Cook​/Housekeeper - Riverdale

YAI's Mission Ready to join our 4,000+ employees in a career at YAI? Working at YAI means effecting real change in people's lives. It means going home at the end of the day knowing you have helped someone accomplish a goal. If you want a career supporting others, creatively finding solutions to life's challenges, and building a more inclusive community, YAI is the place for you!

Join us in our mission to create opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live, love, work, and learn in their communities.

Program (Residential) Riverdale IRA Location Bronx - 281 West 261st St Schedule (Part time, Weekend) Saturday and Sunday; 8am - 4pm

• Maintaining Professionalism and Punctuality
• Taking Ownership/ Accountability
• Being Flexible:
  Job responsibilities may change based on needs
• Adhering to policies, procedures and regulations
• Using effective communication skills & time management skills
• Being a member of a highly effective team
• Ensuring maintenance upkeep and safety based on facility/ program structure
• Completing mandatory trainings based on the program and position as well as applying skills
• Ensuring health, wellness and safety
• Understanding when to contact an administrator for support
• Building Positive relationships
• Cooking and preparing meals according to dietary needs
• Sweeping and mopping floors
• Dusting furniture and other fixtures
• Vacuuming carpets and area rugs
• Cleaning kitchen appliances/refrigerator
• Cleaning and organizing kitchen cabinets
• Discarding expired foods
• Emptying trash receptacle/bags
• Other cleaning responsibilities if the need arises

Work or life experience with intellectual/developmental disabilities is a plus

• Exceptional interpersonal, problem solving and communication skills
• Willing to take initiative
• Higly flexible personality type

$17.50 hourly

• Daily Pay available - Work today, get paid today!
• Tuition reimbursement 403(b) retirement with employer matching contributions
• Life insurance and long-term disability
• Discounts on travel, entertainment, wireless services, shopping, and more.

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.

Our Roots 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.

YAI Today Today, YAI has a team of over 4,000 employees and supports over 20,000 people in the I/DD community. This extraordinary growth shows the ongoing need for these important services, and YAI’s success in offering them. YAI supports people with autism, Down syndrome, and Cerebral Palsy, among others. Operating throughout Downstate New York and Northern New Jersey, YAI now offers more than 300 programs for people of all ages.

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