Income Maintenance Caseworker II – Family and Children Medicaid Processing

Hiring Event on Oct 10, 2024 – 10am – 2pm at NC Works Career Center, 8998 US HWY 70 Business, Clayton, NC 27520

Description

The Johnston County DSS mission is to serve, aid and protect needy and vulnerable children and adults in ways that strengthen and preserve families. We provide human services programs that are intended to promote the health, well-being, self-sufficiency and protection of families, children and adults within our community.

Johnston County Department of Social Services has immediate openings for an Income Maintenance Caseworker II position in the Family and Children Medicaid Processing Unit.

Please Note: Johnston County DSS will accept Work Against candidates if fully qualified applicants are not located, salary for work against candidates will be determined and discussed

with Human Resources

at time of offer.

## Duties and Responsibilities

The primary purpose of this position is to re-determine eligibility for current Family and Childrens Medicaid recipients. This position obtains all necessary third party verifications and communicates with the Medicaid recipient in order to obtain all information necessary to re-determine eligibility. This position is also responsible for completing the necessary re-certification in the NC FAST system to ensure timely benefits are issued to the recipient upon completion of the re-certification.

## Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

– Considerable knowledge of the program/areas of assignment.
– General knowledge of all agency and community programs and services which could affect the client/applicant.
– Good knowledge of all agency and community programs and services which could affect the client/applicant.
– Good mathematical reasoning and computational skills.
– Ability to read, analyze, and interpret rules, regulations and procedures.
– Ability to communicate with clients/applicants, the public at large, and public officials to obtain data, and to explain and interpret rules, regulations and procedures.
– Ability to instruct and to evaluate the work of lower level employees.
– Ability to perform casework functions with structured time frames.

## Desired Education and Experience

[One year of experience as an Income Maintenance Caseworker I.

[Will accept IMC I work against:
[Graduation from high school and three years of paraprofessional, clerical, or other public contact experience which included negotiating, interviewing, explaining information, gathering and compiling of data, the analysis of data and/or the performance of mathematical or legal tasks; or an equivalent combination of training and experience.

[Please document all work history relevant to the position for which you are applying. Determination of qualifying for the position and salary may be based on years of experience listed on the application itself, not in supplemental documents attached. Failure to document complete work history may affect qualification determination and salary. Electronic applications cannot be amended once submitted.[
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