Review Vacancy
AgencyPeople With Developmental Disabilities, Office for
TitleSocial Work Assistant 3 (SWA3) EOA#2024-192
Occupational CategoryHealth Care, Human/Social Services
Bargaining UnitPS&T - Professional, Scientific, and Technical (PEF)
Salary RangeFrom $59724 to $76029 Annually
Minimum Qualifications MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
List Appointment:
Candidates must be reachable for appointment on Current Civil Service Eligible List.
OR
Transfer
Candidates must have one year of permanent service as a Social Work Assistant 3 to be eligible for lateral transfer; OR have one year of permanent service in a title eligible to transfer via Section 70.1 of Civil Service Law. The transfer cannot be a second consecutive transfer resulting in an advancement of more than two salary grades.
OR
Provisional
If the Eligible Lists produce two or fewer qualified and interested candidates in a location, the agency may nominate, at its discretion, a candidate for provisional appointment to the position. To be qualified for provisional appointment, candidates must meet one of the following conditions:
Promotion
Candidates must have:
One year of permanent service as a Social Work Assistant 2, Social Work Assistant 2 (Chinese Language), Social Work Assistant 2 (Korean Language), or Social Work Assistant 2 (Spanish Language).
Candidates appointed provisionally on the basis of promotional qualifications must take the next holding of the promotion Social Work Assistant 3 examination, pass the examination, and be reachable for appointment from the resulting promotion eligible list.
OR
Open/Competitive
Candidates must have:
Either A. a master’s degree in social work;
Or B. a bachelor’s degree in social work and one year of post-bachelor’s social work experience;
Or C. a bachelor’s degree or higher in a human service area and two years of post-bachelor’s social work experience.
Candidates appointed provisionally on an Open/Competitive basis must take the next holding of the Open/Competitive Social Work Assistant 3 examination, pass the examination, and be reachable for appointment from the resulting Open/Competitive eligible list. Furthermore, due to the Civil Service rules and laws concerning the order of list certification, the Promotion examination for Social Work Assistant 3 must produce a list of eligibles of two or fewer candidates in that location, in order to be able to use the Open/Competitive list and consider candidates who meet the Open/Competitive qualifications. Candidates appointed provisionally on an Open/Competitive basis, who do not pass the next Social Work Assistant 3 examination; who are not reachable from the resulting eligible list; and/or where the Promotion examination produces a viable list of 3 or more candidates in that location, may not be retained in their position.
Duties Description Under the supervision of the DDPS 2 Housing Lead, the SWA 3 will be responsible for the following tasks:
• Monitor and track all certified state and voluntary-operated residential opportunities including relocations to the region.
• Maintain data entry to the CRO database and tracking referral and placement activity
• Active participant on the Regional Certified Residential Opportunities (CRO) Team and the Access to Residential Opportunities Committee (AROC).
• Maintain oversight for all residential referral and screening activities for the Regional Office Housing Team in accordance with the OPWDD Statewide Prioritization Criteria.
• Assist in tracking and facilitation of Director-to-Director Requests for individual relocations.
• Maintain and monitor residential due process notifications.
• Compile and generate requested reports for Central Office, DDRO and unit as required.
• Assist in all requested unit initiatives and special projects including participation in associated interdepartmental, regional and statewide workgroups/committees, as assigned.
Selection Criteria:
• Possess excellent and professional communication, public speaking, writing and organizational skills.
• Ability to initiate and maintain working relationships with individuals served, families, advocates, community representatives, voluntary providers, DDRO and DDSOO agency staff.
• Computer knowledge and ability to maintain databases and monitoring systems.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team as required
• Possess acceptable time and attendance work record.
• Ability to participate in requested functions and activities during evening hours and weekends as requested.
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Additional Comments Please note:
OPWDD is committed to creating and sustaining a culture of inclusion. We believe that we are most effective in managing and improving our service system with a diverse team of employees. With such a large workforce, we rely on the collective individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression, ideas and talent that our employees bring to their work. This speaks to our culture, and is a key part of our successes. As we continuously recruit people for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that applicants bring in terms of their education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
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