Social Services Assistant - Part Time

Job description

To assist with connecting social service clients with resources.

Necessary Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Possesses strong clinical judgment while working with a wide variety of residents presenting with diverse needs.
Collaborative and responsive professionalism
Understanding of and able to maintain strict client confidentiality
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Highly organized and detail oriented with excellent follow through
Superior interpersonal skills with outgoing style and willingness to engage diverse constituents

Physical Demands and Working Environment:

COMPUTER SKILLS: computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook. Experience using databases a plus. Strong typing skills with attention to detail and the ability to conduct computer searches for resources, answers to questions, and fact-based information.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common technical journals, and legal documents. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from residents. Ability to write/document information that conforms to prescribed style and format. Ability to present information effectively, which may be controversial in nature. Additional language abilities in addition to English a plus.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

REASONING ABILITY: Ability to define problems and use judgement to work toward results, modify methods/techniques and make recommendations dealing with several abstract and concrete variables within clearly defined laws, precedents and policies.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here represent those requirements that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The job may require one to carry materials, heavy at times, to support clinics.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Fast paced
Multi-tasking
Extensive interpersonal interaction
Variable
Occasional evenings