Therapeutic Coach

YAI - Seeing beyond disability; Eureka (MO); On-site; USD 43,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

The START Therapeutic Coach provides support to persons with co-occurring developmental disabilities and mental health needs in home or community settings, delivering daily and crisis interventions with a positive, person-centered approach.

Coaches collaborate with coordinators and family members to teach and guide caregivers and staff, helping to stabilize crises and reduce challenging behaviors while promoting independence and dignity.

Qualifications

• BA or BS in Human Services is required.
• Driver's License is strongly encouraged.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work cooperatively in a small team.
• Ability to assess priorities and manage deadlines in a fast-changing environment.
• Participate in the creation, organization and operation of therapeutic activities.
• Maintain recreational supplies and schedule use as necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide home and community-based therapeutic interventions to mitigate crises.
• Communicate interventions to primary caregivers for de-escalation.
• Train and guide family members and staff in effective teaching methods.
• Collaborate with providers and crisis services to support stabilization.

Skills

Oral and written communication

Team collaboration

Prioritization & deadline management

Therapeutic activities facilitation

Recreation supplies management

Education

BA or BS in Human Services

Job description

Pay Range: $31.25 - $31.25 Hourly

The START Therapeutic Coach provides support to persons with co-occurring developmental disabilities and mental or behavioral health needs and their family/primary caregivers/residence services who are temporarily accessing crisis or planned therapeutic services with START. Coaches work within the home environment or other community settings to create and implement daily and crisis therapeutic interventions and communicate these interventions with primary caregivers to focus on crisis mitigation and the implementation of strategies to assist in the de-escalation of behaviors using a positive psychology and person-centered approach. Coaches will work with coordinators and current support systems to provide assistance on training and guiding family members and group home staff in effective teaching methods for people with disabilities. This position contributes to the overall crisis stabilization and prevention of the person and their family by providing hands-on assistance and education to families. The START Therapeutic Coach participates as part of comprehensive START services that collaborate with the person's primary provider and clinical home, community crisis services, family and others.

Requirements

• BA or BS in Human Services
• Driver's License is strongly encouraged
• Well-developed oral and written communication skills
• Proven ability to work cooperatively in a small team environment
• Ability to assess priorities and manage competing deadlines both autonomously and as a member of a team in a fast-changing environment
• Participate in the creation, organization, and operation of the therapeutic recreational activities
• Maintain recreational supplies; schedule use as necessary

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.

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

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. MacLeech envisioned a, “total life adjustment approach, emphasizing personal growth, social responsibility, employment goals, and the development of independence for the individual.” At a time when institutional living was the norm for people with I/DD, this vision was nothing short of revolutionary.

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.

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