Medical Social Worker II

THIS IS A NEW ASSEMBLED EXAMINATION.  The eligible list resulting from this examination will cancel any existing list and may last approximately one year, but can be extended.

Applications must be in the possession of the Human Resource Services Department by 5:00 p.m. on the Last Day for Filing.  Postmarks are not accepted.  Applications will only be accepted on-line.

Supplemental Questionnaire:  A properly completed Supplemental Questionnaire must be submitted with each application.  Applications and Supplemental Questionnaires must be in the possession of the Human Resource Services Department by 5:00 p.m. on the Last Day for Filing. Postmarks are not accepted.  Failure to submit the Supplemental Questionnaire will result in disqualification.

 

QUALIFIED BILINGUAL PERSONS WHO SPEAK ENGLISH AND ARE ALSO FLUENT IN SPANISH, CHINESE, VIETNAMESE, CAMBODIAN, LAOTIAN, KOREAN, MIEN, TAGALOG, AMHARIC, FARSI, DARI, TIGRIGNA, RUSSIAN, ROMANIAN OR SIGN LANGUAGE ARE ESPECIALLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.  THERE IS AN ADDITIONAL BI WEEKLY COMPENSATION FOR PERSONS IN POSITIONS DESIGNATED BILINGUAL.  Qualified candidates may be tested to demonstrate language proficiency.

HEALTH CARE SERVICES AGENCY
 

Alameda County's Health Services Program is administered by the Health Care Services Agency and includes the following program areas: Behavioral Health Care, Public Health, Environmental Health, and Agency Administration/Indigent Health. The ultimate mission of the Health Care Services Agency is to provide fully integrated health care services through a comprehensive network of public and private partnerships that ensure optimal health and well-being and respect the diversity of all residents. Health Care Services Agency currently has multiple career opportunities for experienced licensed professionals to become part of a service delivery team dedicated to the optimal health and well being of Alameda County residents.

 

PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT 
 

Alameda County Public Health Department has worked for over 80 years to improve the health and safety of its residents and the neighborhoods they live in. Traditional public health concerns such as disease outbreaks, environmental hazards and access to health care have been joined by contemporary concerns: bioterrorism, crime, violence, and substance abuse. Each of these poses a threat to public health and wellness. And each calls for short and long-term solutions that lie well outside traditional public health boundaries

 

THE POSITION

 

Under general supervision  to provide medical social casework, discharge planning and goals for clients in public health programs; participates in client care planning in cooperation with other members of multi-disciplinary health care teams; and perform other related duties as needed.   This is the second level in the medical social work series. Assignments in the Health Care Services Agency require an incumbent to provide a full range of casework, counseling, crisis intervention, discharge and treatment planning and goals, consultative services, and independent judgment in client-care related matters.   Medical Social Worker II's screen and assess referrals for medical social services intervention and develop treatment plans accordingly with other members of the health care team.   Incumbents in the I/II levels report to a Health Care Program Administrator I, Senior Program Specialist, or other management personnel.

VACANCIES

The current vacancies are in the Public Health Department's Division of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention and the Family Health Services Division. 

TB Unit
The Tuberculosis (TB) Medical Social Worker (MSW) II provides medical social casework for persons with suspected and confirmed TB disease, or exposed to tuberculosis disease.  The TB MSW assesses clients’ psychological, behavioral, social, economic and physical needs, analyzes the assessment findings and develops treatment plans, focusing on addressing barriers to timely completion of TB treatment including assisting clients with accessing health care and obtaining needed social services or mental health services.  The TB MSW participates in hospital discharge planning, assists clients adjust to temporary restrictions placed upon them by their disease including home isolation, and provides expert consultation for and collaborates with a multi-disciplinary TB Case Management team.  An essential activity will be developing housing resources for infectious TB clients who are homeless.

Maternal, Paternal,  Child Adolescent Health Unit
The Medical Social Worker II provides a full range of bio-psychosocial assessment, case management, clinical counseling, crisis intervention, information and referral services to perinatal and interconception clients and their families enrolled in the Maternal Health and Prematurity Prevention program. This position coordinates with various entities within the Alameda County Public Health Department as well as the community to maximize health care linkage services to eligible women and their families; provides resource development for eligible populations through inter-agency coordination and provider training; assists in policy and protocol development; quality assurance and implementation of program standards; and performs other related duties as required.

IDEAL CANDIDATE

The ideal candidate in addition to having strong technical/professional knowledge will have demonstrated a successful track record in the following competencies:

• Experience providing case management services, counseling, linkages, psycho-education and referrals.
• Ability to maintain effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment.
• Someone who develops and uses collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.
• Ability to clearly convey information to individuals or groups in a manner that is culturally competent.  
• Someone who seeks to understand and promote client and client family needs.

Medical Social Worker II

Either I

The equivalent of one year of full-time experience in the class of Medical Social Worker I in the Alameda County classified service. (Non-classified includes District Attorney’s Office, and the Hospital Authority.)

Or II
Education:

Possession of a Master's degree in Social Work or Social Behavioral Science awarded by an accredited college or university,

And
Experience:

The equivalent of two years’ full-time, post-MSW experience as a medical social worker in a hospital or public health setting. Some positions may require pediatric or adult chronic disease experience.

License:

Certain positions may require possession of California Motor Vehicle Operator's license.

NOTE: The Civil Service Commission may modify the above Minimum Qualifications in the announcement of an examination.

NOTE: The level and scope of the following knowledge and abilities are related to duties listed under the "Examples of Duties" section of this specification.

