Join us as a Job Coach in Community Services

Vacancy Type:         Fixed Term (12 months) - Full-Time/Part Time
Job reference:         494530
Applications close: 05-Jun-2024

About the Role

The Job Coach will deliver supports to facilitate employment options for people with a disability.  This includes assessing the pre-employment & employment needs of people with a disability, assisting with employment related capacity building, preparing them for work, assisting them to achieve employment & supporting them to maintain employment. This position will work closely with Community Supports to ensure the person with a disability has all the supports required to sustain employment.

We Offer

• An attractive remuneration package with excellent salary packaging tax benefits
• Flexible working hours
• A rewarding career in a growing service sector
• Supportive team environment 
• The opportunity to work alongside and empower people with disability to reach their maximum potential
• Ongoing training, team support and professional development opportunities

Specific Role Responsibilities

As a Job Coach you will play a pivotal role in the delivery of supports to facilitate employment options for people with disability thereby enhancing their quality of life. Your Key responsibilities will include (but not limited to):

• Using a customised employment approach support people with a disability to work towards their employment related goals.  
• Work to develop, update, and review individualised discovery & employment plans
• In consultation with community supports develop, design and coordinate capacity building supports & activities to complement skills required to maintain employment
• Identify, source, & establish ongoing relationships with local employers
• Engage with employers to identify options for volunteering, work experience and open employment
• Negotiate and create roles with employers that both add value to the employer but also suit the particular skills, abilities and interests of the person with a disability
• Provide on the job post placement support to participant & employers
• Complete comprehensive assessments for participant placements or employment that assess needs of both participants & employers.
• Work with other supports in a coordinated manner to support the client to achieve their employment goals.  This may include community supports, DES provider, Allied Health services etc.
• Assist participants with workplace supports, including but not limited to Job Access, Workplace Modifications application/s etc.
• Complete all administrative requirements, including file notes, plans, reports etc.
• Meet requirements for billable hours & utilising the funding allocated to the participant.
• Where required, assist participants with personal, self-care & medication management; use appropriate manual handling, follow behaviour, medication, or other support plans.

About You

To be successful in this role you'll share Yooralla's Values and have:

• Leadership experience: Demonstrated leadership of support delivery teams
• Sector Knowledge: Understanding of legislation and standards relevant to the disability sector.
• Relationship Building: Ability to maintain strong relationships with stakeholders including employers, potential employers and other partners
• Communication Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Resource Management: Demonstrated ability to manage financial and staff resources within a complex environment.
• Initiative and Organization: Excellent initiative, self-directed work practices, and highly developed organizational skills.
• Minimum Certificate IV, or relevant work experience in disability, community services, employment services or a related field

Other Mandatory requirements

·         International Police Check (if required)

·         Working with Children Check

·         NDIS Worker Screening Check

·         Current driver's licence to drive in Australia

·         Requirement to use own smartphone or tablet device for receiving shifts and client confirmation of attendance

Vacancy contact

To find out more about this role or working with Yooralla, please contact Moses Abbatangelo on 0418 317 197 or  moses.abbatangelo@yooralla.com.au

Why Yooralla?

At Yooralla, you’ll work at Victoria’s most established and recognised for purpose disability service provider with more than 100 years of experience offering high quality support services to people with disability. We work in partnership with adults and children, their families and carers to enable them to live the lives they choose. Find out more about what we do.

We believe in diversity, inclusion and equality and are committed to ensuring that our workplaces are a reflection of the Victorian community. We recognise the benefits that diversity and inclusion brings, and in turn encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies. We strongly encourage people with disability, LGBTQIA+ and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands People to apply.

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