What are the responsibilities and job description for the Career Coach position at Access: Supports for Living?
Our dedicated front line staff are out in the field making it happen on a daily basis. Our administration staff play a key role in supporting our frontline staff by giving them the resources and tools they need to be successful. Whether Finance, HR, IT, or Quality Assurance is your game, you’ll be supporting our agency to be able to provide the best programs and services possible. You’ll get to work in a supportive, creative culture with many benefits.
Location: Middletown, NY
Hours: Mon-Fri Days (Flexibility needed for days and hours according to Client's schedules)
Rate: $19/hr Benefits, Generous PTO, and Tuition Assistance
Overview Of Primary Responsibilites
This position provides individuals with disabilities with skills training, planning, and advocacy services for all aspects of the employment process in relation to their job.
Primary Functions
In this role you will:
These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to perform the job's essential functions successfully. Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the described essential functions of the position, which are reviewed in each case.
Access: Network is an EEO employer
Location: Middletown, NY
Hours: Mon-Fri Days (Flexibility needed for days and hours according to Client's schedules)
Rate: $19/hr Benefits, Generous PTO, and Tuition Assistance
Overview Of Primary Responsibilites
This position provides individuals with disabilities with skills training, planning, and advocacy services for all aspects of the employment process in relation to their job.
Primary Functions
In this role you will:
- Coordinate efforts with other integral parties as deemed appropriate including families, schools, and other service providers
- Supervise the work abilities and performance of the individual and their work setting
- Assess the strengths and needs of individuals in relation to their performance and job setting
- Develop and implement on-the-job training techniques for the individual at the work site
- Design strategies appropriate to assist the individual to make progress in their placement in terms of productivity, interpersonal skills, quality of work, and behaviors
- Aid individuals in obtaining needed support services
- Provide follow-up and job retention counseling services
- Monitor the individual’s progress on the job and provide intervention and support to maintain employment
- Work-site assistance, relationship building and management
- Assist with job development activities such as visiting potential job sites and attending interviews
- Provide employers with crisis and technical assistance
- Complete necessary and required documentation for all needed aspects of the program
- Provide needed advocacy to personally represent the individuals in discussion with benefits retention, and other areas as needed
- Other duties as assigned
- High School Diploma and experience working with disabled, economically disadvantaged or students OR
- Associates Degree in Human Services or related field preferred and background working with disabled, economically disadvantaged or students
- Bilingual English and Spanish speaking a plus
These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to perform the job's essential functions successfully. Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the described essential functions of the position, which are reviewed in each case.
- Must be capable to access all rooms in a 2-story home
- Able to work in open space floor plan
- Must be capable to move throughout work day
- Occasional lifting of > _25 pounds
Access: Network is an EEO employer
Salary : $19