Individual Service Coordinator

YAI - Seeing beyond disability; Coram (NY); On-site; USD 23,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

YAI - Seeing beyond disability is recruiting a Full Time Individual Service Coordinator (ISC) to support Day Programs on Long Island. The ISC coordinates cases and advocates between program staff, families, residences, and care managers.

The role involves managing a 50-70 person caseload, careful documentation, and collaboration with a multidisciplinary team. Experience with intellectual and developmental disabilities is preferred, with a BA commonly required.

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal and communication abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize.
• Comfort communicating with families and residences.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of 50-70 PWS.
• Input services and meeting minutes into Evero.
• Take notes in meetings and liaise with families/residences.
• Maintain records per OPWDD regulations.
• Assist with audits and data management.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Presentation skills

Initiative

Education

BA preferred

Tools

Evero

Job description

Program Coram Day Hab Brentwood WAVE Westbury Location Coram - 217 Middle Country Road Westbury - 475 Union Ave Brentwood NY - 555 Washington Ave Schedule (Full time, Weekday) Monday - Friday; 9:00am - 5:00pm

YAI has an opening for a Full Time Individual Service Coordinator (ISC) to work within our Day Programs on Long Island. The Individual Service Coordinator (ISC) at YAI provides case coordination for the people we support as an advocate for our individuals between program, families, residences, and care managers.

Job responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of 50-70 PWS
• Input services and meeting minutes into Evero
• Taking notes in meetings
• Able to communicate with challenging families/residences
• Understanding of clinical needs of PWS
• Liaison between families/residences/care managers
• Maintain records in accordance with OPWDD regulations
• Assist with Audits
• Entering and Manage databases of PWS
• Provide coverage to the people we support base on programs needs
• Education and Experience BA preferred
• Experience working with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and advocating for their needs/desires.

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Exceptional interpersonal, problem solving, organizational, Presentation and communication skills
• Willing to take initiative
• Highly flexible personality type
• Able to deal with challenging families/residences
• Understanding of person-centered philosophy
• Knowledge of Evero
• Work in Team Environment

Compensation $19.05 / Hour

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or status as a Vietnam or disabled veteran.

YAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

To ensure fairness, safeguard transparency, and promote an equitable workforce environment, YAI Network prohibits the practice of nepotism in the workforce and hiring process.

Our Roots

Our Roots YAI was launched in February of 1957 out of a small school in Brooklyn, New York. Initially staffed by Co-Founders Bert MacLeech and Pearl Maze MacLeech alone, their pilot program served just seven people. According to Bert, from its very beginning YAI has been dedicated to providing innovative services for the I/DD (intellectual and/or developmental disabilities) community.

YAI Today Today,

YAI has a team of over 4,000 employees and supports over 20,000 people in the I/DD community. This extraordinary growth shows the ongoing need for these important services, and YAI’s success in offering them. YAI supports people with autism, Down syndrome, and Cerebral Palsy, among others. Operating throughout Downstate New York and Northern New Jersey, YAI now offers more than 300 programs for people of all ages.

Better Together

At YAI, we are driven by our mission of living, loving, working, and learning. This applies not only to the people we support, but to our staff as well. Commitment and passion for the work continue to unite employees and drive the organization forward. Empowering the people we support to reach their goals remains at the heart of our organization.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or status as a Vietnam or disabled veteran.

YAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

To ensure fairness, safeguard transparency, and promote an equitable workforce environment, YAI Network prohibits the practice of nepotism in the workforce and hiring process.

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