Job Coach - CE

Job Duties And Responsibilities

Provide direct training and support to individuals on community job sites.

Implement goals and objectives, and methods for achieving them.

Carry out instructional activities consistent with individual’s training objectives.

Document individual performance daily.

Keep all charts and daily reports up to date and accurate.

Submit data to supervisor as requested.

Attend and participate in any staff meetings.

If requested, handle transportation to and from job sites at the beginning of each placement.

Learn tasks of community job sites in order to train individual.

Be available as needed to provide support and follow-up.

Communicate with supervisor regarding the development of any necessary behavior intervention data.

Integrate the individual with his/her co-workers.

Provide model for others for appropriate way to interact with the individual.

Aid employer in working through any employment problems, encouraging employer to deal directly with the individual as much as possible.

Work with the employer in completing regular performance evaluations with the individual.

Handle any other duties assigned by the Executive Director as specified and within the time frame given.

Complete employment advocacy with employers, co-workers, and customers.

Essential Functions

Provide job coaching at community work sites and provide follow-up support.

Provide assistance securing transportation to community work sites.

Provide written documentation.

Represent the agency to the community.

Serve the needs of the individual.

Qualifications / Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Prefer post-secondary education in a human services related field.
• Must have six months work experience in direct support capacity.
• Ability to work flexible hours, including nights, weekends, and early mornings.
• Ability and capability to obtain and maintain valid Iowa Chauffeur’s license.
• Maintain acceptable driving records, as required by agency insurance company.
• Adaptability to new work conditions and change.
• Ability to apply job training methods such as cues, behavior reinforcement, prompting techniques, and other training concepts.
• Ability to assess job performance and record accurately.
• Must exhibit ability to meet people and to carry on social as well as professional conversations.
• A professional and personal image and attitude is needed to represent persons served the agency itself.
• Individual must not have or be a carrier of a serious infectious or communicable disease, such as but not limited to, incurable, fatal, or debilitating diseases, which cannot be eliminated or reduced by reasonable accommodation.
• Current examples would include, but not be limited to, tuberculosis.
• Determination of the existence of a serious disease is to be made by the proper medical authorities.
• Physical ability to do job coaching.
• Ability to learn to do a variety of tasks and to teach people with disabilities to do these tasks.
• Ability to work in a variety of environments, including industrial, fast food, motels, hospitals, restaurants, grocer/retail stores, etc.
• Must not have been legally convicted of any type of assault, abuse or bodily injury.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment when the situation requires immediate decision-making.
• Physical exam prior to employment and every four years thereafter.
• Ability to complete 10-hour med-management class.