Social Worker III - Adult Services and Guardianship

Social Worker Position

The primary purpose of this position is to provide protection to the adult residents of Bertie County ages 18 years and older. The major programs of this position are:
Protective Services for Adults, Guardianship, Case Management, Intake for Adults, Individual and Family Adjustment, Health Support Services and Protective Services after hours on-call for Adults. Many of these problems are related to appropriate home care, medical care, adult daily living activities, mental health and money management.

Protective Services for Adults is a multi-faceted service based on an awareness of the vulnerability of disabled adults due to abuse, neglect, and/or exploitation. Adults in need of this protection are persons 18 years old or older facing disabilities / challenges due to advanced age, mental, physical, or socioeconomic impairments, who are unable to take care of themselves and who have no one able or willing to assist them with the care they need.

Many of these problems are related to appropriate home care, medical care, adult daily living activities, mental health, and money management.

This position provides Guardianship services to individuals, who are alleged to be incompetent and/or to individuals who have been adjudicated as incompetent by the court and are in-need of a guardian. The employee is responsible for assessing an individual's need for guardianship; locating the appropriate person(s) to serve as guardian(s); and, when necessary, petitioning to court or assisting the individual's family to petition for the adjudication of incompetence and the appointment of a guardian.

Also, the employee provides ongoing case management when the DSS Director has been appointed as public guardian.

Employee will work in an office; however, a lot of out of office work is required in visiting homes, health and mental health facilities, and other service agencies.

Employee serves ON CALL DUTY after hours, nights, weekends and holidays as scheduled, for referrals for protective services for adults after regular working hours.

The employee is required to adhere to the laws of Confidentiality. Responsible for any other duties assigned by the supervisor or director.

*$2,000 SIGN-ON BONUS: $1,000 at completion of sixth month and twelfth month of employment*

The Department of Social Services is open 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday
-Friday. The County provides group health and hospitalization insurance programs for full-time and part[1]time employees. The County provides paid life insurance to its employees. Information on costs, coverage, and benefits are available from the Human Resources Officer. Each employee in a permanent position who is expected to work for the County more than 1,000 hours annually shall join the North Carolina Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System when eligible as a condition of employment.

Employees contribute, through payroll deduction, six percent of their gross salary to the system. The County contributes an actuarially determined percentage of the gross payroll each month to the system. The County allows employees to defer a portion of their income before taxes into a 401-K tax deferment plan. All employees of the County (full-time, part-time, and temporary) are covered by the North Carolina Workers' Compensation Act.

Each full and part-time employee of the County shall earn vacation at the following schedule, prorated by the regular number of hours in the workweek at described in Section 15 of this article: 0-2 Years of Service accrues 5 hours a month. Sick Leave is accrued at a rate of 7.5 hours a month.