Job Readiness Coach

Job Summary

With flexibility, creativeness, and commitment, the Job Readiness Coach is responsible for planning goal-centered activities designed to provide individuals with developmental disabilities a life of informed choice and possibilities. The Job Readiness Coach helps individuals explore vocational and educational opportunities based on their interests and goals as they determine the next step in their life adventure. Goals support their Person Centered Individual Support Plans (PCISP) while offering opportunity to improve and learn new skills.

This is a great opportunity for anyone who has been a teacher, teaching assistant, job coach/trainer or employment consultant and who is looking for a new way to serve those with IDD. This is a great opportunity to help someone start their career path with a job they are prepared for, will succeed at, and love.

Essential Functions

• Help implement the PCISP by providing active treatment that allows individuals served to achieve goals and experience new opportunities that assist them in identifying vocational strengths, skills, and areas of need.
• Maintain a system of evaluation and progress of the individual's performance against the goals as set forth in the PCISP through proper documentation in assigned tracking software.
• Develop and provide instructional training, both in-house or community-based, with assigned individuals, which may be in a group or one-to-one.
• Identify and develop relationships with businesses to provide individuals served opportunities for skill growth.
• Assist individuals served in identifying accommodations, adaptive equipment, or assistive technology that increases independence.
• Provide advocacy when the individual's preferences, needs, or talents are being neglected or overlooked.
• Address challenging behaviors proactively and respectfully and follow any behavior management plans in effect for specific individual.
• Provide transportation on community outings using agency transportation or personal vehicle.
• Develop and maintain a positive working relationship with community resources, co-workers, and all ADEC personnel.