• Senior Social Welfare Examiner
• Social Welfare Examiner Study Guide

Supplemental Information/Subject of Examination/General Information HOW TO APPLY: ONLINE APPLICATIONS are available at www.nassaucivilservice.comThe advantages of filing electronically include the storage of submitted applications in your personal user account and application processing fee payment by credit/debit card. Additionally, our Examination Announcements webpage includes a link entitled Job Descriptions and Job Interest Cards, which offers the opportunity to view class specifications and fill out a form so that you may receive an email notification when an open competitive examination for a particular title is announced in the future. HARD COPY APPLICATIONS are available in our office at 40 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Hempstead, NY during the hours of 9:00 AM to 4:45 PM, Monday thru Friday. To receive a hard copy application by mail, forwarded to us a stamped (70¢), self-addressed 4' x 9' envelope, which we must receive at least five days before the filing deadline (write Exam No, and title on the back flap).

RESIDENCY: SEE ITEM NO. 5 OF GENERAL INFORMATION. CANDIDATES MUST HAVE BEEN LEGAL RESIDENTS OF NASSAU COUNTY AND/OR A CONTIGUOUS COUNTY (SUFFOLK, BROOKLYN, QUEENS, MANHATTAN, BRONX, STATEN ISLAND AND WESTCHESTER) FOR AT LEAST TWELVE MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE OF THE WRITTEN TEST AND MAINTAIN RESIDENCY IN NASSAU COUNTY OR A CONTIGUOUS COUNTY UNTIL APPOINTMENT FROM THE ELIGIBLE LIST ESTABLISHED AS A RESULT OF THIS EXAMINATION.

PREFERENCE IN APPOINTMENT WILL BE GIVEN TO SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES WHO ARE LEGAL RESIDENTS OF NASSAU COUNTY BY THE DATE THE LIST IS CERTIFIED FOR APPOINTMENT. FEE: NON-REFUNDABLE Processing Fee must be submitted for each separately numbered examination for which you apply. For online applications only, this fee may be paid by credit or debit card.

For hard copy applications, a certified bank check or money order (include examination number(s) ) MADE PAYABLE TO NASSAU COUNTY must be submitted with your application, NO CASH OR PERSONAL CHECKS WILL BE ACCEPTED. CAREFULLY REVIEW THE MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS ON THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO ENSURE THAT YOU MEET THEM, AS THIS IS A NON-REFUNDABLE PROCESSING FEE. Applications submitted without proper payment will be rejected without review. APPLICATION FEE WAIVER: A waiver of application fee will be allowed if you are unemployed and primarily responsible for the support of a household. In addition, a waiver of application fee will be allowed if you are determined eligible for Medicaid, or receiving Supplemental Security Income payments, or Public Assistance (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families/Family Assistance or Safety Net Assistance) or are certified Job Training Partnership Act/Workforce Investment Act eligible through a State or local social service agency.

All claims for application fee waiver are subject to verification. If you can verify eligibility for application fee waiver, it may be requested in the following ways: ONLINE APPLICATION: When prompted to submit the application processing fee, choose the Fee Waiver option. Follow the directions regarding downloading and submitting the required fee waiver form. HARD COPY APPLICATION: Complete a 'Request for Application Fee Waiver and Certification' form (available in our office) and submit it with your application by the close of business on the Application Deadline as listed on the Examination Announcement. SPECIAL TEST ACCOMMODATIONS: If you are either Physically Disabled and in need of reasonable test accommodations, and/or are in need of an alternate examination date due to a conflict with either a Religious Observance or Military Service Commitment, please answer 'yes' to the appropriate question(s) in the application. NOTE: SEE ITEM NO. 6 OF GENERAL INFORMATION REGARDING ADDITIONAL CREDITS FOR VETERANS, AND FOR CHILDREN/SIBLINGS OF FIREFIGHTERS/POLICE OFFICERS WHO QUALIFY UNDER SECTIONS 85A/85B OF CIVIL SERVICE LAW.

IF YOU BELIEVE YOU QUALIFY FOR SUCH CREDITS, ANSWER 'YES' TO THE APPLICABLE QUESTION(S) IN THE APPLICATION. VACANCIES: SEE ITEM NO. 4 OF GENERAL INFORMATION FOR INFORMATION REGARDING VACANCIES AND BACKGROUND CHECK REQUIREMENTS FOR APPOINTMENT TO CERTAIN POSITIONS.

NOTE: More than two no-responses to canvass letters will result in the removal of a candidate from the eligible list. TOTAL TIME ALLOWED FOR EXAMINATIONS HELD ON THIS DATE MAY NOT EXCEED EIGHT HOURS. SUBJECT OF EXAMINATION: A written test designed to evaluate knowledge, skills and /or abilities in the following areas: 1. Interpreting and applying written Social Welfare program materials, and using basic arithmetic in determining eligibility for assistance - You will be presented with written passages related to Social Services policies and procedures and be asked to interpret their meaning and/or apply this material to hypothetical case situations.

