Community Habilitation Specialist - DSP

Schedule:

Full time, Part time, weekday and/or weekend positions available - including morning, afternoon, and evening schedules.

• Adhering to policies, procedures and regulations.
• Using effective communication skills and time management skills.
• Providing one-to-one supports in community and home settings.
• Completing mandatory trainings based on the program and position (AMAP, CPR/First Aid, SCIP-R, Defensive Driving, etc.), as well as applying skills.
• Meeting and demonstrating OPWDD Core Competencies.
• Ensuring health, wellness and safety by managing crisis situations and providing appropriate supervision of the people we support.
• Demonstrating a willingness to assist people with ADLs.
• Transporting and escorting people we support on recreational activities, medical appointment, home visits, etc.
• Building Positive relationships.
• Maintaining a therapeutic environment through a variety of methods:
  Personal Outcome Measures, Person Centered Thinking, Informed Decision Making.
• Ensuring person centered plans are implemented.
• Completing documentation to ensure compliance and billing.
• Using foundational Teaching skills (EMOE, Task analysis, essential skills, supports and modifications, etc.
• Performs all other duties, as assigned.

• including education, experience, licensure/certification, etc. and essential physical capabilities (e.g. lifting, assisting lifting, standing, etc.)
• Valid Driver's License.
• Personal vehicle, car insurance.
• Willingness to use personal vehicle for work.
• Basic computer knowledge.
• Basic written and verbal communication.
• Ability to support people with intellectual/developmental disabilities.
• Ability to travel in Rockland.
• Tuberculosis test mandatory for most positions.

• High School diploma or its educational equivalent preferred.
• Work or life experience supporting people with intellectual/developmental disabilities is a plus.

• Daily Pay available - Work today, get paid today!
• Tuition reimbursement
• Medical and dental insurance (with options for family and more extensive medical plans, as well as vision)
• Paid vacation, holidays, and sick time
• 403(b) retirement with employer match
• Life insurance and long-term disability
• Discounts on travel, entertainment, wireless services, shopping, and more.

$19.05/hour - $19.05/hour

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or status as a Vietnam or disabled veteran.

YAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To ensure fairness, safeguard transparency, and promote an equitable workforce environment, YAI Network prohibits the practice of nepotism in the workforce and hiring process.

YAI was launched in February of 1957 out of a small school in Brooklyn, New York. Initially staffed by Co-Founders Bert Mac Leech and Pearl Maze Mac Leech alone, their pilot program served just seven people. According to Bert, from its very beginning YAI has been dedicated to providing innovative services for the I/DD (intellectual and/or developmental disabilities) community. Mac Leech envisioned a, “total life adjustment approach, emphasizing personal growth, social responsibility, employment goals, and the development of independence for the individual.”

At a time when institutional living was the norm for people with I/DD, this vision was nothing short of revolutionary.

Today, YAI has a team of over 4,000 employees and supports over 20,000 people in the I/DD community. This extraordinary…