Social Service Assistant

We're Looking for a skilled Social Service Assistant in the Bureau Of Naval Personnel based in Charleston, South Carolina. Read through the job description to see if it matches your current experience.

The Successful Applicant

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS07 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: 1) Counseling prisoners within a correctional setting in accordance with rules and regulations of a correctional institution 2) Conducting group or individual counseling of diverse individuals in order to meet treatment goals and 3) Maintaining records and case files of an extensive caseload to ensure entries reflect counseling in an accurate secure and retrievable manner and 4) Serving as a member of a treatment team to develop program plans and deliver counseling services. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policydataoversight/classificationqualifications/generalschedulequalificationstandards/urlListbyOccupationalSeries Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. professional philanthropic religious spiritual community student social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies knowledge and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. PREA Standard 115.17: Agency policy prohibits hiring or promoting anyone who may have contact with inmates and prohibits enlisting the services of any contractor who may have contact with inmates who: Has engaged in sexual abuse in a prison jail lockup community confinement facility juvenile facility or other institution (as defined in 42 U.S.C. 1997) Has been convicted of engaging or attempting to engage in sexual activity in the community facilitated by force overt or implied threats of force or coercion or if the victim did not consent or was unable to consent or refuse or Has been civilly or administratively adjudicated to have engaged in the activity described in paragraph (a)(2) of this section. Agency policy requires the consideration of any incidents of sexual harassment in determining whether to hire or promote anyone or to enlist the services of any contractor who may have contact with inmates. Agency policy requires that before it hires any new employees who may have contact with inmates it (a) conducts criminal background record checks and (b) consistent with federal state and local law makes its best efforts to contact all prior institutional employers for information on substantiated allegations of sexual abuse or any resignation during a pending investigation of an allegation of sexual abuse. YES OR NO (FROM 115.17(c)1) In the past 12 months: The number of persons hired who may have contact with inmates who have had criminal background record checks: (FROM 115.17(c)2) The percent of persons hired who may have contact with inmates who have had criminal background record checks: (CALCULATED FROM 115.17(c)2 AND OF STAFF WHO HAVE CONTACT WITH INMATES FROM FACILITY CHARACTERISTICS) 115.17 (f) The agency shall ask all applicants and employees who may have contact with inmates directly about previous misconduct described in paragraph (a) of this section in written applications or interviews for hiring or promotions and in any interviews or written selfevaluations conducted as part of reviews of current employees. The agency shall also impose upon employees a continuing affirmative duty to disclose any such misconduct. Agency policy states that material omissions regarding such misconduct or the provision of materially false information shall be grounds for termination.

What’s on Offer

The role offers excellent opportunities for top performers to further develop their competencies as a social worker and improving the lives of people.