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Bancroft · 2 days ago

Employment Specialist

Swedesboro, NJ

Full-time

Onsite

Entry Level

$22.18/hr - $22.63/hr

2+ years exp

Bancroft is a nonprofit organization committed to supporting people with special needs and their families. They are seeking an Employment Specialist to provide job assessment, career development, skills training, and on-site job coaching to individuals served, facilitating their community-based employment.

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Responsibilities

Provides ongoing job assessment, career development, skills training, and on-site job coaching to persons served within the Bancroft organization to identify, maintain, and enhance community-based employment

Performs activities associated with the ongoing job development of assigned persons served to best match the job preferences and needs of the individual and prospective employer

Conducts job assessments on an ongoing basis with assigned persons served to identify individual job preferences, interests, abilities, and satisfaction for subsequent group work assignments

Identifies and proactively approaches prospective employer organizations to encourage the employment of persons served within their organizations; e.g., serves on business advisory committees, accesses existing employer database/network, attends job fairs, etc

In consort with prospective employers, surveys, develops, and documents job openings for matching to persons served; conducts/coordinates and evaluates job sampling activities and on-site tours of employer job site to determine job suitability

Works one-on-one with persons served to identify individual career goals, document career development plan, encourage progressive career growth, develop a resume, accompany persons served to job interviews, provide support in completing job applications, etc. Supports and provides information to persons served regarding Social Security benefits, Unemployment benefits, etc., and refers individual to appropriate agency/issue specialist, as needed

Provides individual job coaching and mentoring to assigned persons served to encourage and support social integration and the development of natural supports at employer job sites

Provides support to persons served at employer job site with job training needs; e.g., explaining employer organization’s policies and procedures, providing orientation regarding job structure and management’s performance expectations, reorienting persons served to job and management changes, providing instruction regarding proper utilization of equipment, explaining appropriate personal appearance and attire at job site, etc

Facilitates the social integration of persons served into the existing employer job site; strives to build and maintain effective on-the-job work relationships to encourage the development of natural supports for persons served and coworkers and promote a level of acceptance in the workplace

Provides sensitivity training and support to employers and coworkers when the need is identified or when specifically requested by employer

Provides safety instruction to persons served in the workplace and within the community to ensure a safe and secure work environment

Provides ongoing follow-along supports to persons served, employer, and coworkers