Employment Support Professional

00 RHA Health Services, LLC; Concord (NC); Vor Ort; USD 35.000 - 52.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

00 RHA Health Services, LLC is seeking an Employment Support Professional to help individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, mental health, and substance use challenges obtain employment and receive ongoing supports. The role emphasizes a clinical team approach, privacy awareness, and client self-advocacy.

The position requires energy, organization, and experience in employment preparation, unsubsidized job development, and post-placement follow-up across diverse settings.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree preferred; minimum 2 years' experience in recruiting and job placement.
• Knowledge of disabilities, privacy laws, and consumer rights.
• Ability to communicate effectively with clients and staff.

Aufgaben

• Clinical team integration with Employment Support Professionals as members of a clinical team.
• Assist clients in deciding whether to disclose their disability to an employer and promote self-determination.
• Provide support for vocational assessment, job development, training, and follow-up.
• Review and organize documents and reports including time studies and performance ratings.
• Establish a job matrix to support employment interests and engage clients.
• Provide ongoing individual support and encouragement to clients.
• Match job seekers with employers using job placement skills.
• Provide follow-along supports and on-site job coaching to ensure client success.
• Develop client employment goals and job support plans.
• Maintain accurate documentation for billing, assessment and treatment progress.
• Observe clients in multiple settings to ensure policy compliance.

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in human services

Minimum 2 years' experience in recruiting and job placement

Experience with disabilities, mental health, and privacy laws

Jobbeschreibung

Employment Support Professional Type:

Regular

If you are a positive and personable individual looking for a satisfying and fun opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of people with intellectual, developmental disabilities, and people facing mental health, and substance use challenges, join our team at RHA Health Services!

This position requires an energetic and organized person with proven knowledge, skills, and abilities in achieving quantitative placement goals, knowledge and experience preparing clients for employment, developing unsubsidized jobs with private and public employers, placing clients into jobs, and providing follow-up support services to assure job retention. Must demonstrate and apply knowledge about disabilities, including disability and privacy laws. Ability to communicate effectively with clients and staff, exhibit effective customer service skills, promote client self-advocacy skills and counseling skills. This position provides and coordinates a wide range of supportive employment services. The program's practice model is based on the Individual Supportive Employment with Long-Term Vocational Supports as defined by the Department of Justice. Assist adults with a wide range of mental health issues and conditions in obtaining employment.

Job Summary

This position requires an energetic and organized person with proven knowledge, skills and abilities in achieving quantitative placement goals, knowledge and experience preparing clients for employment, developing unsubsidized jobs with private and public employers, placing clients into jobs, and providing follow-up support services to assure job retention. Must demonstrate and apply knowledge about disabilities, including disability and privacy laws. Ability to communicate effectively with clients and staff, exhibit effective customer service skills, promote client self-advocacy skills and counseling skills. This position provides and coordinates a wide range of supportive employment services. The program's practice model is based on the Individual Supportive Employment with Long-Term Vocational Supports as defined by the Department of Justice. Assist adults with a wide range of mental health issues and conditions in obtaining employment.

Education/Experience/Certifications/Licenses/Physical Demands

Prefer a Bachelor's Degree in a human services field from an accredited college or university and at least 1 year of experience working with intellectually developmentally disabled persons, mental health, substance abuse,, or a Minimum of 2 years' experience in recruiting and job placement, or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Applicant must be able to pass a pre-employment drug-screening exam, and possess a valid Driver's License.

Education, Licensure, and Experience required for the position include: Bachelor's degree preferred. Minimum of 2 years' experience in recruiting and job placement.

Responsibilities

• Clinical team integration (with Employment Support Professionals as members of a clinical team); participate in ongoing collaboration with client's treatment team for clinical consultation, employment plan or for the development of behavioral health support services.
• Assist clients in making the decision as to whether they will disclose their disability to an employer, ensuring that individuals have all necessary information available on the potential ramifications of their choices, and promoting their preferences and self-determination.
• Provide support for individuals in a variety of ways such as vocational assessment, job development, training, technical assistance, monitoring safety conditions, transportation and follow - along support.
• Receive, review, process, file and/or submit a variety of documents and reports and electronic files on client's including time studies, performance ratings, time sheets, data sheets, production sheets, professional contact sheets, accident reports, client satisfaction surveys, etc.
• Establish a job matrix (accounts) to support employment interest expressed by clients served. Engage clients and assist them in identifying areas of employment interest.
• Provide ongoing individual support and encouragement to clients.
• Match job seeking clients and employers using a variety of professional job placement and job development skills.
• Provide follow along supports and retention services including on site job coaching to ensure client success and employer satisfaction.
• Provide ongoing client vocational assessment, developing client employment goals and job support plans.
• Maintain accurate, clinically sound, and up-to-date documentation as required associated with billing, assessment, treatment, person's progress, clinical team and other activities.
• Completes observations of service users in all of their settings, (i.e. school, home, community, etc.) to ensure that all policies, procedures, and program data are in place and being implemented correctly.