Klamath County is located in beautiful southern Oregon and home to the city of Klamath Falls, known as the state's City of Sunshine with over 300 days of sunshine annually. Klamath County offers everything for outdoor adventurers as well as a unique and diverse art community. We are home to Oregon Institute of Technology and Kingsley Field Air Base, where the 173 rd Fighter Wing resides. For more information about living in this community, please visit .
Klamath County seeks to find candidates who want to make this beautiful area their home and are looking for a position where their contributions are valued and recognized. Below is a brief overview of the Care Navigator position
. Please contact Human Resources for a more in-depth description of the job and more details on our extensive benefits package.
General Position Summary Performs professional correctional and program casework; supervising and managing activities of adult felony offenders for the corrections department. This position involves the participation and application of program goals and objectives to promote a strengths-based, wellness informed, client centered approach to assist individuals in achieving their goals.
Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Education, Certification, & Experience
- QMHA or a Bachelor's degree and ability to certify as a QMHA within one year of hire date
- Oregon Driver's License
- Certified in First Aid, CPR, and LEDS or ability to within one year of hire date
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Language Skills - Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
- Mathematical Skills - Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
- Reasoning Ability - Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
- Computer Skills - To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Internet software; Spreadsheet software and Microsoft Word and Excel Word Processing software.
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is frequently required to walk; sit; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to stand and climb or balance. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Salary and Benefits This is an hourly, non-exempt position, with a wage range of $ 27.00 - $ 35.14 per hour. The pay range listed here reflects the FULL pay range for this position for the current fiscal year. Salary offers are based on the candidate's equivalent experience and internal equity with other employees within the same job classification.
Klamath County also offers a generous benefits package, including County contributions to health insurance, County contributions to a retirement plan, paid life insurance, paid short term disability, paid time off and more.
Klamath County recognizes and understands the importance of being able to care for yourself and loved ones when your health and safety are affected. To show our support during those difficult events, Klamath County offers all of its employees up to 12 weeks of fully employer paid leave per benefit year for qualifying events.
Supervisory Responsibilities There are no supervisory responsibilities with this position.
Working Conditions The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; outside weather conditions and extreme cold. The employee is occasionally exposed to extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Work Schedule The normal work schedule is 8 hours per day 5 days per week; exact schedules are assigned by management. It is the attendance standard of the employer that all employees be present and on time each shift they are scheduled to work. Full or partial absence during any scheduled shift, arriving late, or leaving early, for whatever reason, may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment. Time off may be approved if allowed by applicable policies covering illness, injury, or other personal emergency.
Pre-screening Requirements - DMV Records Verification
- Klamath County Law Enforcement Criminal Background Investigation
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