STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
HUMAN RESOURCES
CLASSIFICATION: ADULT PROTECTIVE SOCIAL WORKER III
Class Code: 8356-23
Date Established: 10-09-03
Occupational Code: 7-7-7
Date of Last Revision: 03-29-06
BASIC PURPOSE: Performs
complex interventions relating primarily to perpetrator based abuse and
exploitation of incapacitated adults.
CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Receives and records
reports of adult abuse including assessing for investigation of abuse,
exploitation or criminal neglect.
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Performs collateral
and clinical interviews and gathers data relating to allegations.
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Determines if there
is imminent danger to the alleged victim.
·
Analyzes and
interprets complex data, policies and laws, to resolve investigated situations.
·
Collaborates with law
enforcement, legal authorities, courts, administrative hearings and other
entities before, during and post investigation.
·
Performs clinical and
forensic assessments and follow up social work for problem resolution.
·
Provides preventative
education to families, facilities providers and collaborative organizations.
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DISTINGUISHING FACTORS:
Skill: Requires skill in recommending routine
changes in standardized operating procedures OR in retrieving, compiling, and
reporting data according to established procedures OR in operating complex
machines.
Knowledge: Requires logical or scientific
expertise to resolve problems of a specialized or professional nature in a wide
range of applications.
Impact: Requires responsibility for achieving
direct service objectives by assessing agency service needs and making
preliminary recommendations for the development of alternative short-term
program policies or procedures.
Errors at this level result in incomplete assessments or misleading
recommendations causing a disruption of agency programs or policies.
Supervision: Requires direct supervision of other
employees doing related or similar work, including scheduling work,
recommending leave, reviewing work for accuracy, performance appraisal, or
interviewing applicants for position vacancies.
Working Conditions: Requires performing regular job
functions in an environment which includes exposure to continuous physical
elements or a number of disagreeable working conditions with frequent exposure
to minor injuries or health hazards.
Physical Demands: Requires light work, including
continuous walking or operating simple equipment for extended periods of time
as well as occasional strenuous activities such as reaching or bending.
Communication: Requires reviewing summaries and
reports and making decisions to solve problems or to achieve work objectives as
well as articulating and expressing those solutions and goals. This level also requires formal
presentations of solutions and goals to employees and the general public to
increase the responsiveness of the agency toward the demands of its client
system.
Complexity: Requires coordinating a combination of
diverse job functions in order to integrate professional and technical agency
goals. This level also requires
considerable judgment to implement a sequence of operations or actions.
Independent Action: Requires independent judgment in
planning and evaluating work procedures and in supervising the development of
professional, technical and managerial standards under administrative direction
and according to broad departmental guidelines.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Education: Master’s degree from an accredited
college in social work, sociology, psychology, human services, related
behavioral sciences, or criminal justice.
Experience: Two years' experience in performing
legally mandated protective service investigations or three years experience in
social services, working with the elderly and/or adults with disabilities,
living independently. Each
additional year of approved work experience may be substituted for one year of
required formal education at the graduate level only.
License/Certification: Valid New Hampshire driver's license
and/or have access to transportation for statewide travel.
SPECIAL
QUALIFICATIONS: Unless completed in previous two years, satisfactorily
completes within one year, orientation training (18 hrs), Introduction to Adult
Protective Service Worker (18 hrs), and APSW III training (42 hrs.);
additionally, those without a degree in social work must satisfactorily
complete core training (30 hrs.).
Successfully completes 18 hours annually of DEAS sponsored
and/or approved continuing education/training.
SPECIAL
REQUIREMENT: For appointment consideration, Adult
Protective Social Worker III applicants must successfully participate in a
structured interview measuring possession of knowledge, skills and abilities
identified as necessary for satisfactory job performance by this class
specification. The structured
interview is developed and administered according to the Division of Personnel
guidelines, by representatives of the state agency in which the vacancy exists.
RECOMMENDED WORK TRAITS: Knowledge of the principles and methods
of social work and availability and use of community resources. Knowledge of psychological and
environmental problems arising in connection with casework. Ability to exercise good judgment in
evaluating situations and in making decisions. Ability to write case histories and related reports. Ability to interpret departmental
policy, procedures and objectives.
Ability to communicate effectively. Ability to establish and maintain effective working
relationships with representatives of other social agencies, institution
officials, the public and clients.
Must be willing to maintain appearance appropriate to assigned duties
and responsibilities as determined by the agency appointing authority.
DISCLAIMER STATEMENT: This class specification is descriptive
of general duties and is not intended to list every specific function of this
class title.
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