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The Opportunity: Employment Specialist
Job Type: Full-time, Hybrid WFH Day (60- 80% in office, 10% home)
Pay: $52,000/year
Who We Are VOAMASS gives members of the community who need help the most the services, support, and self-esteem they need to create a fresh start. At VOAMASS, our dedicated teams are committed to serving the whole person.
What We Do Through our powerful integrated behavioral health care model, we bring together vast resources from a diverse team of caring staff to help each client meet their personal goals. The care we provide paves the way for greater opportunity and second chances by focusing on the critical pillars towards a healthy life: behavioral health, financial stability, and safe housing.
As an Employment Specialist you’ll have a dynamic and critical role providing employment support services, ongoing case management, and linkages to employment opportunities for persons served. As an Employment Specialist you will coordinate with the integrated team across VOAMASS to identify and coordinate services for veterans who are unemployed or underemployed. The Homeless Veteran Reintegration Program measures success on rapid retraining and employment. This is an exciting fast paced work environment, and no single case presented to you will be the same!
Hours and Location:
- This a salary position, 40 hours per week, with 60-80% of time committed in our Mass Bay Veteran Center in Somerville, Ma.
- Travel to outreach events or walk-in hours at partnering agencies in the Boston and metro areas is required.
- Work hours are flexible at the discretion of the Program Director (7am – 3pm; 8am – 4pm; 9am – 5pm).
- Ability to work one late shift (11am – 7 pm) per week preferred.
Employment Specialist Key Responsibilities:
- Provide service coordination between integrated care team and community partners, for persons served and their families.
- Assist and teach resume writing skills; mock interviews; career search techniques. Create Individual Employment Plans (IEPs) and help veterans reassess and adapt their plan while enrolled in the program.
- Finding workforce training opportunities for veterans and helping them enroll.
- Connect with other providers, employers, and employment placement agencies, for referrals and linkages.
- Co-enrolling veterans into Mass Hire (DVOP) after assessment
- Develop, maintain, and document a strong network of referral sources designed to generate positive outcomes for persons served.
- Travel to employment sites to support persons served, monitor progress and address any barriers identified.
- Communicate effectively with client’s integrated care team and VOAMASS programs to rapidly address and correct issues with services or supports- especially employment and education.
- Ensure that person served receive services that support continued employment; addressing assessed needs, promote healthy decision-making, securing financial independence and promoting relationships.
- Participate in program and professional supervision, attend required staff meetings and trainings, and contribute to team-based collaborative planning. Follows professional standards and ensures that all services are documented and maintenance of persons served records is completed.
- Other duties as needed and requested.
- Communicate the needs of clients within the agency and to external agencies that offer assistance to both veterans and nonveterans
- Finding care for non-VA eligible veterans including Mass Health enrollment
- Conducting National Outcome Measures with veterans requesting care during intake, and at 30, 60 and, 90 day follow up points.
The Employment Specialist is about making a difference in the lives of the people we serve. As an Employment Specialist you will bring the following qualifications:
- A minimum bachelor’s degree in education, psychology, rehabilitative counseling, or related human service field, preferred.
- Proficiency in Excel, and the full MS Office suite; working experience with MS Teams preferred
- Demonstrated ability to work independently;
- Ability to communicate both in writing and orally. Ability to read, analyze and interpret.
- Strong interpersonal skills required to interact with all organizational levels; demonstrated ability to work appropriately with confidential information;
- This position will require independent travel between worksites, thus requires a valid Driver’s License and insurance coverage on personal vehicle at all times during employment.
- Must be able to satisfactorily pass correctional facility background clearance process including attending the required orientations through the correctional facility.
- Experience serving in the military, and personal experience using veteran support systems is required. Must have familiarity with military culture, structure, and services.
Since 1934, VOAMASS has provided critical services to the residents of the Commonwealth. From pioneering early residential treatment programs in the 1960’s to leading today in the field of mental health programming, VOAMASS can be counted on to tackle our greatest challenges.
VOAMASS is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
For full-time employees, which includes our Employment Specialist our comprehensive and generous benefits package includes:
- Competitive Health, Vision and Dental insurance
- Flexible Spending and Health Reimbursement Account
- Employer paid Life and Long-Term Disability
- 403(b) matching retirement plans
- Tuition Remission Programs
- Loan Forgiveness (PSLF Program)
- Fitness/Wellness reimbursement
- Employee Discount Program
- Pet Insurance
- Blue Care Line (24/7 Nurse hotline)
- Generous Vacation, Sick, and Personal Time Benefits
- 13 Paid Holidays
- Employee Referral Bonus with no annual cap
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