Location: Mount Vernon, NY

Hours: 35 hours a week (full-time)

Responsibilities:

• Support a high-performing culture aligned with TGCW core values and B.A.S.I.C Tenets: Balance, Accountability, Satisfaction, Inclusion, and Communication.
• Provide recovery based service coordination for caseload of participants who have vocational and educational goals.
• Teach participants to create resumes, review interviewing skills and provide coaching to increase soft work skills.
• Assist participants gain employment by searching for appropriate job leads, filling out online job applications, contacting local employers and attending job fairs.
• Provide ongoing job support services in the community to help participants keep their job.
• Provide crisis intervention services.
• Develop syllabi and lesson plans for, and facilitate/teach, PROS vocational and educational related classes.
• Cover classes as needed.
• Engage in weekly appointments with participants.
• Conduct required vocational assessments.
• Complete case notes, Ticket to Work paperwork and other documentation as needed.
• Utilize an Individualized Placement Support evidence-based model to assist with obtaining employment.
• Complete IPS monthly reports.
• Assist participants to complete ACCES-VR applications and follow up on status.
• Work in collaboration with the Vocational Services Department to co-enrolled participants reach their vocational goals.
• Attend/participate in staff meetings and trainings.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in related field. 1 year of vocational counseling experience required. Knowledge of evidence based approaches. Driver’s license required.

Travel Requirements: Generally, around 40%

Physical Requirements: 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.

While performing the responsibilities of the role, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use his or her hands and fingers to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Vision abilities required by this job include close vision. Ability to sit for prolonged periods of time at desk. Ability to drive car and van and to travel into the community.

Access: Supports For Living is an EEO employer-EEO, AAE, M/F/D/V

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