ROUTE DRIVER/JOB COACH

Home of Hope; Vinita (OK); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Home of Hope in Oklahoma seeks a dedicated professional to build employment opportunities for clients and to facilitate placement and retention in vocational settings.

You will counsel clients to obtain and sustain social services, advocate for client needs, and coordinate with employers to ensure job training and support are available. This position emphasizes client-centered care and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Education: High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Experience: 6 months of route driving in a service-oriented setting.
• Skills: strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication; basic math; proficient with office equipment.
• Ability: organize tasks and records; good judgment; willing to travel intrastate with possible overnight stay.
• Licenses: valid driver's license, current auto insurance, reliable transportation; able to operate vehicle day/night.
• First Aid/CPR Training required.
• Pre-employment drug screen required; subject to random/post-accident/causes drug screens.
• Willing to work schedules based on client needs and overtime.
• Learn and follow Individual Plan (IP) of clients.

Responsibilities

• Review and coordinate or provide necessary services for client to achieve social and vocational integration.
• Develop client-specific jobs by matching skills to occupations and solicit employers.
• Assist employers with training issues and arrange for adaptive devices or mentoring as needed.
• Develop natural supports on and off the job and facilitate transportation or other resources.
• Complete documentation to support billing, including job success plans and assessments.
• Interpret and implement contracts and stay current with regulatory developments.
• Assist client in achieving maximum potential and self-determination.
• Assist Retail Manager with daily scheduling and communication during manager absence.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Basic math

Office equipment

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Job description

Description

JOB SUMMARY:

Develop business relationships so that employment opportunities are available for clients. Facilitate the placement and retention of clients in the vocational environment. Counsel and aid the client is obtaining and sustaining social services. Advocate on behalf of the client.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

1. Review, determine and coordinate or provide necessary services for client so that social/Vocational integration occurs. Actions may include interviewing and evaluating services needed based on client’s profile, formulating treatment plans and goals, arranging for or personally carrying out treatment plans and assisting client in obtaining services.
2. Develop client specific jobs by matching client skill, knowledge and abilities to complementary career paths. Research and solicit employers possessing such occupations to hire clients.
3. Assist employers with training issues to ensure the client receives appropriate job knowledge and skills training. Determine, suggest and/ or arrange for adaptive devices, mentoring or other necessary instructive to complement job training or career development
4. Develop and utilize natural supports, both on and off the job, to secure vocational success. Source out, implement or facilitate a sustaining transportation system, human support/network system or other reference sources to nurture client socialization.
5. Complete all documentation necessary to support billing of services, following regulatory or HOH instructions. Documents include formulating job success plans, conducting/reviewing situational assessments, performing benefits analysis and disciplinary analysis.
6. Interpret and implement existing DRS and HOH contracts and performance requirements. Keep current with regulatory developments and trends.
7. Assist client in achieving maximum potential and self determination.
8. Assist Retail Manager in setting up the daily schedule.
9. In the Retail Managers absence, communicate with second driver the daily schedule.

CORE VALUES:

• Client Centered Care: We are committed to making all decisions and performing all actions with the well-being of our clients as our primary focus, and to always putting our clients’ interests ahead of our own.
• Accountability: We take personal responsibility, as an organization and as individuals, for our actions, hold each other accountable, and expect to be held accountable at any point throughout the year for our decisions and actions.
• Respect: While keeping the focus on the needs of our clients, we also commit to demonstrating mutual respect in communication and actions so that a positive environment for everyone is maintained.
• Excellence: We are committed to using established best practices, to evaluating effectiveness of our efforts, and to demonstrating a willingness to change current practices at any point based on evidence that change is needed

Requirements

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

1. Education: Minimum of High School Diploma or equivalency
2. Experience: 6 months’ route driving experience and in service oriented environment ideally in a job development capacity.
3. Skills: above average interpersonal, verbal and written communications; basic math; proficiency in using office equipment that includes copier, fax, calculator, and telephone system.
4. Ability: to organize tasks, record and produce accurate work; to exercise sound judgment; periodic travel to various intrastate sites (which may involve over night stay).
5. Valid driver’s license; current automotive insurance; dependable transportation; availability to operate vehicle during day/night
6. First Aid/CPR Training (Required). This will include all aspects of completion with compressions on the floor or ground.
7. Required pre-employment drug screen and subject to random, post-accident and reasonable cause drug screens.
8. Willing to work schedules based on individual client needs and overtime as required.
9. Expected to learn and follow the Individual Plan (IP) of clients.

10.Criminal Background free of encumbrances identified by the State of Oklahoma Health Department.

11.Valid driver’s license; current automotive insurance; dependable transportation.

PHYSICAL/MENTAL:

1. Office or industrial environment; lifting minimum of 50 pounds up to 150 pounds;
2. Ability to operate a motor vehicle up to 75% of the time;
3. Ability to work outdoors in different types of extreme weather environments;
4. Comprehension and deductive reasoning;
5. Responsive to visual stimuli;
6. Reliable motor skills-use of hands and feet; motor coordination;
7. Ability to sit, stoop, walk or stand for prolonged periods of time;
8. Ability to understand oral and written instructions.
9. Must have good written and oral communication skills.

10.Must be mentally and physically capable to perform the duties of the position.

TRAINING REQUIREMENTS:

Medic First Aid Class

Lifting Class

Defensive Driving Class

Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Class

Specialized individual client training

Foundations, Effective Teaching Course, Behavioral Support for DSP, Employment Training

Specialist I, General Employment Training, Employment Training Specialist Orientation I Lesson 3

(Online Training)