Job Coach Vocational M-F Full Time

Job Description

Job Description

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to join our Vocational team without working nights, weekends, or holidays! Become our next Job Coach and support individuals with disabilities in achieving meaningful and valued roles in the community. We provide all needed training on-campus.

As a Job Coach Specialist, you'll play an essential role in enriching the lives of the individuals we support. Through fostering their social skills, promoting independence, and facilitating opportunities to be a part of the community, you'll contribute to their growth and fulfillment.

GENERAL SUMMARY

The Job Coach plays a pivotal role in supporting individuals with disabilities to achieve success in community employment settings. The primary responsibility of the Job Coach is to provide support and guidance, promote skill development, foster independence, and ensure the individual is successful in their workplace.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS *

• Provides supervision to individuals in specific jobs according to employer specifications. May provide training to enhance quality of work product.
• Provide supervision and job support by communicating regularly with supervisors at employment sites regarding individual’s progress and checking in regularly with the individual.
• Document progress towards employment plan objectives and report progress in the form of daily progress notes, monthly /quarterly progress reports and during team meetings.
• Develop and maintain accurate, up-to-date case records, service hours, and billing records. Meet established billing goals. Submit work culture report for all employed participants.
• Ensure the individual’s health, safety and general well-being at the work site.
• Fosters good working relationships with employers.
• Maintains record of issues and/or concerns at specific worksite and communicates needs to Employment Specialist and Program Director.
• Provides transportation for individuals to and from worksites if necessary, ensuring compliance with safety requirements.
• Implements and writes vocational assessments as it relates to industry standards.
• Attends all meetings, as requested.
• Fosters the maximum amount of individual independence, decreasing the level of support as specified in the individual’s plan.
• Serves as a role model to individuals supported in the agency.
• Adhere to all funding source regulations and Cape Abilities policies and procedures.
• Serves as mandated reporter for suspected cases of abuse and/or neglect to the Disabled Persons Protection Commission (DPPC).

OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Understands and implements Positive Behavioral Supports (PBS) Universal Supports strategies and techniques with the individuals.
• Provide transportation to participants, when necessary, in a personal vehicle or a designated agency vehicle when available.
• Performs additional duties, as assigned.

COMPETENCIES

• Vision and Purpose : Demonstrates a compelling and inspired vision or sense of core purpose; creates milestones to rally support behind the vision.
• Adaptability : Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events; manages competing demands; changes approach or method to best fit the situation; inspires others to be adaptable to change.
• Ethics, Values and Diversity : Promotes an appropriate and effective work environment and strives to ensure that the agency’s core values and beliefs are applied during all circumstances; genuinely cares about people; deals effectively with all races, nationalities, cultures, disabilities, ages, lifestyle choices and genders; supports equal and fair treatment and opportunity for all; adheres to and promotes the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA); advocates for the rights and interests of individuals with disabilities to maximize their potential in the programs and communities of their choice.
• Integrity and Trust : Is respectful, truthful, and transparent; keeps confidences; takes ownership and responsibility for decisions and outcomes.
• Problem Solving and Judgment : Probes all useful and constructive sources to find pertinent answers; can analyze issues, identify problems and work toward appropriate solutions; collaborates with others or as part of a team; displays willingness to make decisions; makes timely decisions; exhibits sound and accurate judgment.
• Oral and Written Communications : Speaks clearly, appropriately and effectively with a diverse group of individuals; is an active listener and gets clarification when necessary; participates constructively in meetings; is able to write clearly and succinctly; is able to communicate clearly in a variety of settings and situations.

PREPARATION, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

• High school diploma. Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Prior experience working with individuals with disabilities in community based employment settings.
• Valid driver’s license in the state of Massachusetts.
• Ability to model and teach occupational tasks.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY

• No supervisory responsibility.

WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Normal working conditions.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to do this job. The above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required.

*External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act must be able to perform the essential job functions (as listed) either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined by management on a case by case basis.

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