Education Employment Specialist - 1340752 - CA
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Our company is known for an unwavering commitment to exceptional value and recovery-focused, quality care. We are experts in the field of behavioral health care, providing cutting-edge mental health and substance use community-based services and offer a dynamic employment experience! Pathways offers competitive salaries and benefits, comprehensive on-boarding and job training, a supportive learning environment, ongoing education in the use of evidence-based, promising practices and much more! We have over 30 outpatient behavioral health locations nestled throughout our communities located in Kern County, Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Diego County.
Project RENEW provides personalized and recovery-oriented mental health services to children and adolescents (0-17 years old) with severe and persistent mental illness, who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. Working with a multidisciplinary team; children, adolescents and family members receive individualized goal setting, intensive case management, temporary assistance with housing, educational services, employment services, substance abuse services, skill-development groups, medication management, and community based activities. SUMMARY OF PROGRAM
The education/employment specialist acts as the liaison between the client and the employers/representatives from educational/vocational services.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities
Develop and maintain education/job bank records
Asses clients for placement
Refer clients to applicable resources
Ensure one on one education and employment support is provided
Maintain client records and provide follow up contact for successful placement assurance
Provide job readiness training to clients
Other duties as assigned or necessary to support the program and/or the company
Maintains daily record of work activities completing daily service progress notes and billing forms per Company and government standards and in compliance with Short Doyle/Medi-Cal requirements related to case management
Develop and maintain professional working relationships with agencies and service providers
Meet monthly productivity goal requirement
Provide the best customer care possible; including reliability in working a flexible working schedule
Recovery requirements
Provide the best customer care possible
Identify and build upon the strengths of consumers, coworkers, and the communities we serve.
Support consumer’s steps toward Recovery Wellness.
Create an organizational culture that respects and celebrates the diversity of our consumers.
Value learning as an ongoing process that enables us to better service our consumers and establishes our leadership in the industry.
Research and utilize our industry’s best practices and analyze our own services to ensure the possible outcomes.
DO THE FOLLOWING APPLY TO YOU?
Bachelor degree from an accredited university and a minimum of two years experience on the job coaching, job development or educational services or five (5) or more years experience in job coaching, job development or educational services.- Bilingual Spanish Preferred
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
Valid Driver’s license and proof of automobile insurance
Knowledge, skills and Experience
Knowledge and experience with job and educational/vocational coordination for transitional age youth is required
Excellent organizational skills, interpersonal skills, computer skills and communication skills are a must.
Physical Requirements
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk and sit.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
PERKS OF WORKING WITH PATHWAYS CALIFORNIA:
Employee Referral Bonus Program
Bi-Weekly Pay
401k
Employee Assistance Program
Perks @ Pathways (student loan refinancing, pet insurance, Verizon wireless discount, movie, hotel, concert and sporting event discounts)
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