Life Skills Coach

Simple Steps LLC•Palestine, TX

About The Position

Simple Steps, LLC currently has a Life Skills Coach position open in the Palestine, TX area. The primary focus of the Life Skills Coach is to help make life more rewarding for our Veterans with neurological disorders, physical disabilities, and traumatic brain injuries by providing the delivery of high-quality home and community services. Life Skills Coaches accomplish these results by effectively supporting and carrying out quality client care plans, ensuring resources are engaged effectively to meet client needs, orienting/educating clients and client's families about health care plan services and procedures, supporting accurate and complete documentation, and supplying timely data for generating accurate invoices. Our Life Skills Coaches come together in a team effort with Case Managers and family members to best serve Veterans through dynamic social, recreational, wellness, educational, and individualized life skills training and activities in the home and community. The Life Skills Coach reports to their assigned Care Coordinator.

Requirements

High School Diploma
Resume
CPR/AED/First Aid Certification (American Red Cross or American Heart Association only)
Social Security Card
Driver's License
Auto Insurance (100k/300k Bodily Injury)

Nice To Haves

Experience with physical and cognitive impairments/disabilities
Experience with Traumatic Brain Injury
Experience with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Veteran/Military Experience

Responsibilities

Must be able to travel to current or prospective clients’ homes
Must be able and willing to transport client(s) during client visits
Must have reliable transportation, a valid driver’s license and agency-required auto liability insurance (100k/300k Bodily Injury)
Must be able to communicate with health care professionals, clients, families, and the general public through verbal and written communication
Must have access to a private personal laptop or desktop computer for HIPAA compliance
Track SMART goals and progress through weekly documentation using Microsoft Word, Excel, and Adobe Reader
Implement patient care plans through home and community goal-related activities
Able to work independently, manage one’s own time and the time of client(s)
Attending community activities
Outdoor activities
Assisting with organization planning, cognitive awareness, doctor's appointments, household management, etc.
Ability to drive client
Be able to lift 50Lbs
Walking