Employment Specialist (Job Coaching) - Eau Claire
Aurora Community Services
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Quick overview
The specialist will provide job-skill training and coaching to consumers to help them acquire and maintain independent employment, while also implementing their individual employment plans. Key duties include monitoring progress through assessments, identifying barriers, and completing detailed daily and monthly reports.
Requirements summary
The ideal candidate should be organized and detail-oriented, playing a crucial role in consumer career development by advocating for employment and ensuring goals are clear and achievable. Responsibilities also involve acting as a liaison between supervisors, consumers, and employers to facilitate successful employment outcomes.
Job description
Your New Beginning Starts Here
We’re more than a human services agency—we’re partners in transformation, walking alongside you on the journey to a fuller, richer life.
We are seeking an organized and detail-oriented person to join our team . The candidate will play a crucial role in consumers career development.
Details
- Work Location Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls and fill in at times in Dunn County
- Hours: 10-20 hrs. a week
- Full availability, to include weekends, evenings if needed
- Consumer Advocacy
- Advocate for employment development to improve independence
- Ensure that consumer’s employment goal is clear, well defined, and achievable
- Act as a liaison between supervisor, consumer, and employer to appropriately communicate concerns and create successful employment outcomes
Responsibilities
- Provide job-skill training/coaching to help consumers acquire and maintain independent employment
- Implement consumer’s individual employment plan
- Monitor employment progress by completing assessment activities that determine skill level, and identify existing or new barriers
- Complete daily/monthly reports and documentation based on observations of work performance, goal progress, job coaching hours, and any additional supportive information
- Attend scheduled meetings/trainings and communicate professionally
- Protect consumer confidentiality
- Comply with all ARA and employment site safety standards
- Assist with personal care/medical needs as directed by supervisor
- Identify and report work hazards
- Other duties as assigned
Benefits
- Option to get paid before payday
- Opportunities for advancement in a growing, hire-from-within company
- Employee discount - Verizon and Dell
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vacation/Personal Hours
- Employee Stock Ownership
- 401-K
- Employee Achievement Program
- Longevity Bonus for Part Time or Full Time Employees
- Casual dress (no uniforms), fun work atmosphere
- And more
If you are looking to make a difference, join the Aurora team! Aurora Community Services is proud to be an Employee Owned Company! An EOE/AA Employer
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Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Life insurance
- 401-K
- Opportunities for advancement
- Employee discount
- Employee stock ownership
- Longevity bonus
- Casual dress
- Paid before payday option
- Vacation/Personal hours
- Employee achievement program