Behavioral Health Prevocational Coordinator Full Time NEW

Behavioral Health Prevocational Coordinator $26- $30 per hour

Walnut Creek Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation, a Generations Healthcare facility located in Fresno, CA, is searching for a Behavioral Health Prevocational Coordinator to join our team. This is a wonderful opportunity to provide career and job training skills for conserved adults with moderate to severe mental illnesses in an inpatient residential program. This unique opportunity allows the Prevocational Coordinator the ability to educate residents on a variety of interviewing and workforce topics, including cultivating their skills and knowledge, preparing and motivating them for the responsibilities and practice of work. If you are passionate about helping people with disabilities meet their full potential, then this is the right place for you.

Position Overview:

The Behavioral Health Prevocational Coordinator provides prevocational skills, instruction, and engaging activities to conserved adults with moderate to severe mental illness including job skills training, job support, career planning, and consultation requiring vocational training to foster independence and confidence in job-related tasks.

Education and Experience:

• Preferred: Associate or Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, Counseling, Social Work, or related field
• Previous experience working with children or adults with developmental disabilities and/or severe mental illness.
• Possesses a valid driver’s license with a clear and acceptable driving record (may need to drive and operate facility provided van to transport residents to and from appointments or other outings).

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Maintains the prevocational training program, consistent with STP regulations, policies & procedures, and company philosophy.
• Establishes and maintains job placement opportunities for assigned residents in our Behavioral Health/Special Treatment Program
• Builds strong relationships with residents and Rehab team to implement prevocational program.
• Responsible for managing, securing, and scheduling resident work training placements.
• Encourages residents to meet acceptable standards of work performance.
• Trains individuals on each aspect of the job and all skills necessary to perform the job; discusses and implements job modification with employers if necessary.
• Works with public and district transportation sources on coordination and scheduling of transporting to and from job sites.
• Conducts individual prevocational evaluations, prepares interpretations of those findings, and provides recommendations which will lead to meaningful job training experiences for the resident.
• Creates and implements engaging prevocational social functions such as simulated job fairs and career days.
• Establishes and maintains professional contacts with various businesses to develop and maintain volunteer opportunities for residents to learn essential job functions.
• Provides a comprehensive set of prevocational opportunities on behalf of residents who require vocational services.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Able to manage and provide redirection of potential behaviors of residents in a safe and effective manner.
• Possesses superior interpersonal, human relations, and behavior management skills.

Possesses education and training in prevocational and job training areas.

Benefits:

• We offer a competitive compensation package, healthcare benefits and excellent career growth opportunities. Health Benefits for full-time employees offered 1st of the month following hire date.
• Benefits and incentive programs (including sign-on bonuses, if applicable) are subject to eligibility requirements and may change at any time. Sign-on bonus terms and amounts are subject to change and are based on the employee’s date of hire.

Generations Healthcare was founded upon the belief that caring for the sick, the elderly, and the infirm is a special and sacred stewardship. It is our mission to have this belief reflected in everything we do: in the presentation of our homes, in the professionalism of our staff, and in the daily delivery of care to our residents and their families. It is our purpose that whoever enters a Generations home will be met with kindness, competence, and compassion.

We invite you to make a difference in the lives of others and our residents, who represent a Lifetime of Memories, a Lifetime of Care, and a Lifetime of Love.

Please note: This position requires the successful completion of a background check, pre-employment physical, and drug screening as part of the hiring process.

The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. The Company prohibits unlawful discrimination against employees or applicants based on race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, reproductive health decision making, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, military status, veteran status, uniformed service member status, sexual orientation, transgender identity, citizenship status, pregnancy, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.