Senior Employment Specialist
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Introduction
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.
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. Failure to submit the Application or Supplemental Questionnaire will result in disqualification.
Applications and Supplemental Questionnaires will only beaccepted online.
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 Languages are especially encouraged to apply. There is an additional biweekly compensation for persons in positions designated bilingual. Qualified candidates may be tested to demonstrate language proficiency.
DESCRIPTION
Alameda County located on the east side ofSan Francisco Bay is Californias seventhlargest county. The Countyemploys 9700 fulltime employees and operates on an annual budget of $3.4billion. Oakland the County seat is Californias eighthlargestcity. One and a half million people call Alameda County home and live ina variety of incorporated cities unincorporated communities and ruralareas. As a major urban county Alameda provides a full range of servicesto its citizens. The County is a blend of culturally and ethnicallydiverse communities and its mixture of cosmopolitan and suburban areasprovides the perfect environment for families and their activelifestyles. The County offers extensive cultural resources countlessrecreational opportunities and an array of fine public and private collegesand universities.
ALAMEDA COUNTY HEALTH
Alameda County Health is the local government agency that promotes and protects the health and wellbeing of all who live work learn and play in Alameda County. We coordinate services and cultivate partnerships with community organizations and providers to help ensure access organize and deliver health care and services to people with MediCal and without insurance support resilient communities and improve health for all. We focus on health equity by developing programs and systemic solutions that reduce disparities for the people and communities we serve.
Alameda County Healths departments and programs focus on services and support that provide care for the whole person.
The Behavioral Health Department provides mental health and substance use services for people with MediCal and without insurance and supports people along their path to wellness recovery and resilience.
The Environmental Health Department works to keep our air water and food safe; it regulates protects and promotes the health of everyone in Alameda County by enforcing environmental health codes to reduce exposure to toxins and diseases.
The Public Health Department focuses on community and populationlevel health preventing and addressing root causes of health inequity across a range of communicable and chronic diseases.
Alameda County Health also provides services through Housing and Homelessness Services Emergency Medical Services Agency HealthPAC and Healthy Schools and Communities.
BEHAVIORALHEALTH DEPARTMENT
As part of Alameda County Health the Behavioral Health Department supports people with MediCal and without insurance living with serious mental illness and substance use conditions along their path toward wellness recovery and resiliency. We provide services through a network of contracted mental health and substance use providers and administer the States resources and training for behavioral health providers case managers and other healthcare professionals. We advocate for our patients and families and create space for personal engagement in their care.
We are outpatient specialists for mental health services for older adults and youth substance use providers and treatment program specialists advocates for quality improvement and patients rights and psychiatric and integrated health care providers.
For more information about the Behavioral Health Departmentplease visit.
THE POSITION
Under general direction from the Division Director to supervise multidisciplinary staff providing vocational and employment services to Mental Health clients; to personally perform therapeutic rehabilitative and related services; and to do related work as required.
Senior Employment Specialist is the firstline supervisory level in the Employment Specialist series. Incumbents provide the full range of supervisory duties including delegating work scheduling staff training evaluating performance addressing discipline program planning and performing limited administrative duties. This supervisor is a specialist in the implementation and monitoring of the Evidenced Based Practice Individual Placement and Support Supported Employment but will also need to be knowledgeable in billing standards of MediCal. Senior Employment Specialists are responsible for assisting with the daily operation of the mental health program and team such as at the Vocational Program. In addition Senior Employment Specialists generally have responsibility for only one program and may carry a modified caseload.
For more detailed information about the job classification please visit: Senior Employment Specialist #6780.
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE
In addition to meeting the established minimum qualifications the ideal candidate for the Senior Employment Specialist will:
Know principles and practices of effective supervision training program planning and community mental health consultation;
Utilize creative engagement strategies to address ambivalent clients resistant employers and guarded family members;
Communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing;
Interview counsel and maintain effective working relations with clients family members employers schools county staff and other agencies;
Know and have experience with psychosocial factors relevant to mental health such as personality human growth and development interpersonal relationships family dynamics community integration and socioeconomic resource provisions substance abuse including the relevance of these as related to plan development and establishing wellness and recovery goals;
Know and stay current with vocational rehabilitation principles and methods particularly as they relate to mental health clients; understanding of current evidenced based innovations related to good rehab practices;
Know the business community personnel management and employer needs assessments to assist staff in accessing jobs on behalf of assigned clients.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
EITHER I
Experience:
The equivalent of five 5 years of fulltime experience as an Employment Specialist II in the Alameda County classified service.
