Impact-Driven Vocational Support Specialist

Helping-Celebrate-Abilities; Village of Endicott (NY); On-site; USD 25,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

Generous paid time off

Retirement plan with company matching

Telehealth/concierge medicine

FSA

HSA

Life insurance

Long-term disability insurance

Short-term disability insurance

Critical illness/specified disease

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Helping-Celebrate-Abilities in the Village of Endicott, NY, is hiring a Full-Time Support Specialist to help individuals achieve vocational goals and maintain clear communication with supervisors about work plans.

You will provide orientation, training, supervision, and follow-along services at the work site, while building cooperative relationships with host company staff and families to ensure smooth service delivery.

Qualifications

• High School / GED with a minimum of 2-4 years experience working with the developmentally disabled population.
• Combination of education and experience that meets or exceeds the standards of the program.

Responsibilities

• Provide necessary orientation, training, supervision, and follow along services to assigned individuals at the work site. Implement treatment according to defined program objectives.
• Maintain cooperative working relationships with host company employees, referral agency representatives and all other personnel including the consumer and family to assure the necessary integration and coordination of service delivery to individuals.
• Responsible for training individuals to perform assigned work to best of their ability. Familiarizes individuals with their new work environment.
• Assist individuals in learning other new tasks such as organization, time management, professionalism and interpersonal relations.
• Help individuals work through issues that may arise on the job by using creative problem-solving.
• Assist the Supported Employment individual to maintain employment stability.
• Submit documentation of all services provided for the month for billing purposes in a timely manner.
• Maintains a thorough working knowledge of and adheres to organization policies and procedures.
• Timely and accurate documentation as required by Quality and Fiscal Standards.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Advocacy

Problem-solving

Negotiation

Initiative

Creativity

Organizational ability

Multitasking

Excel

Outlook

Word

Internet Explorer

Windows OS

Education

High School / GED

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Word

Windows Operating System

Job description

Helping-Celebrate-Abilities in the Village of Endicott, NY, is hiring a Full-Time Support Specialist to help individuals achieve vocational goals and maintain clear communication with supervisors about work plans.

You will provide orientation, training, supervision, and follow-along services at the work site, while building cooperative relationships with host company staff and families to ensure smooth service delivery.