

has substantial responsibility for technical soundness of subordinates’ work. The employee is responsible for the supervision of volunteers.

Confidentiality: Has access to some confidential information obtained during performance of regular position responsibilities in accordance with the State Public Records Law.

Accountability: Consequences of errors, missed deadlines or poor judgment may include adverse public relations, legal repercussions, personal injury; jeopardize programs and danger to public health/safety.

Judgment: The work requires examining, analyzing and evaluating facts and circumstances surrounding individual problems, situations, or transactions, and determining actions to be taken within the limits of standard or accepted practices. Guidelines include a large body of policies, practices, and precedents which may be complex or conflicting, gment is used in analyzing specific situations to determine appropriate actions. Employee is expected to weigh efficiency and relative priorities in conjunction with procedural concerns in decision making.

Requires understanding, interpreting and applying complex federal, state and local regulations.

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