Bilingual (Spanish) Education & Employment Specialist
About The Position
Welcome to Clarvida's career website! If you are passionate about helping others and enthusiastic about your future, we want you to join our team! Our company is known for an unwavering commitment to exceptional value and recovery-focused, quality care. We are experts in the field of behavioral health care, providing cutting-edge mental health and substance use community-based services and offer a dynamic employment experience! Clarvida offers competitive salaries and benefits, comprehensive on-boarding and job training, a supportive learning environment, ongoing education in the use of evidence-based, promising practices and much more! We have over 30 outpatient behavioral health locations nestled throughout our communities located in Kern County, Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Diego County. Kickstart is a recovery-oriented program with a diverse clinical team specially trained to educate the community, treat youth and assist families in preventing psychosis. We serve young people ages 10 to 25 (Medi-cal eligible and no insurance), their families, and their social networks to build support around the youth and promote success in relationships, education and employment. Kickstart strives to keep hope alive through education and early intervention. Pay:$24.00-$28.00/hr SUMMARY The employment specialist acts as the liaison between the client and the employers/representatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university and a minimum of two years' experience on the job coaching, job development or educational services or five (5) or more years' experience in job coaching, job development or educational services.
- Valid Driver’s license and proof of automobile insurance
- Knowledge and experience with job and educational/vocational coordination for transitional age youth is required
- Excellent organizational skills, interpersonal skills, computer skills and communication skills are a must.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain education/job bank records
- Assess clients for placement
- Refer clients to applicable resources
- Ensure one on one education and employment support is provided
- Maintain client records and provide follow up contact for successful placement assurance
- Provide job readiness training to clients
- Other duties as assigned or necessary to support the program and/or the company
- Provide the best customer care possible
- Identify and build upon the strengths of consumers, coworkers, and the communities we serve.
- Support consumer’s steps toward Recovery Wellness.
- Create an organizational culture that respects and celebrates the diversity of our consumers.
- Value learning as an ongoing process that enables us to better service our consumers and establishes our leadership in the industry.
- Research and utilize our industry’s best practices and analyze our own services to ensure the possible outcomes.
Benefits
- Paid vacation days that increase with tenure
- Separate sick leave that rolls over each year
- Up to 10 Paid holidays
- Medical, Dental, Vision benefit plan options
- DailyPay- Access to your daily earnings without waiting for payday
- Training, Development and Continuing Education Credits for licensure requirements
- 401K
- Free licensure supervision
- Employee Assistance program
- Pet Insurance
- Perks @Clarvida- national discounts on shopping, travel, Verizon, and entertainment
- Mileage reimbursement
- Company cellphone
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
