MACON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
POSITION:
Social Services Income Maintenance Caseworker II or IMC I w/work against IMC II
ANNOUNCEMENT DATE:
SALARY RANGE:
6/08/2015
CLOSING DATE: until filled
Grade 23 IMC I $27,874.08 Grade 25 IMC II $ 30,731.22
RESPONSIBILITIES: This position which is located at Angel Medical Center is a dual purpose Income
Maintenance Caseworker I/ II position in the Family and Children’s Medicaid, and Work First Unit and conducts the
initial interviews and correctly determines the applicant’s eligibility for Family and Children’s Medicaid, N.C. Health
Choice and Work First Cash Assistance. This position also determines Medical Assistance to the Aged, Disabled,
and/or Blind and Carolina Access that is administered by Macon County DSS. Employee is responsible for
interviewing applicants to gather data according to a pre-determined format; obtains necessary verifications, requests
medical information inspects documents; which when verified, forms the basis for determining eligibility for any one
of several public assistance programs.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: Considerable knowledge of the program/area(s) of assignment.
General knowledge of all agency and community programs and services which could affect the client/applicant.
Good mathematical reasoning and computational skills. Ability to read, analyzes, and interprets 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 perform caseworker functions within
structured time frames.
MINIMUM TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: College education or High School graduation
and 2 years of specific experience of paraprofessional, clerical, or other public contact experience which included
negotiating, interviewing, explaining information, gathering and compiling of data, analysis of data and/or
performance in mathematical or legal tasks with at least one year of such experience being in an income maintenance
program; or graduation from high school and three years of paraprofessional, clerical or other public contact
experience which included negotiating, interviewing, explaining information, the gathering and compiling of data, the
analysis of data and/or the performance of mathematical or legal tasks; or equivalent combination of training and
experience. Exemplified computer proficiency is a must for this IMC II role.
SELECTION PROCEDURES: Structured interview using work sample exercises and skills test will be administered.
A screening committee will review applications to select the best qualified applicants to the interview. Applicants
admitted to the interview will be given a written test for simulated tasks to perform typical to those of the Social
Services Income Maintenance Caseworker and a computer performance test.
HOW TO APPLY: A State application PD 107 can be obtained from and must be submitted to DWS at the address
below. Include 3 references and an e-mail address on the application. A Criminal Background check will be
completed before hiring. No resumes may be considered, but may be attached to PD107. No applications are
accepted at Macon County DSS.
Division of Workforce Solutions – NC Works
Court House Annex
5 West Main Street
Franklin, NC 28734
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER/ADA EMPLOYER