Executive Assistant to the Town Manager

Position Summary And Job Duties Ensures continuity and effectiveness of agency services in conformity with law, best practices and with agency policy and procedures. Provides direct supervision as well as clinical consultation and oversight. Through individual and group conferences, works to increase staff therapeutic skills and social work expertise and maintains professional standards of social work practice. Work is performed under the direction of a superior and is reviewed through conferences, reports, and observation of results.

Success Factors (KSA’s)

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Directly supervises assigned agency staff providing human services.
• Provides clinical oversight and consultation to direct subordinate staff as well as certain juvenile probation and child protective services staff who provide mental health, family intervention and /or therapeutic services.
• Shares on-call supervision duties on evenings and weekends according to a rotating schedule.
• May direct and /or coordinate agency service programs.
• Maintains contact and works cooperatively with the Mental Health / AODA Clinician and contracted psychiatrists.
• Coordinates with the human services department billing unit to assure services provided are, to the extent possible, being billed to obtain third party revenue reimbursement.
• Assures caseload coverage and assigns cases.
• Reviews and evaluates case needs.
• Participates in research and in the review and development of agency programs, policies and procedures.
• Promotes intra and inter agency cooperation and represents the agency in meetings related to agency programs.
• Assesses requests from juvenile probation, child protective services and outside agencies for more restrictive interventions with children and families, including out-of-home placements.
• Provides for and conducts staff training.
• Reviews information included in client files to monitor proper documentation and as a tool for evaluating casework.
• Works cooperatively with adult crisis unit.
• Conducts interviews for social work applicants.
• Prepares required statistical reports.
• Oversees grant or other special funding sources.
• Assists in the organization’s budget process and monitors program budget(s).
• Performs related work as required.
• Maintains regular and prompt attendance.

Job Requirements, Education, Training & Experience The attributes listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Knowledge of the mental health statutes, administrative codes and current treatment modalities as they relate to children, youth and families.
• Considerable knowledge of approved social casework principles and methods in the field of welfare, family inter-relationships, and individual and group behavior.
• Considerable knowledge of current social and economic problems and the way in which they affect families and individuals.
• Thorough knowledge of laws, regulations, and practices pertaining to federal and state public welfare programs.
• Knowledge of revenue reimbursement options for mental health and other services provided to children, youth and families, including: Medical Assistance (MA), Wisconsin’s Children’s Long-Term Support (CLTS) Medicaid Waivers; Social Security Disability Income (SSDI); and Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
• Considerable knowledge of community welfare and health resources and ways in which these resources may be made available to people in need.
• Knowledge of literature in the field of public welfare, children’s mental health and social work.
• Knowledge of community organization principles and practices.
• Ability to direct and supervise the work of others.
• Ability to stimulate staff growth and development and to give effective casework consultation.
• Ability to maintain perspective between different parts of the job and balance between the various programs.
• Ability to communicate ideas effectively.
• Ability to record material diagnostically.
• Ability to recognize individual differences in workers and to gauge their learning patterns and potential for independent work.

Essential Job Functions (physical Elements, Equipment And Working Conditions)

• Masters degree from accredited college or university with a m…