Vocational Specialist

Overview

Join Tessera and make a difference! Tessera is:

• A national leader in employing individuals with disabilities and veterans.

• Composed of a dynamic, growing team of social entrepreneurs.

• Operating self-sustaining businesses across 15 states and in the District of Columbia, workforce of over 1,700 employees.

• Dedicated to delivering an exceptional customer experience to our customers.

• Committed to offering an outstanding employee support and development program.

Location: Oak Harbor, Washington - NAS Whidbey Island (In-person)

Type: Non-Exempt, Hourly

Compensation: $25.77 - $34.44 per hour

Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday – Friday 7:30 am – 4:00 pm (flexible start and end times depending on scheduling needs)

As a Vocational Specialist, you'll… The Vocational Specialist serves as a subject matter lead within a cross functional team, supporting a caseload of approximately 90 employees with significant disabilities. This position works directly with employees, supervisors, site leadership, and the Regional Vice President to ensure employees with disabilities receive support and accommodations. Requires a combination of employee-focused activities and preparation and updating of required disability documentation, requiring professional-level writing and editing.

This position will require the Vocational Specialist to interact in person, telephonically, and via email/fax with managers, supervisors, employees, candidates, medical providers, and government rehabilitation agencies.

• Provides job customization/individualization, accommodations, and career planning to encourage upward and outward mobility.

• Connects employees with internal and external resources.

• 40% of the position is writing federal Ability One reports.

• Maintains required documentation for each employee on caseload to include federal Ability One reports, case notes, accommodation plans, and disability summaries.

• Interacts in person, telephonically, and via email/fax with managers, supervisors, employees, candidates, medical providers, and government rehabilitation agencies.

• Reviews and assesses disability documentation for applicants and current employees to ensure they qualify under the Ability One program.

• Assists with crisis intervention, suicide prevention, and life safety planning to support employees who are struggling or in crises.

• Creates content and facilitates training and presentations to employees and/or supervisors around disability-related issues including accommodations on a quarterly basis.

• Creates and tracks employee’s safety and accommodation plans.

• Promotes Tessera’s positive safety culture and safety mindset with employees.

• Promotes the Tessera mission and educate supervisors, managers, and employees on disability awareness and the requirements of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) for Tessera workplaces.

• Works as a member of a diverse cross functional team consisting of professionals dedicated to servicing a large and diverse number of Tessera sites.

• Develops collaborative relationships with Tessera site management and supervisors to support all Tessera employees of all abilities. This will require monthly meetings with site management and supervisors to review accommodation information of employees for their federal Ability One reports.

• Supports the RVP, recruiters, HR Partners, and site managers in maintaining the Ability One disability ratio.

• Manages a caseload of approximately 70-90 Tessera employees with a wide variety of disabilities; ensure that these employees are being provided job customization and individualization as well as the most appropriate accommodations to allow them to perform their work successfully and safely.

• Provides job coaching as needed for employees to learn job tasks/functions.

• Works with Tessera’s Career Advisor to encourage upward mobility within Tessera and outward mobility beyond Tessera, depending on their career aspirations.

• Works with site and safety personnel to help reduce injuries among Tessera employees.

• Reviews and assesses disability documentation for applicants and current employees to ensure they qualify under the Ability One program. Frequently, this will require phone calls to…