Van Driver- Cape May

If you want to make a living by making a difference, join Acenda as an

Acenda Integrated Health is recruiting for a Van Driver to support the Partial Care Program in Cape May, New Jersey.

As a non-profit organization, we are solely committed to our mission of moving lives forward. Acenda provides over 100 life-enhancing programs and services to individuals, families, and communities throughout New Jersey. By bringing together our bright teams, innovative services, and understanding, caring hearts, we as an organization are moving upward to move lives forward. We join together to provide a wide range of mental health, crisis services, parenting support, family-focused therapy, and residential programming.

Are you looking to build a career where you'll make a real impact in the lives of others? Your interest in mental health, human services, or related life experience is valuable to us! We welcome you to join our team of caring, passionate and motivated individuals as a Van Driver. Acenda's expert team helps each individual, family and community move forward in their journey towards health and happiness.

Program Overview: The Partial Care program assists individuals who have severe and persistent mental illness with developing the skills and support necessary to live, learn and work with the least amount of intervention from the behavioral health system. The Partial Care program offers comprehensive, individualized, and quality behavioral health treatment within a group setting, designed to promote maximum independence in the least restrictive setting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Performs a variety of routine tasks related to transporting clients to and from the program such as observing all traffic regulations, planning, scheduling and routing trips.
• Responsible for assisting in van maintenance, and providing supervision to the passengers to ensure a safe environment during transport.

Requirements:

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Must have and maintain a valid driver's license with an acceptable driving record
• Must be sensitive, flexible and responsive to gender, race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, religion, age, sexual orientation or any other special needs as reflected in the ability to communicate with staff and/or clients.
• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Must be able to talk, listen and speak clearly on the telephone
• Occasionally required to stand; walk, sit use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk to hear; taste or smell.

Additional Information:

• Hourly Rate: $15.13
• Bilingual Rate: An additional $1.50/hourly incentive added if Spanish proficient

We provide:

• Up to 5% 401k with a match
• Year-end performance bonuses
• CEU's and free training programs

Department/Program

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