Job Coach PRN
Listed on 2025-12-31
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Social Work
Community Health
Who We Are:
At Challenge Unlimited, our vision is to become a national leader in providing employment services to people with disabilities that empower them to reach their full potential. We intentionally provide opportunities for individuals with disabilities which will assist them to live, work, and participate in the community.
Challenge Unlimited is driven by its core values: community, helpfulness, abilities, leadership, learning, ethics, innovation, growth, and effective outcomes. It is these values that have powered Challenge Unlimited to its success and has helped over 600 disabled individuals find meaningful work across all of our locations.
Position Summary:Reporting to the Director of Community Employment, the Job Coach facilitates vocational training services which provide people who have different abilities opportunities to work with integrated teams and receive work support as needed—achieving the highest level of independence possible.
Responsible for providing 1-1 vocational employment support, job skills training, orientation, and ongoing support for clients with disabilities seeking community employment. Maintain accurate records, provide professional communication with managers, clients, and employers. Encourage effective outcomes and accountability. Help the Employment Services Team maintain quality services and meet outcomes in both Illinois and Missouri. Maintain up to date understanding of the expectations for each program and techniques that will provide best practices and quality outcomes.
Gain working understanding of services and outcome requirements for paid contract services.
Build an effective company culture that embodies our company values to achieve goals and objectives. Provides services resulting in client placement that meets client interests and desired employment and the individual service plan and funding source goals of placements.
Pay Details- Pay Rate: $19.00
- Shift: On call as needed
- Location: Illinois & Missouri
Provide verbal cues and support services for each client. Create job coaching plan – based on job duties, assist with the identification of effective job accommodations for clients as needed, provide feedback, re-direction, verbal cues, modeling support. Problem solve to create accommodations or other ways to address performance issues; task analysis, check lists, implement proper fading/re-entry techniques to ensure client success.
Communicate with Supervisor(s) for feedback, concerns, additional job tasks, etc. Support consumers to develop and maintain relationships with co-workers and supervisors. Assist with task analysis as needed and implement proper fading/re-entry techniques to ensure consumer success. Conduct 1-2 assessments based on client’s employment goals and interests – determine, if necessary, skills are present for job positions and job readiness. Maintains contact with ES Case Manager assigned to the consumer to report progress and difficulties.
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