Rehabilitation istant

Job Id: 63170

Position: Rehabilitation Assistant

Department: TN DDA (DIDD)

Location: 259 Stewarts Ferry Pike Nashville TN 37214

Duration: 9 Months

Shift 1: 6:30 AM to 7:30 PM

Shift 2: 6:30 PM to 7:30 AM

Schedule:

Three (3) 12.5hour shift per week

Rotating schedule with Weekends Nights and Holidays required

Overtime

• The Department of Disability and Aging (DDA) is seeking candidates for the Behavioural Therapy Specialist (BTS) position at the Harold Jordan Center.
• DDA operates the Harold Jordan Center located in Nashville.
• The Harold Jordan Center is a facility that provides 24hour residential care to support and maintain the physical intellectual social and emotional capabilities of people with an intellectual disability.
• In addition the Harold Jordan Center offers a residential program that provides specializes in forensic and behavior stabilization services to persons with an intellectual disability.
• The Harold Jordan Center is primarily responsible for ensuring the daily health safety and welfare of people who reside there while also providing for their daily services and support.
• The services typically provided are personalized care selfhelp training ambulating communication and socialization skills intensive care for personalized habitation training in selfhelp language development and motor skills for people with intellectual disabilities.

Job Overview

• Under immediate supervision performs vocational Behavioural Therapy Specialist technical work of routine difficulty; and performs related work as required.
• An employee in this class works at a developmental center or community home providing vocational habitation training therapy and supervision for intellectually and developmentally disabled clients.

Essential Job Duties:

• Follows the individual support plan to ensure that the needs and the active treatment requirements of persons served are met
• Communicates with families conservators and employers of persons served and the public to share information and meet active treatment requirements.
• Analyses medical treatment and training data to detect changes in needs behavior and abilities.
• Analyses environmental data to ensure the safety and appropriate environment for persons served.
• Promotes teamwork and working together.
• Trains other staff on active treatment interventions to meet the requirements of individual support plans of persons served.

Minimum Qualifications :

• Education and Experience: Education equivalent to graduation from high school and experience equivalent to one year of fulltime work in teaching business sales and marketing or providing services for disabled persons.
• Substitution of Education for Experience: Additional college or technical coursework with at least nine quarter hours in education a social or behavioral science industrial arts nursing or mental health or human services field from an accredited college university or technical school may be substituted for the required experience.
• Necessary Special Qualifications: A valid vehicle operators license will be required for employment in this position.
• All necessary training is provided onsite.
• Preemployment Drug Testing and a Criminal Background Check is Required.