Secondly, you will be given sets of written instructions and regulations regarding such Social Services programs as cash assistance, medical assistance, and food stamps. You must read and understand the instructions given, including schedules of arithmetic figures, and apply these instructions to hypothetical case problems. Some questions require using arithmetic to compute the correct amount of assistance.

Previous knowledge of Social Services programs or the eligibility process is not required. Recording case notes - You will be given several sentences from a typical case report paragraph and one additional sentence. You must determine the best place in the paragraph to put the additional sentence in order to make the report coherent and meaningful. Interviewing - You must apply principles and techniques of interviewing to such problems as asking and answering questions, explaining requirements and helping the client understand his or her responsibilities, helping the client feel at ease, structuring and controlling the interview, reacting appropriately to inconsistencies, dealing with a variety of feelings of clients, maintaining confidentiality, and identifying the need for and making appropriate referrals. In addition, some questions may deal with contacting or interacting with other community organizations and agencies to benefit the client or the general public.

NOTE: Unless otherwise notified, candidates are permitted to use quiet, hand held, solar or battery powered calculators. Devices with typewriter keyboards such as computers, spell-checkers, personal digital assistants, address books, language translators, dictionaries, and any similar devices are prohibited. NOTE: If you have not received notice within three days of the examination date of June 25, 2016, call the Commission (572-2713). NOTE: A Guide for the Written Test for this examination is available at the New York State Department of Civil Service website: www.cs.ny.gov/testing/localtestguides.cfm (click on the Social Welfare Examiner Series link). Candidates not having access to a computer or the internet may obtain a copy of the test guide at our office at 40 Main Street, Hempstead, New York. Candidates may also obtain this guide by sending to our office a self-addressed 4' X 9' (business size) envelope with 70¢ postage. On the back flap of the envelope write 'Social Welfare Examiner I Study Guide'.

Please note that this guide will be the only item sent back to you in that envelope. IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CANDIDATE TO NOTIFY THIS COMMISSION, IN WRITING, OF ANY CHANGE OF NAME, MAILING/LEGAL/EMAIL ADDRESS, OR PHONE NUMBER: INDICATE EXAMINATION NUMBER AND TITLE, AND YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. DISABLED VETERANS: Visit our homepage at www.nassaucivilservice.com to view information (including a downloadable credit request form) on a recent amendment to the New York Constitution regarding the award and use of additional credits for certain disabled veterans on civil service examinations. The credit request form is also available in our office at 40 Main St., Hempstead NY.

GENERAL INFORMATION1. APPLYING: Inquiries should be directed to the Executive Director, Nassau County Civil Service Commission. The Commission does not acknowledge receipt of hard copy applications, and does not accept responsibility for non-delivery or postal delay. The Commission reserves the right to reject for lateness or to accept applications filed after the advertised filing period. TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE: The burden of establishing qualifications to the satisfaction of the Commission shall be upon the applicant. For the purpose of meeting the training and experience requirement of any examination, no credits shall be given for any work experience which is determined by the Commission to have been gained or acquired in violation of the provisions of the Civil Service Law. Where required, certificates, licenses, and military separation papers (DD214) must be submitted with your application.

Proof of claimed education, (copy of your high school diploma, Military, GED, New York State or comparable Equivalency Diploma) may be required to be submitted with the application. If education beyond high school is required, official transcripts must be submitted directly to us by the school College education is considered at the rate of 30 credits completed per year. For open competitive qualifications only, paid experience, if other than on a full time basis will be prorated. Volunteer experience may be accepted if verifiable, and the experience claimed must have been in a structured program. Documentation signed by an official of the agency indicating hours per week, level of work, etc. Must be provided. Where additional experience may be substituted for an academic degree/diploma, the interpretation of the note, generally, is that for a full substitution, the underlying educational requirement for a Master's degree must be a Bachelor's degree; for a Bachelor's degree, it must be a High School Diploma/High School Equivalency Diploma; for a High School Diploma, it must be satisfactory completion of tenth or eighth grade education, as appropriate.

THE EXAMINATION: You must bring the official notice for admittance to the examination. Approved candidates will be notified when and where to appear for examination. If an application is rejected, the candidate will be notified. CANDIDATES APPLYING FOR EXAMINATIONS ADMINISTERED BY OTHER JURISDICTIONS WITHIN, AND INCLUDING, NEW YORK STATE SHOULD CONTACT THIS OFFICE NO LESS THAN TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE DATE OF THE WRITTEN TEST AS IT OTHERWISE MAY NOT BE POSSIBLE TO MAKE ARRANGEMENTS. FAILURE TO PROVIDE SUCH INFORMATION MAY RESULT IN DISQUALIFICATION FROM ONE OR MORE EXAMINATIONS IN THE SERIES.

