Job Coach - SEMP

Job Description

Job Description

Goodwill Industries NYNJ

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Position Title : Job Coach Location : Multiple Boroughs

Reports To : Program Manager Cost Center :

Here at Goodwill, we support persons with Intellectual & developmental disabilities and neurodiversity (Autism Spectrum), with obtaining and maintaining a job in the community. The DSP-Job Coach is the person who directly works with and supports our individuals and their families in finding a job and career. We offer Full-Time employment with many benefits starting at $20 / hour (equivalent to $40,000 / Year)

General Purpose :

Manage a caseload by providing individual assistance and guidance to individuals with disabilities with the mission of assisting them with obtaining, training, and maintaining employment. The most prevalent disability group is Intellectual / Developmental Disability; others may include mental illness, visual impairment, mental illness, or other conditions and impairments.

Essential Functions :

• Maintain departmental billing efficiency standards
• Maintain accurate daily case notes, monthly summaries, SAP, and other necessary documentation promptly, on agencies' Electronic Health Record Platform (EHR)
• Site visits with participants and employers throughout the NYC Region to provide support services
• Responsible for maintaining and updating key information in EHR records to ensure a state of audit-ready records
• Assist transitioning youth from school and unemployed individuals through a formal “Discovery” to explore possible careers
• Work effectively with consumers to obtain / maintain employment
• Maintain charts promptly and audit-ready condition
• Write clear and concise case notes and service plans promptly.
• Work in a cooperative manner with other Goodwill and non-GW programs.
• Effective Job Coaches will be able to develop good relationships with consumers, parents, therapists, group homes, and employers, to facilitate positive movement toward employment goals.
• Those relationships help consumers, to remove obstacles and barriers toward employment goals.
• Work effectively with employers to facilitate accommodations and address workplace problems / issues to result in greater job retention.
• Needs to maintain contact with consumers and employers to identify and resolve problems early on to prevent a job loss or termination from the program
• Good interpersonal skills
• Flexible Schedule and Travel throughout 5 boroughs, most time is spent out in the field at multiple sites and multiple boroughs each day
• Assists consumers in achieving the highest level of independent functioning on the job
• Coaches are encouraged to directly assist in job development activities and efforts
• Additional duties as requested by the Manager

Qualifications / Basic Job Requirements :

Scope of Responsibility & Positions Supervised :

N / A

Special Working Conditions :

Salary : $40,000