Highland Valley Elder Services, Inc. 320 Riverside Drive, Florence, MA 01062 Company Description: Highland Valley serves people throughout our communities with compassion. We honor diverse experience and identities as we strive to provide the best possible service according to individual needs. Salary Range: Location: 15 Per Hour FLORENCE MA Job Type: Category: Full Time Human Services Education Level: Work Experience: Bachelor's Degree Preference: Required 2+ Preference: Nice to have Skills/Certifications/Licences: Description: SUMMARY: The Protective Service Worker engages in activities related to the determina¬tion of eligibility for protective services and the provision and arrangement of services with elders de¬termined to be suffering from a reportable condition of abuse as defined in 651 CMR 5.02(31). AUTHORITY: This position reports to and is supervised by the Protective Services Program Director. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Receive reports of the abuse of elders and determines whether there is reason¬able cause to believe that a reportable condition exists. 2. Determine whether an emergency or non emergency situation exists and re¬spond to emergency situations when necessary within working hours, or as negotiated. 3. Conduct protective assessments of abused elders to include evalu¬ating the functional capacity, situation, and resources of abused elders. 4. Develop, with abused elders, protective service treatment plans; providing or arranging for the provision of Protective and other services to abused elders. This can involve work with the Probate Court or District Attorney's Office. 5. Monitor the provision of services necessary to alleviate abuse and neglect until case can be closed. 6. Maintain the case file by completing all mandated paperwork in a timely fashion according to required documentation standards. 7. Community organization work to help educate the community to the issue of elder abuse; developing the effective inter agency relationships necessary in order to utilize the multi disciplinary resources available in the community for abused elders. 8. Responsible for after hour, on call coverage one week at a time to be shared with other staff. 9. Provide back up to care management system as needed. 10. Responsible for carrying out other duties as assigned by the Protective Serv¬ices Program Director. 11. Participate in training and development activities to keep up with knowledge/ skills leading to strong performance in this position. 12. Participates in required quality performance initiatives within program area. Requirements: