CommunitySpecialist

**Scheduled Weekly Hours:** 32 **Schedule** : Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (9:00am–4:00pm) & Friday (9:00am–1:00pm) **Starting Pay:** $15.00 **Education We 're Looking for:** High School Diploma (Required) **Certifications We 're Looking For:** Drivers License (Valid) - USA **Experience We 're Looking For: ** Experience working with adults with a mental health diagnosis and/or developmental disabilities | Not Required **Job Description Summary:** The Community Specialist is primarily responsible for developing a positive relationship with the individual receiving services and their family in a work, home, school, or community setting while assisting them in achieving their personal dreams and goals as designated in the individual goal plans, as well as providing periodic relief to the caregiver. **What You 'll Do:** • Assess each person receiving services for their hopes, dreams, and desires and provide supports that facilitate achievement. • Ensure that the rights of each person receiving services are protected and promoted at all times. Assist people in developing advocacy skills, participating in advocacy efforts, and utilizing personal advocates, as well as, provide periodic relief to the caregiver. • Serve as a resource for individual receiving services on community agencies, services, and supports that can meet identified needs/goals. • Supervise, educate, and monitor (as needed) individual receiving services in work, home, school, or community type settings. • Provide one-on-one support as needed to meet the emotional, physical, and medical needs of each person supported. • Maintain a safe environment for community, employees, and individual receiving services by practicing safety procedures. • Facilitate person-centered, effective, positive relationships with individual receiving services using positive approaches that promote self-determination in all areas of life. • Provide input and recommendations into assessment and planning processes, and deve