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About the Role
The Employment Specialist provides direct care and personal adjustment services for individuals participating in ACCES-VR authorized services. This includes job development, coaching, skills training, assessment, counseling, intervention, advocacy, and creating employer contacts. The role also involves case management, client documentation, and employer outreach to support participant employment.
Responsibilities
- Provides employment services to adults and students receiving ACCES-VR support services, including vocational training, intensive coaching, situational assessments, and referrals for job development and placement.
- Assists with orientating individuals to new environments such as job sites, assessment/internship sites, and job fairs.
- Ensures individuals are familiar with public transportation and assists in securing SCAT and ABLE ride.
- Ensures documentation meets quality and compliance thresholds and completes required documentation within mandated time frames.
- Effectively communicates and supports the organization’s mission, vision, and values.
- Communicates respectfully with all people, including those supported, supervisors, team members, and the community.
- Prevents, recognizes, and reports abuse toward the people supported.
- Adheres to the organization's Code of Ethics.
- Maintains confidentiality.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Communicates respectfully with all people, including those supported, supervisors, team members, and the community.
- Complies fully with FREE’s confidentiality policies.
- Meets all safety training requirements, adheres to safety policies, and reports unsafe conditions.
- Coordinates, supports, attends, and participates in all required events/meetings/reviews/committees.
- Meets all job requirements and stays in compliance.
- Adheres to FREE’s standard of ethical behavior as outlined in the Employee Handbook and Code of Conduct, as well as applicable laws and regulations.
Requirements
- Associates Degree Required; Bachelor’s Degree highly preferred.
- At least 6 months of relevant work experience required.
- Previous work experience with individuals with mental health diagnoses.
- NYS CASE Trainings must be up to date while providing services.
- Travel to site may be required.
- Valid driver’s license is required.
- Must be able to meet all the criteria to be a valid driver for the agency.
- Must be able to adhere to a flexible work schedule that may include early hours, evening hours, and weekends.
- Must have excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
- Employee is required to sit, walk and stand for prolonged periods of time (at least 8 hours).
- Employee is required to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing.
- Employee is required to operate standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, fax and filing cabinets.
- Employee is required to reach with hands and arms.
- Employee is required to bend, stoop, kneel, crouch or stand on a stool as needed.
- Employee is able to lift 50 pounds at a time.
- FREE will provide reasonable accommodations to allow employees to perform the essential functions of the position, provided such reasonable accommodations do not cause undue hardship on FREE.
Skills
- Job development
- Job coaching
- Skills training
- Assessment
- Counseling
- Intervention
- Advocacy
- Employer contacts
- Case management
- Client documentation
- Employer outreach
- Vocational training
- Intensive coaching
- Situational assessments
- Referrals
- Public Transportation knowledge
- Communication
- Organizational skills
- Interpersonal skills
Location
- In-person
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- At least 6 months of relevant work experience
Education Level
- Associates Degree
- Bachelor’s Degree
About the Company
- Family Residences and Essential Enterprises, Inc. (FREE) benefits and proudly supports more than 4,000 individuals with intellectual / developmental disabilities, mental illness and traumatic brain injury.
- It is the mission of FREE to support people of all abilities reach their full potential and thrive in their communities.
- FREE provides a diverse array of supports and services including: housing; recovery services; transition to work; employment; day, community and family services; respite; crisis services; education and after school support; specialty health services; and advocacy.
Equal Opportunity
- FREE is an equal opportunity employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other protected characteristic.
- In addition to federal law requirements, FREE complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in all of its locations.
- This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
- Family Residences and Essential Enterprises’ affirmative action efforts related to protected veterans and individuals with disabilities are set out and described in our affirmative action plan for protected veterans and individuals with a disability.
- If you have any questions or would like to view the affirmative action plan, please visit our website www.familyres.org