Disability Employment Specialist: Supporting

4 days ago

Kamloops, Canada The Open Door Group Full time

**Job Title: Disability Employment Specialist**

**Location**: Community Outreach, Serving Clients both in Kamloops and Chase

**Number of Positions**: 1

**Posting Opened**: February 6th, 2024

**Grid 34 Step 2**: $30.64 per hour

**Hours of Work**: 36 hours a week

**Status**: Full-time, Permanent

Open Door Group has been opening doors to lifelong learning and career success throughout BC since 1976 and have recently expanding Nationally

At Open Door Group we aim to support lifelong learning and career success for the people we serve, as well as our employees. We pride ourselves on modeling a culture of authenticity, transparency and inclusion. Our values are based on the genuine belief that all individuals can succeed and are the drivers of their own success.
We are looking for a full-time **Disability** Employment Specialist** to work within the Kamloops and Chase communities. This position will have you meeting clients where they are at in their communities. Travel within both the Kamloops and Chase community will be critical in this role to support our clients.
Under the general supervision of the Associate Program Director or designated coordinator/manager, as the Disability Employment Specialist (DES), you will assist clients with a disability to successfully acquire education, work, or play (leisure/recreation) in the community by determining appropriate interventions required to meet individual needs and situational requirements.

You will provide a variety of day-to-day emotional and social support; coaches, demonstrates, and supports clients to acquire employment readiness, essential, leisure/recreation, and employment skills; facilitates community, education and/or job placements; provides onsite community/education/employment coaching; provides advocacy, information, and access to community resources.

**Duties**:

- Engages in goal setting and case planning activities with clients by performing duties such as interviewing clients to 1) identify and understand previous experience and 2) determine needs/wants, including supporting informal, self-reporting Disability Related Needs Assessments (DRENA); document client’s needs, wants, and progress; assist clients to develop realistic goals; and identify and determine appropriate interventions, programs, or resources to help support clients to achieve their goals.
- Supports clients through the completion of the customized employment discovery process and prepares discovery profiles, vocational plans, and disability management plans for review and approval by Vocational Consultant colleagues.
- Meets regularly with Vocational Consultants and other relevant colleagues, to review customized client files and progress.
- Observes clients, identifies, and assesses potential emergency situations, and develops short-term strategies to deal with such situations. Reports medical, behavioral, and other problems as required.
- Provides supportive counselling and behavioral management techniques to assist clients in establishing strategies to seek, obtain, and maintain employment.
- Teaches client and and provide coaching using a variety of instructional methodologies to enable the development of skills necessary for increased employability, personal independence, and/or participation in community education/leisure/recreation programs and services.
- Ensure clients have access to the necessary skills and resources to engage in a job/community search process.
- Facilitates the placement of clients by performing duties such as directly approaching community agencies and/or employers to identify and secure opportunities, explain wage subsidy information and placement terms to clients and community agencies/employers.
- Follow up with employers and community providers to ensure education, community/work experience, employment/recreation/leisure placements and agreements are established and maintained, and to monitor the quality of placements.
- Ensure the sustainability of community and employment placements by performing duties such as onsite community/job coaching; access to supportive counselling and further skills building; and access to government incentives, i.e., wage subsidies.
- Builds and maintains relationships with various community networks including contractors, employers, and clients.
- Responsible for ensuring that relevant statistical, program and student/participant reports are processed accurately, reflect professional quality, and adhere to established deadlines.
- Achieves monthly and annual goals and objectives and maintains acceptable standards of service quality.

**QUALIFICATIONS**
- Diploma in Social Sciences or a relevant discipline.
- Valid B.C. driver's license and use of personal vehicle during working hours. Must be able to travel throughout the province.
- Or other Qualifications determined to be reasonable and relevant to the level of work.

**EXPERIENCE**

Recent, related experience of two years in supporting people with disa

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