Vocational Coach

We are growing our team and seeking an experienced Vocational Coach!

• Do you have experience providing job coaching in community or workplace settings?
• Are you familiar with person-centered planning and employment goal development?
• Do you have experience collaborating with vocational rehabilitation agencies, CMH, or other support services?

If so, we invite you to consider a career at Eisenhower Center! Below are more details before you decide to apply:

Location: onsite in Ann Arbor, MI with some travel to Manchester, MI

Position: Vocational Coach

Hourly: $20.00

Benefits start after 30 days:
Health, Dental, Vision and many more!

* All offers of employment are contingent upon all applicable background screens*

The Vocational Coach advances Eisenhower Center’s commitment to becoming the premier neurobehavioral rehabilitation organization in the country by helping residents develop purpose, independence, confidence, functional skills, and meaningful community participation.
Using trauma-focused, evidence-based, person-centered practices, the Vocational Coach provides individualized vocational assessment, coaching, skill development, productive engagement, and community-based opportunities consistent with each resident’s abilities, interests, behavioral needs, service plan, and personal goals.

• Build respectful, therapeutic relationships grounded in dignity, choice, strengths, and resident preferences.
• Help residents identify meaningful vocational interests, abilities, and personal goals.
• Provide individualized coaching that develops confidence, independence, work readiness, and life skills.
• Adapt activities to cognitive, physical, behavioral, sensory, and communication needs.
• Promote progress toward independence, rather than unnecessary dependence on staff assistance.

• Follow individualized service plans, behavioral protocols, safety plans, and clinical recommendations.
• Use positive behavioral supports, trauma-focused approaches, modeling, reinforcement, redirection, and approved de-escalation strategies.
• Recognize and communicate changes in behavior, motivation, functioning, or vocational participation.
• Use vocational engagement intentionally to support routine, emotional regulation, confidence, responsibility, and productive behavior.

• Develop meaningful internal and community-based vocational opportunities.
• Build partnerships with local businesses and community organizations that expand resident opportunities.
• Coach residents in workplace expectations, people skills, punctuality, communication, task completion, problem-solving, and professional behavior.
• Provide side-by-side coaching while progressively encouraging greater resident independence.
• Support vocational exploration, job readiness, employment searches, and productive engagement based on individual goals.
• Encourage opportunities that reflect real-world skills and meaningful contribution, not simply activity completion.

• Coordinate vocational goals with the interdisciplinary team and the resident’s individualized plan.
• Collaborate with therapeutic engagement, behavioral services, rehabilitation therapies, nursing, case management, direct-care staff, and other appropriate disciplines.
• Share objective observations regarding resident strengths, barriers, progress, and support needs.
• Participate in care planning, program development, and quality-improvement activities as assigned.

• Document vocational services, resident participation, progress, barriers, and significant observations accurately and on time.
• Maintain accurate records for residents participating in paid work opportunities.
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