Location: Hamann Pkwy Willoughby, OH 44094
Shift: Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 2:30pm
FLSA: Nonexempt
Vocational Guidance Services (VGS) changes lives and strengthens our communities through services that educate, empower, and provide the opportunity to earn a paycheck! VGS is a highly acclaimed, successful, private, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) vocational rehabilitation agency with over 130 years of dedicated experience serving persons with disabilities or other barriers to employment. We are currently seeking to hire a Rehabilitation Specialist to assist individuals referred from CCBDD and Medicaid funding sources to meet their basic living skills goals. The Rehabilitation Specialist will be responsible for performing the following duties.
The Rehabilitation Specialist will assist individuals with developmental disabilities with employment opportunities in a manufacturing environment consisting of production, fulfillment and custodial duties. This staff will help individuals become acclimated with the site, learn work skills and ensure assigned job responsibilities are completed daily.
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Provide services to adults in group employment programming. Develop activities to keep individuals active and engaged every day. Work with individuals to teach work skills and assist with work flow to provide continuous work opportunities.
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Assist individual in engaging in programming designed to increase daily living skills and personal and social adjustment.
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Shape personal and social behaviors of individuals through coaching, modeling, and demonstration.
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Maintain a caseload of up to 12 individuals including case notes, ISP revision dates, documentation, recommendations for transition to next opportunities, etc. and keep supervision up to date regarding individual progress.
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Maintain a positive work atmosphere by behaving and communicating in a professional manner that gets along with customers, vendors, individuals, co-workers, and supervisors.
