Join a team of dedicated professionals in the Polk County Clerk of Courts office.
The Clerk’s office has been recognized as a Best Places to Work—an award given by CareerSource Polk that is based on employee surveys and an evaluation by judges.
The Clerk of Courts provides a very rich benefit plan which includes membership in the Florida Retirement System, health insurance, an employee wellness center, and an employee gym.
There’s also a paid time off plan in which one can accrue twenty-two days of leave time in the first year of employment.
Essential Attributes:
- The Mission of the Clerk of Courts has a high degree of public accountability, regular attendance and punctuality is an essential function of this position.
- Support and comply with the Mission Statement and Code of Conduct of the Clerk of Courts.
- Maintain a high standard relating to professional conduct and behavior.
- Work cooperatively with other employees of the work unit and embrace a teamwork approach to completing tasks.
Essential Tasks:
- Provide accurate and professional customer service to Family Law customers, including those seeking Injunctions for Protection.
Team members may rotate between Family Law and Domestic Violence counters.
- Process new and reopened Family Law and Injunction for Protection cases.
- Answer multi-line incoming telephone calls systematically and professionally.
- Furnish information to customers, both in person and telephonically without giving legal advice.
- Sell and explain Family Law self-help packets.
- Assist in the Domestic Violence DIY room.
- Timely and accurately send up emergency motions to the appropriate Judge.
- Assist customers by providing information on the various types of Injunction for Protection cases.
- Prepare, deliver and explain injunction packets to customers.
Provide information and referral services to victims.
- Perform data input to build or reopen cases in the New Vision system.
Scan and Index pleadings.
- Issue summons, subpoenas and notices of action.
Process and certify copy requests.
- May serve as backup clerk for injunction hearings.
- Perform cashiering duties such as: collection of monies, posting monies to appropriate case, balancing funds and reports daily.
- Overtime may be required.
- All other duties as assigned.
Minimum Skills/Qualifications:
- Ability to acquire or have knowledge of current procedures to accomplish tasks within areas of responsibility of department’s overall operation and workflow.
- Ability to organize, prioritize and manage work to meet necessary time requirements and work load.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
- Ability to speak effectively to customers or employees of the organization and read and write English.
- Ability to operate a PC and/or mainframe and related software applications.
- Ability to compute ratio, percent and draw and interpret bar graphs.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
- Graduate of an accredited high school or possess an acceptable equivalency diploma.
- Ability to accurately type a minimum of 35 wpm.
- Being able to work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- Six months related job experience and/or training is preferred.
Physical Retirements: :
- Applicant must have the physical, developmental and mental ability to perform job tasks, work efforts, responsibilities and duties of the job illustrated above.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel; and talk or hear.
The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, climb or balance.
The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust to focus.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
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Hiring rate: $15.
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