Case Specialist - Worcester, United States - Probate & Family Court Dept

Description

The Probate and Family Court Department's mission is to deliver timely justice to the public by providing equal access to a fair, equitable, and efficient forum to solve family and probate legal matters and to help and protect all individuals, families, and children impartially and respectfully.

This series is responsible for performing a variety of duties related to the processing of cases, including entering data in automated systems, within an office of a Clerk-Magistrate, a Register of Probate, or an equivalent office.

• In addition to case processing duties, this series is responsible for providing service to the public and other individuals who have business with the court, consistent with policies on confidentiality.
• The position titles above the entry level require the performance of increasingly more responsible and varied work which requires more knowledge of court procedures and operations and the exercise of more independent judgment. Employees are hired at the entry level position title and are eligible for reclassification to the higherlevel position titles within this series consistent with the specifications for the higherlevel position titles. The position titles revert to the entry level when there are vacancies.

Employees are appointed to the entry level and are eligible to advance to the higher levels consistent with this job description and Trial Court policies.

• Case Specialist I
• This is the entry level position title within this series. Employees at this level are expected to perform a variety of duties which teach them the business of the office or a major work unit within an office.

• This is the second level position title within this series. Employees at this second level are expected to perform more complex case processing functions within a major work unit of an office and to be able to perform those functions within the other major work units as required. They are also expected to perform administrative support functions.

• This is the third level position title within this series. Employees at this third level are expected to perform advanced case processing functions within a major work unit of an office with limited supervision, to be able to perform those functions within the other major work units, and to be able to provide occasional assistance in a court session as required.

• This is the fourth level within this series. Employees at this fourth level are expected to function as a resource person within a major work unit of an office, to be able to perform the full range of case processing responsibilities in all work units as required, to assist in the training of employees, and to be able to provide regular assistance in any court session as required. May also serve as a backup to a Case Coordinator.

• Receives training and assists experienced users on MassCourts, a comprehensive, integrated case management system which features electronic filing of complaints, extensive docketing, scheduling, and management reporting, or on another case processing system.
• Performs general case intake duties, including receiving court papers and documents, determining general case category, making docket entries, either manually or through an automated case processing system as necessary, and preparing case file folders.
• Prepares manually or enters through an automated case processing system as necessary, complaints, petitions, summonses, warrants, daily lists, orders of commitment, other standard form documents, and updates to case information. Such functions may be performed in an office or in a courtroom.
• Sends out notices to various parties and attorneys.
• Answers incoming phone calls, routes callers to appropriate personnel, takes messages, and provides routine information in response to inquiries.
• Copies, files, retrieves, and sorts court papers, documents and folders according to established procedures.
• Receives, date stamps, sorts, and distributes incoming mail. Processes outgoing mail.
• Performs cashiering duties, including receiving money, determining case type, making entries in the cash register or other system, validating case papers to reflect payments, and issuing receipts.
• Maintains stat