Deputy Public Guardian/Administrator

About the position

Under direction, supervises the operations of the County's Public Guardian/Administrator's (PG/PA) Office. Supervises staff providing guardianship, conservatorship, and money management services to persons under the jurisdiction of the PG. Coordinates care, including placement and treatment, and management of income and assets of conservatees, and supervises activities related to the administration of estates as ordered by the court. Performs related duties as required.

Responsibilities

• Assesses the human service needs, physical and mental, of the conservatees placed under the jurisdiction of the Public Guardian.
• Develops and/or supervises the development and implementation of care plans for conservatees which address the conservatees assessed needs and level of functioning; reviews such plans on an ongoing basis and modifies as appropriate.
• Oversees all assessments, investigations, and case plan development.
• Locates and directs the marshaling of all assets, including Social Security benefits, Veterans' benefits, other income, and personal and real property.
• Conducts and/or supervises all inventories for cash assets including real and personal property.
• Interviews, advises and confers with conservatees, relatives, and other collaterals as appropriate, concerning the conservatee's care and the administration of their estate.
• Completes detailed reports for the Superior Court which include the need for conservatorship, care plans to address the assessed needs, and accounting of all assets and disbursements.
• Prepares and maintains comprehensive, accurate and timely case reports, records and correspondence, including petitions and court reports; oversees the case work documentation of all those supervised.
• Provides management of estates of decedents, including the acquisition and disposition of real and personal property; oversees any necessary contracts for operation of property, liquidates assets as necessary, communicates with heirs, appraisers, creditors, title companies, etc.; examines all proofs of claimants to estates, settles all claims and bills filed against estates in PA case load.
• Arranges for the storing of personal property and assists in disposing of real and personal property through sale, public auction or disbursement to relatives, as appropriate and in accordance with all related Probate and Welfare and Institutions Code Sections.
• Supervises the development and implementation of computer based accounting and case management systems.
• Interprets the rules, regulations and policies of the Department to clients, staff and collaterals.
• Participates in the Adult Services Division Supervisory Meetings in the planning for the division and implementation of Department and Division policy.

Requirements

• One (1) year of full-time experience performing advanced journey level social work case management, as defined below, at the level, or the equivalent in education and experience, of the Social Worker III classification in Mendocino County.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university with a major in social welfare/social work, social/human services, sociology, or other social or behavioral science; AND three (3) years of full-time experience performing journey level social work case management.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited four year college or university with a major in any field with successful completion of 30 semester units (45 quarter) in social welfare, social/human services, sociology, or other social or behavioral science; AND four (4) years of full-time experience performing journey level social work case management.
• Possession of a valid California Driver's License.

Nice-to-haves

• One (1) year of formal or informal lead work or supplemental course work in office management, supervision or related field is desirable.