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Supported Living Specialist
Lakeland
Make a difference in your career! Give back and get excellent benefits.
The Supported Living Specialist provides Peace River Center staff and clients assistance as needed. These services will include finding and securing individual apartments, linkage to community resources as appropriate, and assisting with independent living skills/needs. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as good interpersonal and problem-solving skills, are strongly recommended for this role.
Essential Duties/Requirements/Activities:
- Ability to abide by principles of EEO compliance and a workplace of dignity and respect.
- Ability to work cooperatively in a group and/or team setting.
- Ability to take guidance and direction from supervisors.
- Ability to arrive to work and ready to work on time.
- Ability to professionally communicate with other employees and outside vendors, as required.
- Ability to show respect to all others.
- Comply with all Peace River Center policies and procedures except those for which the employee gives notice of the need for reasonable accommodation and for which the Center make such accommodation.
- Attend all scheduled work hours, meetings, training, and other center functions, including on call as required.
- Help recipients find and secure individual apartments.
- Visit the recipients’ apartments to teach functional living skills one – on – one.
- Assist recipients in accessing community resources as appropriate
- As necessary, transport recipients in Peace River Center van.
- Assist recipients in establishing and obtaining personal goals and objectives
- Develop individual service plans.
- Teach recipients functional living skills needed to establish and maintain community residence.
- Teach the recipients problem solving and conflict resolution skills.
- Manage productivity hours to meet requirements for direct service with recipients.
- Assist recipients in managing their personal finances.
For complete job requirements, please visit our application page.
Qualifications: High School Diploma or GED. Six months of residential services experience preferred. Peace River Center is a Drug Free workplace and will require an approved DCF Level 2 Background clearance. Be sure to check our job application website for the complete job details.
