Community Health Worker Emergency Appointment Homelessness
Community Health Worker Emergency Appointment Homelessness
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- TYPE OF RECRUITMENT:OPEN COMPETITIVE EMERGENCYEXAM NUMBER:b8103DEAFILING START DATE:Tuesday September 17 2024 at 8:00 a.m. (Pacific Time)This opportunity will remain open until the needs of the service are metDepartment of Mental Health is seeking qualified candidates to fill emergency Community Health Worker vacancies related to the homelessness crisis.Under the emergency order applicants who meet the requirements may be hired for an initial period of up to 90 days with an opportunity for permanent County employment.Before the end of your initial work period you will be assessed on your work performance. This assessment will be weighted 100.
Those who successfully pass the assessment will be considered for permanent appointment to Community Health Worker. Essential Job Functions
Facilitates relations between the agency and the community by communicating agency policies and programs to clients patients family members and community residents and conveying community cultural patterns and attitudes to agency professional staff.
Receives service referrals from social workers eligibility workers and Medical Case Workers to assist welfare recipients and/or undeserved in a variety of ways such as obtaining food stamps and housing medical mental health or substance use care.
Serves as an advocate for client/patient access to departmental and community resources.
Assists clients patients family members and caregivers in obtaining and completing application forms for benefits and services.
Provides emergency services to clients by making referrals to appropriate supportive agencies and arranging for emergency shelter.
Takes medical mental health family social and employment histories and assists clients and patients in completing necessary forms.
Informs pregnant teenagers and their families of available medical mental health and social services adoption agencies and prenatal care providers; educates women in the various methods of birth control.
Facilitates client development of independent living skills by conducting support groups in subjects such as housekeeping cooking shopping household budgeting use of public transportation and attendance to personal grooming and hygiene.
Provides services to chronically ill children and their families and refers them to various doctors or clinics.
Screens referrals and places clients in proper groups for counseling.
Coordinates certification of job applicants for Model Neighborhood areas.
Assists in research projects by monitoring the completion of questionnaires conducting interviews and collecting basic data.
Assists professional staff in the supervision of juveniles at a detention facility.
Performs clinical duties such as taking patients temperature and measuring height and weight.
Coordinates and provides periodic tutoring services and/or linkage services for a literacy program for delinquent foster and atrisk youth.Requirements
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Six months of fulltime experience working with the public or with community groups performing duties such as interviewing clients or patients concerning health or social service matters answering questions and providing information about health mental health and social services to clients or patients OR Six months of experience at the level of the Los Angeles County class of Mental Health Peer Advocate.
You MUST meet the above requirement(s) in order to be appointed to fill any vacancies related to this recruitment.
Mental Health Advocate in the County of Los Angeles is defined as providing a variety of peer support advocacy and other recovery services to clients transitioning to community living.
Work performed parttime in the specified capacities will be prorated on a monthformonth basis.
LICENSE:A validCalifornia Class C Driver License or the ability to utilize an alternative method of transportation to carry out jobrelated essential functions.
PHYSICAL CLASS:2 Light. This class includes administrative and clerical positions requiring light physical effort that may include occasional light lifting to a 10 pound limit and some bending stooping or squatting. Considerable ambulation may be involved.Additional Information
EXAMINATION CONTENT:Under the emergency order applicants who meet the requirements may be hired for an initial period of up to 90 days with an opportunity for permanent County employment.
Before the end of your initial work period you will be assessed on your work performance. This assessment will be weighted 100. Those who successfully pass the assessment will be considered for permanent appointment.
APPLICATION AND FILING INFORMATION
Applicants are required to complete and submit an online Los Angeles County Employment Application AND Supplemental Questionnaire in order to be considered for this examination. Paper applications resumes or any unsolicited documents will not be accepted in lieu of completing the online application and Supplemental Questionnaire. Application filing may be suspended at any time without advance notice.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR FILING ONLINE
Applications must be submitted online only and will be reviewed for interview consideration on an ongoing basis. If you have not been contacted within 60 days and the recruitment remains open or reopens for filing we encourage you to submit a new application. This will allow you to reaffirm your interest and update any relevant information.
Plan to submit your online application well in advance before the deadline as you may be required to verify your email address. This only needs to be done once per email address and if you already have a job seeker account on govermmentjobs/careers/lacountygov you can verify at any time by logging in and following the prompts. This is to enhance the security of your online application and to ensure you do not enter an incorrect email address.
Many important notifications will be sent electronically to the email address provided on the application. It is important that you provide a valid email address. Please as well as and to your email address and list of approved senders to prevent email notifications from being filtered as spam/junk/clutter mail.
Applicants have the ability to opt out of emails from LA County. If you unsubscribe you will not receive any email notification for any examination for which you apply with Los Angeles County. Regardless of whether you choose to unsubscribe you can always check for notifications by logging into governmentjobs and viewing your profile in box which saves a copy of all emailed notices.
SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER
Please include your Social Security Number for record control purposes. Federal law requires that all employed persons have a Social Security Number.
COMPUTER AND INTERNET ACCESS AT LIBRARIES
For candidates who may not have regular access to a computer or the internet applications can be completed on computers at public libraries throughout Los Angeles County.
NO SHARING USER ID AND PASSWORD
All applicants must file their applications online using their own user ID and password. Using a family member or friends user ID and password may erase a candidates original application record.
DEPARTMENT CONTACT
Department Contact Name: Hon Sang Cheang Exam Analyst
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Equal Employment Opportunity/NonDiscrimination Statement:
The County of Los Angeles is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to nondiscrimination in the County workforce regardless of age 40 and over); ancestry; color; ethnicity; religious creed; protected family or medical leave status; disability; marital status; medical condition; genetic information; military and veteran status; national origin; race ; sex; gender; sexual orientation; or any other characteristic protected by State or federal law. For more information please visit: Accommodations for Applicants:
The County of Los Angeles complies with all federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants and employees with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application process please contact the testing accommodation coordinator listed on the job posting. Hearing impaired applicants with telephone teletype equipment may leave messages by calling the teletype phone number on the job posting. For more information on accommodations please visit: Chance:
The County of Los Angeles is a Fair Chance employer. Except as otherwise permissible under applicable laws you will not be asked to provide information about conviction history unless you receive a conditional offer of employment. The County will make an individualized assessment of whether your conviction history has a direct and adverse relationship with the specific duties of the job and will also consider potential mitigating factors which may include but is not limited to evidence and extent of rehabilitation recency of the offense(s) and age at the time of the offense(s). If asked to provide information about conviction history any convictions or court records which are exempted by a valid court order do not have to be disclosed. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with County Fair Chance Policies and the Fair Chance Act (Gov. Code Section 12952.
Employment Eligibility:
Final appointment is contingent upon verification of U.S. citizenship or the right to work in the United States.
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Employment Type
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