Training and Development Specialist

Job Title

REM Community Services, a part of the Sevita family, provides community-based services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Here we believe every person has the right to live well, and everyone deserves to have a fulfilling career. You'll join a mission-driven team and create relationships that motivate us all every day. Join us today, and experience a career well lived.

Our Mission And Performance Expectations

The MENTOR Network is a mission-based organization dedicated to providing high-quality services to those we serve. Therefore, to deliver on our mission, The Network expects every employee to perform his or her job first and foremost in accordance with the Company's mission.

Summary

Facilitates training programs that supports field operations, including orientation programs. Does not design or develop training programs.

Essential Job Functions

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential function listed below:

• Develops and maintains course curriculum.
• Confers with management and staff to identify specific skill/knowledge gaps, training objectives, work situations and changes in policies and procedures.
• Designs, creates and updates training aids, such as manuals, handouts, course exercises and visual aids.
• Delivers instruction using multiple modalities including but not limited to: one-on-one, classroom, teleconferencing, web-based training, and computer-based training.
• Confers with management, internal training consultants and HR to identify additional training needs, as required for new staff.
• Ensures ongoing feedback of training programs and modifies programs as needed.
• Prepares and facilitates client-specific and clinical type training in addition to new hire orientation, CPR and medical administration.
• Provides input regarding the formulation and modification of procedures and practices pertaining to agency training.
• Maintains current knowledge of organizational and industrial trends and makes appropriate recommendations for new or updated training programs.
• Performs other related duties and activities as required.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None Required

Minimum Knowledge And Skills Required By The Job

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilities required to perform the job:

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree required
• One year of related experience preferred
• An equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed above may be substituted for the above education and experience requirements

Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations:

• Current CPR Instructor/First Aid Certification as required by state.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• N/A

Other Requirements:

• Travel as needed

Physical Requirements:

• Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Americans With Disabilities Act Statement

External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled, must be able to perform the essential job functions either unaided or with assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined on a case by case basis via the interactive process.

Sevita is a leading provider of home and community-based specialized health care. We believe that everyone deserves to live a full, more independent life. We provide people with quality services and individualized supports that lead to growth and independence, regardless of the physical, intellectual, or behavioral challenges they face. We've made this our mission for more than 50 years. And today, our 40,000 team members continue to innovate and enhance care for the 50,000 individuals we serve all over the U.S.

As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.