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Efforts to fill vacant positions in APS
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Council Member Crystal Hudson inquires about efforts to fill the 80 vacant positions in Adult Protective Services (APS). John Rojas, Chief Special Services Officer, explains the current hiring process and recent improvements.
- 14 case workers are currently in the hiring pipeline
- The Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) has established a case worker civil service list
- APS has attended two civil service pools to recruit case workers, with another scheduled for the following week
- The civil service list expedites the hiring process compared to previous provisional hiring
- APS can now conduct round-robin interviewing with a pool of 50 candidates at a time
- The agency carefully selects candidates best suited for APS work
Crystal Hudson
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Okay.
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And then the 486 well you have 404 current positions, 80 vacant positions.
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Are you actively trying to fill those 80 vacancies?
John Rojas
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Yes, that's a great question.
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We currently, of those 80 we have 14 case workers in the pipeline and we're happy to report that in our collaboration with the Department of Citywide Administrative Services with DCAS, we have, or DCAS has established a case worker civil service list.
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So we've already attended two civil service pools to recruit case workers and we have another one coming up next Thursday, not this Thursday, next week Thursday.
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So, since, DCAS has established a pastor's pools, we can now quickly, identify candidates and begin the hiring process.
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Prior to the civil services, we were hiring provisionally case workers, but now there's there's a civil services that actually expedites our hiring process because we'll have a pool and we could have 50 candidates in one city and then do round robin interviewing and select the candidates that best qualify for APS.
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Not every person who comes to the pool is is adequate for for APS and we try to do our best to verify those who who we think are the best suited for this work.
Crystal Hudson
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Thank you.
0:47:43
And then can you just give me numbers for fiscal twenty four and '23 in terms of head count?
John Rojas
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I'm gonna have to get back to you on 2324.
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I don't have that in front of me, I can provide that after the hearing.
Crystal Hudson
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Okay.
John Rojas
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Thank you.