Employment Training Specialist

Description

Join Devereux New Jersey Where Great Careers SOAR!

You deserve to work somewhere that gives back to you!

Devereux is proud to offer ASCEND – the first career accelerator program exclusively designed to give behavioral healthcare workers – the career guidance, one-on-one coaching, skills and financial assistance you need to reach your full potential. This program includes 100% of tuition covered (up to fifteen thousand dollars annually for undergraduate and twenty-five thousand dollars annually for graduate) and student loan repayment, among other benefits!

Being a Employment Training Specialist (ETS) has its Advantages

As a Employment Training Specialist at Devereux, you will work with other dedicated professionals who share your passion for helping individuals in need.

What Devereux offers YOU:

• Time off benefits starting on day one!
• Excellent health benefits, effective 30 days after employment at https://www.mydevereuxbenefits.org/.
• Tuition and student loan assistance.
• Growth and training development.
• A Challenging, rewarding and exciting management position that makes a positive impact on the lives of the individuals we serve.
• Working environment that is collaborative with multidisciplinary team.
• Opportunity to engage with an organization that values Servant Leadership principles, allowing staff to be their authentic selves at work.

The Employment Training Specialist reports direct to the Supported Employment Manager. The position location is statewide.

Salary: Starting at $20.50 and increases with education/experience.

What Devereux Looks for in YOU:

• Identify the individual's interests in order to facilitate a job/career of choice.
• Identify the individual's skills and talents using functional community based assessments in order to facilitate a job/career of choice
• Identify workplace supports that assist the individual with a disability in becoming employed and/or maintaining employment
• Identify and Negotiate customized jobs for individuals with disabilities.
• Address employer concerns about hiring and supervising people with disabilities while maintaining the confidentiality of the job seekers
• Use data collection techniques to document effectiveness of workplace supports and to guide fading from the job site
• Provide or facilitate both on and off the job supports to help increase the odds that the individual with a disability becomes successful at work
• Collect and analyze performance data to assist with making decisions about the effectiveness of work place supports. As needed, modify supports and/or develop new ones
• Identify and develop natural supports in the workplace.

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Qualifications

You'd make a great ETS if you have:

• Have a minimum of a High School Diploma/GED.
• Have a valid non-provisional driver's license.
• Be 18 years of age or older (required).
• Be able to attend ten days of paid onsite orientation on weekdays.
• Be empathetic and have a team approach to care for our individuals.

Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse, and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.