The most suitably qualified candidates will possess the following competencies:

Knowledge of:

• Theory, principles, and techniques of medical social work.
• Trends, standards and terminology of medical social work.
• Social, emotional, behavioral, and economic implications of disease.
• Normal and abnormal behavior, emotional and social adjustment, and the principles and
dynamics of motivation.
• Modern health care organizations and functions.
• General laws relating to health and welfare.

Ability to:

• Apply casework principles and concepts.
• Secure accurate social and personal data and record such data systematically.
• Utilize community resources in a medical care program.
• Establish and maintain effective and professional casework relationships.
• Work effectively with others.
• Communicate effectively, orally and in writing.

THE EXAMINATION WILL CONSIST OF the following steps: 1) A review of candidates' applications to verify possession of minimum requirements. Those candidates who possess the minimum requirements for the class will move on to the next step in the examination process. 2) A review of candidates’ Supplemental Questionnaires to select the best qualified applicants to continue in the process.  3) An oral interview which will be weighted as 100% of the candidate's final examination score. The oral interview may contain situational exercises.  CANDIDATES MUST ATTAIN A QUALIFYING RATING ON EACH PORTION OF THIS EXAMINATION.  

Alameda County utilizes a Civil Service Selection System founded on merit.  Such a system is competitive and based on broad recruitment efforts and equal opportunity for qualified applicants to test in an examination process designed to determine the qualifications, fitness and ability of competitors to perform duties of the vacant position.  Many of our recruitments are targeted and specific to the needs of a current vacant position, in which case, the eligible list may be exclusively used for that current vacant position.  Other recruitments many be more broadly used for both current and future vacancies, or for other alternate jobs with comparable scopes of work.

To learn more about our recruitment and selection process, please visit the “What You Need to Know” section of our website, www.acgov.org/hrs.

We reserve the right to make changes to the announced examination components.

Applicants will be informed via email with reasonable notice in advance of any examination process which will require their attendance.  The following dates are tentative and subject to change based on the needs of the Agency.

 

 

TENTATIVE SELECTION PLAN 

Deadline for Filing:	5:00 p.m., Monday, December 8, 2014
Review of Minimum Qualifications:	Monday, December 15, 2014
Review of Supplemental Questionnaires for Best Qualified:	Monday, December 22, 2014
Panel Interviews:	Monday, January 12, 2015

Alameda County and the Human Resource Services Department will make reasonable efforts in the examination and/or selection process to accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities and/or medical conditions in accordance/compliance with the State Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), Federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Alameda County’s Reasonable Accommodation Policy and applicable statutes.  To request an accommodation due to a disability/medical condition during this or other phases of the examination/selection process, please contact the assigned Human Resources Representative listed on the job announcement before the last date of filing.   Alameda County requires applicants to provide supporting documentation to substantiate a request for reasonable accommodation. In order to qualify for a reasonable accommodation, applicants must have a disability/medical condition pursuant to the ADA, FEHA and applicable statutes.

For more information regarding our Reasonable Accommodation procedures, please visit our website, www.acgov.org/hrs

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alameda County offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that affords wide-ranging health care options to meet the different needs of a diverse workforce and their families. We also sponsor many different employee discount, fitness and health screening programs focused on overall well being.  These benefits include but are not limited to*:

For your Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical – HMO & PPO Insurance
• Dental – PPO & DHMO Insurance  
• Vision
• Basic Life Insurance 
• Supplemental Life Insurance (with optional dependent coverage) 
• County Allowance
• Health Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Accident, Critical Illness & Hospital Indemnity
• Long Term Care Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program

For your Financial Future

• Short-term Disability Insurance
• Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Retirement Plan – (Defined Benefit Pension Plan)
• Deferred Compensation Plan

For your Work/Life Balance

• 11 paid holidays
• Vacation and sick leave accrual
• Vacation purchase program
• Management Paid Leave**
• Group Auto/Home
• Commuter Benefits Program
• Guaranteed Ride Home
• Employee Wellness Program (e.g. At Work Fitness, Incentive Based Programs, Gym Membership Discounts)
• Employee Discount Program (e.g. theme parks, cell phone, etc.)
• Child Care Resources
• 1^st United Services Credit Union 

*Eligibility is determined by Alameda County and offerings may vary by collective bargaining agreement.  This provides a brief summary of the benefits offered and can be subject to change.

** Non-exempt management employees are entitled to up to three days of management paid leave. Exempt management employees are entitled to up to seven days of management paid leave.

All notices related to County recruitments for which you have applied will be sent/delivered via email.  Please add @acgov.org and alamedacountyHR@acgov.org as accepted addresses to any email blocking or spam filtering program you may use. If you do not do this, your email blocking or spam filtering program may block receipt of the notices regarding your application for recruitments. You are also strongly advised to regularly log into your County of Alameda online application account to check for notices that may have been sent to you. All email notices that will be sent to you will also be kept in your personal online application account. You will be able to view all of your notices in your online application account by clicking on the "My applications" button on the Current Job Openings page.

Please take the steps recommended above to insure you do not miss any notices about a recruitment for which you have applied. The County of Alameda is not responsible for notices that are not read, received or accessed by any applicant for a County recruitment.

NOTE: All notices are generated through an automated email notification system. Replies to the email box alamedacountyHR@acgov.org are routed to an unmonitored mailbox. All notices are generated through an automated email notification system. Replies to the email box are routed to an unmonitored mailbox. If you have questions please go to our website at www.acgov.org/hrs. You may also contact the Human Resources Analyst listed on the job announcement for the recruitment for which you have applied.

Annette Sandoval,  Human Resources Analyst II
Human Resource Services, County of Alameda
510-272-6434

Alameda County is an Equal Opportunity Employer