Supportive Employment Specialist

Job Details

Job Location: Hunt Place CSA - Washington, DC 20019
Salary Range: $40,000.00 - $44,000.00

Are you passionate about helping individuals overcome barriers and build pathways toward meaningful employment and independence? As an Employment Specialist, you will play a vital role in empowering individuals receiving behavioral health services by providing vocational support, job development, employment coaching, and community-based services. Working alongside an integrated clinical team, you will help consumers identify career goals, connect with opportunities, and build the skills needed for long-term success.

If you are driven by community impact, workforce development, and helping individuals achieve meaningful change through employment, we encourage you to apply and become part of a team committed to empowering lives through opportunity and support.

Responsibilities

• Maintain confidentiality of records relating to consumer information
• Administrative duties: answering the phone, typing, etc.
• Develop, implement and monitor Individual Service Plans (IEP)
• Develop appropriate employment opportunities in the community; identify and develop job sites based on individual needs, abilities and preferences
• Perform situational assessments and vocational explorations; observe and document consumers’ vocational assets and limitations, ability to engage in competitive employment, need for and ability to benefit from supported employment, including natural supports
• Document and monitor progress and attendance to ensure goals of the IEP are appropriate
• Exercise administrative judgment and assume responsibility for decisions, consequences and results affecting people, costs and/or quality of service within the functional area
• Coordinate and communicate with referral sources, community agencies and providers
• Assist consumers with job-seeking skills, interview techniques, resume preparation and development of competitive worker characteristics
• Provide vocational instruction and assistance at consumers’ worksites, and develop primary worker characteristics and appropriate social skills
• Write timely and accurate assessment reports, progress reports and program reviews; document all services and maintain current computer case management and program notes; complete all paperwork timely
• Maintain all consumer files and maintain HIPAA compliance for privacy while ensuring best practices, including access to consumer’s Protected Health Information (PHI)
• Provide feedback and elicit input from consumers, family members, significant others, counselors and employment services team; empower consumers and their advocates, families and designated others to participate actively in planning and carrying out program plans
• Assist consumers in accessing all resources and benefits available to them, including financial, counseling and housing programs
• Maintain and submit monthly attendance sheets and other relevant materials such as placement reports, master lists, change of status, etc. to the Program Manager in a timely fashion
• Provide transportation to and from worksites as needed
• Participate in staff meetings, in-service training and staff development programs, professional meetings, conferences and related programs as requested
• Perform all other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's or Master’s degree in social work or another human service related field
• Key Competencies: Microsoft Word, Lotus, Excel
• Physical Requirements: Able to lift at least fifty pounds (50)