What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mentor with American Sign Language Skills position at Integrated Interventions LLC?
***We are currently seeking mentors with part time or full-time availability that possess American Sign Language Skills***
What we are looking for:
Highly motivated applicants who want to be a mentor to deaf or hard of hearing individuals, working side by side with them through independent living skills, hobbies, and daily living routines. Mentors at Integrated Interventions are alert and present throughout the entirety of the shift, supportive to all students and staff who may need them in the house, provide a safe and caring environment, maintain a clean residence, and help students to get out into the world and explore.
Integrated Interventions recognizes that our staff live fulfilling lives. Our Mentors help students to learn basic living skills in a hand-over-hand environment that promotes growth and development. to build hobbies and interests into their program. Current mentoring staff have also introduced students to outdoor activities like hunting, fishing, kayaking, and camping. Other Mentors have built community with students through sharing a love for art walks, crafting, cooking, plays, pottery classes and so much more.
We are looking for applicants that can be patient and understanding with Students, accept feedback and guidance from their peers, and strive to help those we serve leave here better than when they arrived.
Who are we:
Integrated Interventions is a premier transitional living program for young adults aged 18 and older. Our staff work diligently to help students learn the life skills required to be sustainably independent. Students leaving our program go on to live happy, healthy, and productive lives. We are the last step on the therapeutic journey that many of our students have been on for many years.
Our Mentors take the lead in supporting participants through ongoing, one-on-one mentoring while serving as a positive role model. Take all of the hands-on work skills, interpersonal skills, and outdoor skills you encompass and build a relationship with mentees by planning and participating in activities together. Through these adventures, our mentors and mentees alike build self-esteem and motivation.
Work environment:
The work environment for this position is individual community-based housing (not a residential facility setting). While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be exposed to clients who may ask inappropriate personal questions, display socially unacceptable personal behaviors, use profanity and sexually explicit phrases, make insulting remarks or threats regarding appearance, age, sex, or race, and exhibit defiance, dishonesty, and assaultive or self-destructive behaviors. The employee is exposed to outside seasonal weather conditions.
Responsibilities:
- Direct one-on-one mentoring
- Willing to transport students to and from appointments and activities in personal vehicle.
- Teach life skills, work ethic, cleaning, etc.
- Our staff assist participants with daily living in their homes as well as in the community
- Work as a team with other direct care staff or crisis staff in the home (as appropriate to student to staff ratios) encouraging participants towards increased independence
- Meal planning and preparation, organizational skills, appointments and organizing a schedule
- Assist with taking and documenting medications
- Most Importantly get the client out in the community experiencing life and having fun by appropriately working for the funds and then planning on the calendar to go to the movies, bowling, a day at the lake, Tubbs Hill, and anything else fun or exciting you can think of!
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or GED equivalency; preferably supplemented by college level coursework in Social work, Education, Recreational Therapy, or other related area.
- Minimum age requirement: 21-years of age.
- Any equivalent combination of experience and training which provides the knowledge and abilities necessary to perform the work;
- Possess valid state issued driver’s license and vehicle insurance;
- Possess a reliable, fueled transportation;
- Ability to pass a criminal background check and fingerprinting process;
- Obtain CPR and First Aid certification within 30 days of hire and maintain certification throughout employment.
- American Sign Language Skills
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: $17.00 - $20.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Flexible schedule
- Paid time off
Schedule:
- 4 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
Work Location: In person
Salary : $17 - $20
