What are the responsibilities and job description for the Income Maintenance Caseworker position at Swain County Social Services?
Swain County Department of Social Services has an opening for an Income Maintenance Caseworker. Work involves determining and/or redetermining applicants’ eligibility for various programs.
Knowledges, Skills, and Abilities - Good mathematical reasoning and computational skills. Ability to communicate with clients, applicants, and the public to obtain data, and to explain and interpret rules, policies, and procedures. Ability to understand the needs and problems of clients/applicants. Ability to learn the program area of assignment and all agency programs and services which could affect the client/applicant.
Minimum Training and Experience Requirements - Graduation from an accredited associate degree program in Human Services Technology, Social Services Associate, Paralegal Technology, Business Administration, Secretarial Science, or a closely related curriculum; or graduation from high school and two years of paraprofessional, clerical, or other public contact experience which included negotiating, interviewing, explaining information, gathering and compiling of data, analysis of data and/or performance of mathematical or legal tasks with at least one year of such experience being in an income maintenance program; or graduation from high school and three years of paraprofessional, clerical or other public contact experience which included negotiating, interviewing, explaining information, the 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.
Course work at a Community College, Business or Technical School or course work at a four-year college or university may be substituted for general experience on a year for year basis for this class, but not for experience in an Income Maintenance Program.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $33,467.00 - $36,032.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Work Location: In person
Salary : $33,467 - $36,032