COMHAR, Inc. is a nonprofit health & human services organization that provides a broad spectrum of integrated behavioral health, intellectual disabilities, HIV/AIDS, and home health services to children, adults and the elderly.  COMHAR provides these services through a staff of approximately 570 in a range of community, home, residential, school and workplace settings. COMHAR serves ethnically and culturally diverse populations including Hispanic/Latino, LGBTQ+, and HIV/AIDS communities. COMHAR enjoys a long and proud history.

Industry: Individual and Family Services
Company Size: 501-1,000 employees

COMHAR, Inc.

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- Job type:** Full-time

**Description**

At COMHAR, it's our mission to provide health and human services that empower individuals, families, and communities to live healthier, self-determined lives. COMHAR, Inc's Intellectual and Developmental Disability Employment Program supports individuals to reach their fullest potential and live happy, productive lives through meaningful work and paid employment in their community.

As COMHAR re-establishes Employment Services, we are looking for an Employment Support Specialist to manage the supports each client receives through their employment journeys. Through collaboration and a community focused approach, this position will provide individualized opportunities for adults with disabilities that enhance their employment skills, identify career interests, maintain work, while developing new learning and employment opportunities. This position seeks a candidate who is flexible and brings enthusiasm to the growing team and program.

The Employment Support Specialist will work within COMHAR's Day Program and with businesses and employers in the community to bring awareness to the benefits of competitive integrated employment. This position will deliver quality services that include on the job training, job development, assessments that promote independence, community integration and a person-centered approach.

The ID Day Program gives individuals the skills necessary to pursue vocational/employment interests in both facility and community-based settings. Services are structured to simulate an actual work environment and focus on the development of skills that teach appropriate work behaviors and attitudes fostering independence, growth, and self-fulfillment. Individuals are compensated for marketable products which they produce, or for services which they perform while engaged in their training.

**Salary**

$18.00 - $19.00 / hourly

**Shift**

40 hours per week which may include weekends and/or evenings with observed holidays off per COMHAR policy.

**Needs**

2 Openings for Position

The ID-Day Program offers services that are provided in both facility and community-based settings for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, as well as those with intensive physical health needs (wheelchair, tube feeding, catheters, colostomy). Supports are offered through a variety of activities that develop life, socialization, motor, and adaptive skill sets.

The ID-Day Program is looking for candidates who are looking to make a difference in the lives of persons who are intellectually disabled. The Employment Supports Specialist help coordinate and manage training and supports in line with each consumer's existing needs and targeted service goals. Their responsibilities include planning and overseeing consumer activities, implementing program policies, and developing Individual Service Plan (ISP) for the consumer. Our ideal applicant will have a strong background composing and updating individual service plans of persons with intellectual disabilities.

COMHAR offers three different training programs to meet individuals' varying level of need and setting preference. Programs include developmental training to teach basic skills, facility-based vocational training, community-based instruction, and supported employment.

**Responsibilities**

-  Provide consumers with on-the-job training, counseling, resources, job development and supports that are person-centered, promotes independence, encourages community participation, and prioritizes paid employment.

-  Deliver services in a manner that actively engages and challenges each individual to increase their independent functioning, self-esteem, self-sufficiency, and towards more independent adult living.

-  Create opportunities and supports for assessments, internships, or paid employment aimed at helping individuals fine-tune their employment interests and skills.

-  Provide on the job trai ing and supports to individuals of a nature, intensity and duration that enhances success, integration, and independence on the job. Create a deliberate plan fade support that balances risk against gain.

-  Work cooperatively with COMHAR staff, supervisors, consumers, team members associated with the consumers enrolled in the Employment program, and employers and in a manner that is consistent with core values.

-  Work cooperatively with funding sources and referral agencies in a manner that is consistent with core values.

-  Actively participate in and contribute to activities/projects/teams that serve the broader unit, agency, and community needs or interests.

-  Seek out and participate in training and professional development to satisfy requirements to heighten the quality of services, build and strengthen business and community resources, and prioritizes Employment First.

-  Follow all policies and procedures established by COMHAR, federal, state and county laws and funding entities.

-  Maintain an active exchange with supervisor or issues and/or needs. Offer a deliberate responsiveness to supervisory directives, instruction, and feedback. Observe the unit's and the agency's chain of command.

-  Maintain professional and on-going relationships with case managers, local, state, and federal funders.

-  Conduct and coordinate service provision and documentation in a timely, cost-conscious manner.

**Physical Demands**

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear others and accurately interpret speech and sounds. Frequently required to stand; walk; climb and descend stairs. Required to use hands and arms to reach, hold and carry objects. Required to sit; stand, maintain balance; occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception & ability to adjust optical focus for reading, driving, general observation and for all safety needs.

**Full Time Employees are eligible for generous benefit options including but not limited to:**

-  Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance with plan options to fit your needs

-  Life and Long Term Disability Insurance

-  403B Retirement Savings Plan

-  Paid Time Off (Holiday, sick, PTO, vacation)

-  Tuition Reimbursement

-  Employee Assistance Program

-  Additional supplemental voluntary insurance options including Disability, Accident and Pet Insurance

**Requirements**

**Level 1:**

High School Diploma or GED

Must be ACRE certified

ID Employment Specialist

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