ACT Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist

Job Description

$5,000 HIRING BONUS paid in installments: $2,500 after 6 months and $2,500 after 1 year!!

Base pay with the potential to receive additional compensation!!

*Meeting with consumers in community settings*

*Agency cars provided for any consumer transport*

On-call: $264.95/week with additional call out pay!!

Wesley Family Services offers the following benefits:

ALL EMPLOYEES:

• Tuition discounts - up to a 20% discount on tuition for certain degree programs at local partnering colleges
• Annual performance evaluations with pay increase eligibility
• Employee Assistance Program
• Free licensure supervision (minimum work hours may apply)
• WFS Wellness Center
• myStrength
• Discounted home, auto, and pet insurance

FULL TIME EMPLOYEES:

• 10 paid holidays + paid Celebration Day
• 15 paid time off days 1st year, 20 paid time off days 2nd year, continues to increase
• Tuition reimbursement for qualifying courses of up to $2,000 per semester or course ($6,000 per fiscal year maximum reimbursement)
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (effective the 1st of the month following 30 days of work)
• Two weeks paid parental leave
• Employer paid life insurance
• Employer paid short term and long term disability insurance

Job Purpose/Summary

The Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist I ACTT provides vocational rehabilitation services for a group of consumers with mental health diagnoses in the community. The incumbent develops and monitors the vocational plan for each assigned consumer and is responsible for the total programmatic direction of that consumer in the community. The position may assume some case management skills.

Minimum Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree in rehabilitation, counseling, or a related field.

Experience: 1 year of experience in a field related to rehabilitation or social services.

Licenses, Certifications & Clearances:

· Act 33/34 Clearances

· FBI Clearance

· Valid State of PA Class 1 Drivers License

· Access to properly insured motor vehicle for client transportation and fieldwork and a safe driving record

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

· Exhibits ethical business behavior and maintains confidentiality of information and compliance as required by WFS policy.

· Ability to exhibit cultural sensitivity and to contribute to a work environment where diversity is welcomed and supported.

· Commitment to supporting the Quality Whole Person Care® service philosophy and work-place culture.

· Commitment to empowering others to solve their own problems.

· Commitment to valuing a nurturing family as the ideal environment.

· Conviction about the capacity of people to grow and change.

· Ability to establish a respectful relationship with persons served to help them gain skills and confidence.

· Ability to work collaboratively with other personnel and/or service providers or professionals.

· Capacity to maintain a helping role and to intervene appropriately to meet service goals.

· Ability to set appropriate limits.

· Knowledge of common physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities.

· Knowledge of the principles and practices of vocational rehabilitation.

· Skills in gaining cooperation of consumers in various vocational programs.

· Some knowledge of counseling and teaching strategies.

· Ability to cooperate with program staff, other agencies, and the general public.

· Basic knowledge of first aid practices.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

· Gathers and reviews referral information. Completes assessment of job-related interests and abilities through education, work history, and on-the-job assessments in community-based jobs. Makes programmatic recommendations to committees (OVR programs, work adjustment programs, or community-based programs). Reviews consumers’ progress with committees at schedules intervals.

· Assesses the effect of consumer’s mental illness on employment, with identification of specific behaviors that interfere with the consumer’s work performance, and development of interventions to reduce or eliminate those behaviors and find effective job accommodations.

· Develops an Individual Service Plan (ISP) for each assigned consumer within 30 days, utilizing the vocational evaluation, work skills assessment, functional assessment, consumer input, and input from other service providers. Updates and modifies plan on a quarterly basis.

· Initiates and maintains consumer’s cumulative case records, including completion of intake history, program forms, progress reports, and ISPs.

· Interprets consumers’ assigned program to him/her. Meets with consumer to review progress and needs on at least a quarterly basis. Recommends modifications of the consumer’s program.

· Maintains liaison with representatives from sponsoring agencies to review consumer progress and coordinate additional services if needed.

· Prepares discharge plans and presents plan to the Admissions, Utilization Review Discharge (AURD) Committee. Makes appropriate referrals to other agencies and/or services if appropriate.

· Assesses consumer situation in the event of an emergency, arranges hospitalization, accompanies consumer to the hospital to provide information, and notifies involved family and/or other service providers.

· Supervises, plans, and assigns work activities of the program aides and program substitutes within the program. Ensures that appropriate training activities, ISPs, goals, and consumer schedules are completed.

· Attends seminars, workshops, and other professional developments. Arranges for appropriate in-service education and staff development experiences for program aides.

· Completes routine paperwork, such as Service Activity Logs (SAL), letters, reports, and forms required by the Community Treatment Team and other service providers.

· Engages in individual, supportive counseling to assist consumers in identifying and coping with mental health symptoms that may interfere with their work performance.

· On-the-job-related or work-related crisis intervention.

· Work-related supportive services, such as assistance with grooming and personal hygiene, securing of appropriate clothing, wake up calls, and transportation if needed.

· Maintains ongoing relationships with employers to facilitate the creation of work environments that would be conducive to the hiring of CTT/ACTT consumers who want to seek employment.

· Assists consumers in locating jobs that they’re interested in and makes the initial contact with the employer to arrange for any accommodations necessary or if requested by consumers.

· Addresses all issues of fraud waste and/or abuse as they arise and proactively looks for ways to prevent instances of fraud, waste, and abuse in the service delivery system and work systems of the agency as described in the agency Compliance Plan.

· The services provided by the Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist to consumers include the following core aspects of the Supported Employment model:

Engagement

How to Apply:

You can submit through LinkedIn, but also go to our website directly at: wfspa.org/careers

Quality Whole Person Care® is Wesley Family Services’ service philosophy that aims to enhance the clinical care provided to individuals served while also helping to strengthen the way we support one another as colleagues. WFS has embedded QWPC practices which emphasize every person has value in all aspects of services and work-place culture.

WFS is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policies for both current and prospective employees prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin (including limited English proficiency), age, sex assigned at birth, sexual orientation, transgender identity, gender transition, gender identity, gender expression, disability, military/veteran status, or any protected category prohibited by local, state, or federal law.