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**Mentor Community Services** , a part of the Sevita family, provides community-based services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Here we believe every person has the right to live well, and everyone deserves to have a fulfilling career. You’ll join a mission-driven team and create relationships that motivate us all every day. Join us today, and experience a career well lived.

OUR MISSION AND PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS

The MENTOR Network is a mission-based organization dedicated to providing high quality services to those we serve. Therefore, to deliver on our mission, The Network expects every employee to perform his or her job first and foremost in accordance with the Company’s mission.

SUMMARY

Develops connections to employers and agencies and secures competitive community based jobs for youth and adults referred for vocational support service.

(Note: Job title is for use by vocational and day programs only)

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential function listed below:

+ Contacts community based employers, as an employment specialist to secure paid employment and volunteer educational opportunities for referred individuals.

+ Researches and recommends community employment sites and activities, completes vocational assessments, conducts site evaluations and provides follow up as indicated.

+ Conducts career exploration and vocational opportunities by reaching out to employers and matching employer needs with individuals goals.

+ Assists individuals receiving services in searching and interviewing for employment and provides follow-up support to individual clients once placed in a job.

+ Provides work adjustment training to assist an employment client to improve work skills, work behaviors, interpersonal skills, and with ethics, to maintain employment.

+ Contributes to Individual Service Plans for individuals receiving service that currently have paid and/or volunteer jobs, as well as individuals with job development goals and objectives.

+ Completes required service documentation reviews, meets regularly with individuals and others to provide needed services and supports, and ensures appropriate communication with planning team.

+ Attends individuals related meetings, professionally represents the Program while in the community, and ensures individual rights.

+ Ensures individual’s safety by providing appropriate supervision at job sites.

+ Performs other related duties and activities as required.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

None Required.

Minimum Knowledge and Skills required by the Job

_The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilities required to perform the job:_

_Education and Experience:_

+ Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred

+ Five years of experience in a human services delivery system including two years’ experience in job development

+ An equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed above may be substituted for the above education and experience requirements

_Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations:_

+ None required.

_Other Skills and Abilities:_

+ N/A

_Other Requirements:_

+ Travel as needed.

_Physical Requirements:_

+ **Sedentary work.** Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met **_._**

AMERICAN WITH DISABILITY STATEMENT

External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled, must be able to perform the essential job functions either unaided or with assistance of a reasonable accommodations to be determined on a case by case basis.

Sevita is a leading provider of home and community-based specialized health care. We believe that everyone deserves to live a full, more independent life. We provide people with quality services and individualized supports that lead to growth and independence, regardless of the physical, intellectual, or behavioral challenges they face.

We’ve made this our mission for more than 50 years. And today, our 40,000 team members continue to innovate and enhance care for the 50,000 individuals we serve all over the U.S.

_As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law._