Candidates may be fingerprinted at the time of the examination and subsequent thereto, as required. Total time allowed for examinations held on a particular date may not exceed eight hours. Alternate examination date requests must be made to this Commission as soon as the conflict/problem arises; documentation is required, and will be reviewed against established criteria. In the event of illness, written verification from a professional health care provider is required. Generally, the alternate date that examinations can be administered is no later than the Friday following the original test date. The Commission reserves the right, after this announcement is issued, to subdivide the examination and/or require a specific passing mark in one or more of such subdivisions in order that a candidate be considered further for eligibility. Notice of such arrangement will be given in the examination instructions.

A record of disrespect for the requirements and processes of law, including repeated traffic offenses or disregard of summonses for traffic offenses, is grounds for disqualification for examination, or after examination, for certification and appointment. Examinations prepared and rated by the New York State Department of Civil Service will be in accordance with Section 23-2 of the Civil Service Law. Examinations prepared and rated by the Nassau County Civil Service Commission will be in accordance with the rules and regulations of this Commission. ELIGIBLE LISTS, PLACEMENT, AND ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR APPOINTMENT TO CERTAIN POSITIONS: Vacancies: Eligible lists resulting from examinations may be limited to a sufficient number of passing candidates to fill vacancies. Additional candidates may be processed for certification from the lists as the need arises. Eligible lists remain in force for one year, and may be extended by the Commission not to exceed four years.

Candidates must be psychologically and physically fit to perform the duties required for the position. Medical or psychological examination may be required. When there is a need for employees to fill vacancies on a part time basis the eligible list may be canvassed for that purpose. Changing conditions occasionally result in certification and offers of employment at higher or lower salaries than those announced. Special Requirement for Appointment to CERTAIN positions in School Districts and Boces: Per Chapter 180 of the Laws of 2000, and by Regulations of the Commissioner of Education, to be employed in a position designated by a school district or BOCES as involving direct contact with students, a clearance for employment from the State Education Department is required. If you are considered for such a position, you will be instructed at the appropriate time as to your responsibilities in this clearance process (if fingerprinting is required, there may be an additional fee which you may be responsible for). FINGERPRINTING REQUIREMENT FOR APPOINTMENT TO CERTAIN POSITIONS: In compliance with various laws, appointment to certain positions may require candidates to undergo a fingerprint check for the purpose of a criminal history record check.

If you are considered for such a position, you will be instructed at the appropriate time as to where/when such fingerprinting will take place (you may be responsible for paying applicable fingerprinting fees). RESIDENCY: To fulfill the standard residency requirements, each candidate for open competitive examination must have been a bona fide resident and dweller of Nassau County for at least one year immediately preceding the advertised date of examination and maintain that residency until appointed from the eligible list established as a result of the examination.

Senior Social Welfare Examiner

Preference in appointment may be given to successful candidates who are legal residents and dwellers of the appointing municipality. Appointing municipalities may, by virtue of local law, establish special residency requirements. ADDITIONAL CREDITS: VETERAN'S CREDITS: A veteran may be granted additional credits to be added to a passing score of an examination, as follows: Non Disabled Vet: Open Competitive Exam: 5 points; Promotion Exam: 2.5 points Disabled Vet: Open Competitive Exam: 10 points; Promotion Exam: 5 points The veteran must have: served on full-time active duty for purposes other than training; served during 'wartime'; been honorably discharged or released under honorable circumstances. In addition, beginning January 1, 1998, the NYS Constitution allows members of the US Armed Forces who are on active duty the right to request extra War Time Veterans credits on civil service examinations. Refer to the official application for specific dates and other requirements.

Veteran's credit may be requested for each examination until actually used, for appointment from a list. Choose which category you meet the minimum qualifications. Associate's Degree from, or completion of, two years of study (60 credits), at a regionally accredited or New York State registered college or university. I understand I must have my college send this commission an official transcript. Foreign education must be evaluated by an acceptable evaluation service provider. (www.Naces.org).

Graduation from high school and Two years of satisfactory experience examining, and/or investigating, and/or evaluating claims for assistance, and/or veterans and/or unemployment benefits, and/or a similar program operating under established criteria for eligibility. When giving a job description include: Name of employer, Job Title, Duties performed by you, Start and End Date (Month/Year), Hours worked per week.Include all relevant experience. Additional experience may not be accepted after the application is reviewed.Give the average hours worked per week.

Example 40 hours worked per week. Do not give a range of hours worked per week. Example 20-30 hours worked per week. You will only receive credit for the lowest amount given.Part-time experience is prorated.Give the month and year of your start and end dates worked. If partial dates are submitted, you will receive credit for the least amount of time.If you had more than one title at same employer, list as separate employment.Proof of claimed self-employment experience is required.

Company bills, letterheads, corporation papers, etc. I understand I must submit all relevant experience information.

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