Community Life Coach - Fort Collins - M-Th 8a-4p, Fri 8a-11a

Ablelight • Fort Collins, CO

1d • Onsite

About The Position

AbleLight is hiring a Community Life Coach to deliver person-centered care and services in a day program setting. The role focuses on empowering individuals with developmental disabilities to achieve their full potential by pioneering life-changing services that help them thrive.

Requirements

• High School degree or equivalent preferred
• Previous experience in a similar role and responsibility, work, volunteer, community role, or educational setting that focuses on serving and helping others.
• Travel/Flexibility Drivers’ licensure required if role involves driving others.
• Adult CPR and first aid certification

Responsibilities

• Deliver person centered care and services to those we are blessed to serve.
• Follow established plans created in collaboration with the person we support, parents & guardians, external clinical or local/state representative & providers, internal partners in quality, and operational leadership.
• Leverage our health information technology, human resource technology fully and ensure timely, comprehensive, and objective documentation.
• Fields questions and provides support and guidance daily to Community Life Coaches.
• Appropriately escalates to operational leadership.
• Identify community resources and activities pertaining to the interest and abilities of those we serve.
• Facilitate the participation in typical and integrated activities, events, and organizations in the local community in ways like other people of the same age and interest.
• Accompany participants to activities, if needed, and facilitate involvement and maintain or enhance personal independence.
• Communicate progress, successes, and challenges to guardians / care providers as needed.
• Ensure personal safety of participants on caseload.
• Maintain electronic records including progress of goals identified on participant’s person-centered plan, incidents, challenges, etc.
• Help with tours and orientations of new clients and their guardians to programs.
• Provide personal care and/ or other support as necessary (i.e., toileting, medication assistance, etc.).
• Tracks and documents all attendance and transportation, providing that data to the Program Manager for billing.
• On an as needed basis she revises all pickup/drop off routes.
• Daily, checks the phone for any messages/client call offs and communicates that to the team so that route adjustments are made.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits starting the first of the month following 30 days of employment and access to Teledoc
• 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan with 3.5% matching contributions
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Savings Account
• Basic Life, AD&D, STD, and LTD insurance
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Tuition Reimbursements
• Any Day Pay (Dayforce Wallet, access to pay as soon as earned at no additional cost)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees