POSITION: Workforce Development Coach

DEPARTMENT: McKercher Program - Skill-Building Unit

REPORTS TO: McKercher Unit Manager

POSITIONS SUPERVISED: Skill-Building Team Members

STATUS: Full-Time, Non-exempt/hourly

Pay Range:

Minimum: $15.00

Midpoint: $18.75

Maximum: $22.50

Why work here:?

At MRC Industries, we offer a dynamic work environment that fosters innovation, values diversity, and promotes professional growth. We are dedicated to empowering individuals with disabilities through meaningful employment and community engagement. Join a team committed to fostering inclusivity and making a positive impact on people's lives.

Summary of Responsibilities:

Provides skill-building opportunities through paid production work, trades, retail and/or food service experiences, community-based work sites and volunteer opportunities that ensure skill-building team members served access and develop relationships within the community. Promotes community inclusion, independence and leadership to assigned team members. Provides supervision and training and follows team members' served objectives, behavior plans, and interventions and follows procedures for ensuring safety in the community. Provides transportation to team members served during hours of operation. Provides support, supervision, restroom assistance and personal care as needed to specified team members.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Engage all team members served in meaningful and productive activities at all times; plan skill building activities.
• Provide training and support for team members served to help increase skill development at work sites and volunteer sites in the community and/or during paid production work, trades, retail and/or food service experiences.
• Provide community-based programming, ensuring team members served access and develop relationships with their community.
• Provide skill building opportunities that promote community inclusion, independence and productivity.
• Maintain quality control standards established by the customer.
• Manage assigned work effectively for work completion and report/alert supervisor to any problems.
• Provide coverage as requested with morning attendance, lunch time, bus monitoring, and restroom assistance.
• Intervene with team members displaying inappropriate behaviors and when required, use approved physical intervention techniques.
• Assume responsibility for the health and safety of individuals served, maintaining a clean and safe environment and following procedures to ensure safety within MRC facilities and the community.
• Provide transportation to team members served during operational hours as required, adhering to all traffic laws and rules of the road.
• Follow specific team members' served objectives, behavior plans, and/or interventions.
• Daily document team members' served progress towards identified goals.
• Follow established procedures for filling out daily billable sheets and maintain accurate records of hours and production for each team member assigned.
• Communicate effectively and respectfully with team members and staff in the provision of services.
• Cross train and serve as back up in the delivery of Community Living Supports services.
• Attend regular and special staff meetings upon request.
• Complete incident and accident reports in a timely fashion and in accordance with agency policy.
• Assure the rights of team members served are protected in accordance with Michigan Mental Health code and agency policy.
• Actively support and be knowledgeable about 1) culturally competent, recovery-based practices, 2) person-centered planning as a shared decision-making process with the individual who defines his or her own life goals and is assisted in developing a unique path toward those goals and 3) a trauma informed culture to aid team members in their recovery process.

Non-Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assess team member strengths and barriers and communicate these to program coordinators.
• If assigned to medication administration, administer medications in accordance with agency guidelines.
• Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable team members with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Experience or exposure coordinating activities in a group setting required.
• Education and/or experience working with individuals (team members) with disabilities and/or mental illness preferred.
• Must have problem solving skills and judgment sufficient to recognize and initiate appropriate response to emergency and non-emergency situations independently.
• Must have written communication skills sufficient to write on team member goals and objectives.
• Must have sufficient reading skills to read consumer schedules and goals.
• Must have human relation skills sufficient to interact effectively with a wide range of people.
• Lived experiences with behavioral health are desired
• Must be able to work unsupervised.
• Experience in tending to the personal care needs of individuals preferred.
• Must have a valid Michigan driver's license, excellent driving record, and availability of licensed, insured vehicle for use on the job required. Ability to obtain a basic chauffeur's license if required.
• A criminal records check, recipient rights screen and drug screen are required for this position. Must be able to obtain federal security clearance.

Work Conditions:

• Must be able to tolerate hot temperatures in the summer and cold temperatures in the winter.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to squat, reach, lift, push, pull, bend, stoop and kneel and stand for extended periods of time.
• Physical ability to provide assistance to team members served with lifting and transferring, personal care, and physical intervention when necessary.
• This position requires exerting 25 pounds force occasionally and up to 15 pounds frequently.