OR II
Education:
Possession of a Bachelors Degree from a recognized college or university.
AND
Experience:
The equivalent of three 3 years direct supervisory experience in either human services professions such as rehabilitation psychology counseling job solicitation marketing or business AND direct service experience working with disabled or disadvantaged populations (such as mentally ill substance abuse homeless or cooccurring).
License: Possession of a valid California Motor Vehicle operators license is required for both levels.
NOTE: The Civil Service Commission may modify the above Minimum Qualifications in the announcement of an examination.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
The most suitably qualified candidates will possess the following competencies:
- Psychosocial factors relevant to mental health such as personality human growth and development interpersonal relationships family dynamics community integration and socioeconomic resource provisions substance abuse including the relevance of these as related to plan development and establishing wellness and recovery goals.
- Dynamics of personal and social adjustment normal and abnormal behavior and current psychiatric diagnostic techniques appropriate to rehabilitative work.
- Vocational Rehabilitation principles and methods particularly as they relate to mental health clients; understanding of current evidenced based innovations related to good rehab practices.
- Principles and practices of effective supervision training program planning and community mental health consultation.
- Creative engagement strategies to address ambivalent clients resistant employers and guarded family members.
- Various mental health facilities and levels of treatment vocational rehabilitation programs and public and private community agencies concerned with mental health.
- The business community personnel management employer needs assessments as required to assist staff to access jobs on behalf of assigned clients.
- Statistical research and evaluative methods pertinent to mental health programs and Evidenced Based Practices in the field.
- Psychopharmacologys impact on a clients ability to work or how adjustment to medication can impact work outcomes.
- Multisocial ethnic and cultural groups.
Ability to:
- Interview counsel and maintain effective working relations with clients family members employers schools county staff and other agencies.
- Develop individualized practical and effective employment training plans.
- Understand terms and best practices in both mental health and drug and alcohol treatment.
- Effectively market and represent a program its clients and services to employers.
- Work with a diverse client population.
- Know a variety of different engagement tools to progress clients with ambivalence.
- Utilize retention strategies to help consumers keep working.
- Communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing.
- Administer examinations/ vocational testing and draw valid conclusions from their results.
- Work cooperatively and effectively with community agencies service providers school officials and the public.
- Write clear and concise reports.
EXAMINATION COMPONENTS
The examination will consist of the following steps:
1 A review of candidates applications to verify possession of minimumrequirements. Those candidates who possess the minimum requirements for theclassification will move on to the next step in the examination process.
2 A review of candidates Supplemental Questionnaires to select the bestqualified applicants. Those candidates selected as best qualified will move onto the next step in the examination process.
3 An oral interview examination which will be weighted as 100 of thecandidates final examination score. The oral interview examination may containsituational exercises.
CANDIDATES MUST ATTAIN A QUALIFYING RATING ON EACHPORTION OF THIS EXAMINATION.
We reserve the right to make changes to the announcedexamination components.
Alameda County utilizes a Civil Service Selection System founded on a system is competitive and based on broad recruitment efforts and equalopportunity for qualified applicants to test in an examination process designedto determine the qualifications fitness and ability of competitors to performduties of the vacant position. Many of our recruitments are targeted andspecific to the needs of a current vacant position in which case the eligiblelist may be exclusively used for that current vacant position. Otherrecruitments may be more broadly used for both current and future vacancies orfor other alternate jobs with comparable scopes of work.
To learn more about ourrecruitment and selection process please visit the What You Need to Knowsection of our website.
RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION PLAN
Applicants will be informed via email with reasonable noticeinadvance of any examination process which will require their following dates are tentative and subject to change based on the needs ofthe Agency:
TENTATIVE RECRUITMENT PLAN:
Deadline For Filing:
5:00:00 p.m. Monday May 5 2025
Review of Minimum Qualifications
Review of Supplemental Questionnaire for Best Qualified
May 9 2025
May
Virtual Prerecorded Civil Service Oral Examination:
Virtual Oral Examination Ratings:
Results Notification:
Promulgation of Eligible List:
June
June 1724 2025
Week of June 30 2025
July 23 2025
TENTATIVE SELECTION PLAN:
Departmental Hiring Interviews:
July 2025
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES TO THE ANNOUNCEDRECRUITMENT & SELECTION PLAN
Alameda County and the Human Resource Services Department will makereasonable efforts in the examination and/or selection process to accommodatequalified individuals with disabilities and/or medical conditions inaccordance/compliance with the State Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA)Federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Alameda Countys ReasonableAccommodation Policy and applicable statues. To request an accommodationdue to a disability/medical condition during this or other phases of theexamination/selection process please contact the assigned Human ResourcesRepresentative listed on the job announcement before the last date offiling. Alameda County requires applicants to provide supportingdocumentation to substantiate a request for reasonable accommodation. In orderto qualify for a reasonable accommodation applicants must have adisability/medical condition pursuant to the ADA FEHA and applicable statutes.
For more informationregarding our Reasonable Accommodation procedures please visit our website County offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that affords wideranging health care options to meet the different needs of a diverse workforce and their families. We also sponsor many employee discount fitness and health screening programs focused on overall wellbeing. These benefits include but are not limited to*:
For your Health & WellBeing
- Medical HMO & PPO Plans
- Dental HMO & PPO Plans
- Vision or Vision Reimbursement
- Share the Savings
- Basic Life Insurance
- Supplemental Life Insurance (with optional dependent coverage for eligible employees)
- Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
- County Allowance Credit
- Flexible Spending Accounts Health FSA Dependent Care and Adoption Assistance
- ShortTerm Disability Insurance
- LongTerm Disability Insurance
- Voluntary Benefits Accident Insurance Critical Illness LongTerm Care Hospital Indemnity and Legal Services
- Employee Assistance Program
For your Financial Future
- Retirement Plan (Defined Benefit Pension Plan)
- Deferred Compensation Plan 457 Plan or Roth Plan)
For your Work/Life Balance
- 12 paid holidays
- Floating Holidays
- Vacation and sick leave accrual
- Vacation purchase program
- Management Paid Leave**
- Catastrophic Sick Leave
- Pet Insurance
- 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
- 1stUnited Services Credit Union
*Eligibility is determined by Alameda County and offerings may vary by collective bargaining agreement. This provides a summary of the benefits offered and can be subject to change.
** Nonexempt management employees are entitled to up to three 3 days of management paid leave. Exempt management employees are entitled to up to eight 8 days of management paid leave.
Conclusion
All notices related to County recruitments for which youhave applied will be sent/delivered via email. Please add @@ and as accepted addressesto any email blocking or spam filtering program you may use. If you do not dothis your email blocking or spam filtering program may block receipt of thenotices regarding your application for recruitments. You are also strongly advisedto regularly log into your County of Alameda online application account tocheck for notices that may have been sent to you. All email notices that willbe sent to you will also be kept in your personal online application will be able to view all of your notices in your online application accountby clicking on the My applications button on the Current JobOpenings page.
Please take the stepsrecommended above to ensure you do not miss any notices about a recruitment forwhich you have applied. The County of Alameda is not responsible for noticesthat are not read received or accessed by any applicant for a County recruitment.
NOTE: All notices aregenerated through an automated email notification system. Replies to the emailboxes and are routed tounmonitored mailboxes. If you have questions please go to our website at . You may also contactthe Human Resources Analyst listed on the job announcement for the recruitment for which you have applied.
NicoleLewisBoltonHuman Resources Analyst
Human Resource Services County of Alameda
Disaster ServiceWorker
All Alameda County employees are designated Disaster Service Workers through state and local with the County requires the affirmation of a loyalty oath to this effect. Employees are required to report to work as ordered in the event of an emergency.
Equal EmploymentOpportunity
Alameda County has a diverse workforce that is representative of thecommunities we serve and is proud to be an equal opportunity aspects of employment are based on merit competence performance andbusiness need. Alameda County does not discriminate in employment on the basisof: race color religion sex (including pregnancy and gender identity)national origin political affiliation sexual orientation marital statusdisability genetic information age membership in an employee organizationretaliation parental status military service or other nonmerit factorsprotected under federal state and local law. Alameda County celebratesdiversity and is committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming workplaceenvironment.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
