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Employment Specialist - Supported Employment

Brooklyn Community Services
Brooklyn, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 3/10/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/10/2025

Position: Employment Specialist - SEMP-OPWDD

Reports to: Director of Supported Employment

Hours: Full time - 35 hours per week Must have ability to work occasional evening and weekends depending on client’s employment schedule, and travel within NYC as required.

Salary: $45,000 - $45,000

Position Summary:

Brooklyn Community Services is one of Brooklyn’s first and largest non-sectarian social services agencies. BCS, which presently serves more than 20,000 individuals annually, is committed to a broad and diverse range of services including education and child care; services to strengthen families; and services to foster self sufficiency for adults.

The SEMP Employment Specialist provides the supports that individuals with disabilities need to obtain and maintain internships and paid competitive employment in the community.

Responsibilities:

  • Assist individuals with disabilities find and retain internships and paid competitive employment.

  • Provide post-employment job coaching at the work site.

  • Develop positive working relationships with employers. Directly assist employers in communicating with individuals, to clarify job duties, provide safety information, and facilitate productivity, client motivation, and client attendance.

  • Provide job coaching and proactive, extended support services to an assigned caseload of clients, both at and away from the job site, to assist them in remaining employed in the integrated labor market.

  • Accompany clients to Monthly Job Readiness Trainings and complete Observational and Situational Assessments for clients at various sites.

  • Provide individuals with travel training, counseling, case management, and other supportive services needed to maintain employment.

  • Provide full-cycle career services (intake, discovery, job development and placement, ongoing support for job retention and coaching) to ACCES-VR and OPWDD participants.

  • Advocate for clients’ possible need for accommodation at work site as well as off-site advocacy needs.

  • Assist individuals who have lost their jobs to return to employment by re-evaluating their employment goals, needs, and interests, and by assisting them with applications and interviews.

  • Complete and submit required chart documentation, monthly reports, Discovery reports and Status Updates to OPWDD in a timely manner.

  • Attend Life Plan meetings with Care Managers and keep in close contact with clients service providers

  • Other tasks as assigned

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree and experience in providing services to individuals with disabilities

  • Ability to interface effectively with staff across programs and community agencies

  • Knowledge of the local job market

  • Excellent judgment and sensitivity to the needs of clients

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills

  • OCFS/DOH

BCS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities.

Salary : $45,000

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