Emergency Department Personnel Assistant

County of Los Angeles; Commerce (CA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

County of Los Angeles is conducting an open competitive-emergency examination for the position of Departmental Personnel Assistant. The exam number is b1842A-EA. Filing starts Aug 19, 2025, at 8:00 a.m.

(PT), and the process may extend without notice. Initial employment may be up to 90 days with potential for permanent status based on performance. The incumbent will handle clerical personnel work, maintain records, compile reports, manage recruitment information, and assist in payroll and salary

Qualifications

• One year of experience in a highly specialized capacity assisting in technical personnel work in a central personnel office.
• One year of payroll experience at the level of Payroll Clerk I.
• You MUST meet the above requirement(s) in order to be appointed to fill any vacancies related to this recruitment.

Responsibilities

• Maintains personnel files and records of individual employees, including work history, vacations, leaves of absence, probation reports, performance evaluations, appraisals of promotability, status changes, and disciplinary actions.
• Maintains a system of item control as a check on the number of allocated positions and the status of each; prepares requests for approval of deviations such as frozen or borrowed positions.
• Compiles periodic statistical reports providing management with information such as turnover, vacancies, total number employed, and budget needs.
• Disseminates information concerning recruitment needs to various agencies and organizations.
• Obtains eligible lists, certifications, examination results, medical records, and other information pertaining to the recruitment, testing and selection of applicants.
• Interprets salary provisions of the County Code to determine the salary rate applicable in a given set of circumstances, considering factors such as Y-rates, advanced step recruitment, superior-subordinate pay, shift differentials, bonuses, hazard pay, and furnishes necessary data to the payroll section.
• Provides information to applicants, explains Civil Service procedure, evaluates applications, clarifies questionable or inadequate information, and attempts to resolve problems affecting eligibility.
• Assists in securing special examiners and interviewers.
• Conduct initial interviews of eligible candidates and recommend them for employment.
• Conducts preliminary investigations in situations involving police records, proposed disciplinary action, employee grievances, etc.
• Provides information to employees concerning their rights, benefits and responsibilities, departmental policies and regulations, Civil Service Rules, and the County Code; may conduct orientation of new employees.
• Supervise a small clerical staff in the personnel office.

Job description

County of Los Angeles is conducting an open competitive-emergency examination for the position of Departmental Personnel Assistant. The exam number is b1842A-EA. Filing starts Aug 19, 2025, at 8:00 a.m.

(PT), and the process may extend without notice. Initial employment may be up to 90 days with potential for permanent status based on performance. The incumbent will handle clerical personnel work, maintain records, compile reports, manage recruitment information, and assist in payroll and salary