At Monarch, we work together to provide life-changing care in communities across North Carolina and Rhode Island. As a team, we provide hope, promote wellness, and empower individuals and families impacted by mental illness, substance use disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and traumatic brain injury.
You deserve a positive and encouraging work environment - a place where you can do your best work and grow as a professional. That is just what you’ll find at Monarch. Here, we care for people, including our team members. We offer a comprehensive, competitive benefits package that supports full-time and part-time team members and their families. More than just a job, this opportunity with Monarch will give you room to spread your wings and grow because we believe in promoting from within and developing future leaders.
The Employment Support Professional, LTSS is primarily responsible for supporting people to achieve their personal dreams and goals through obtaining and maintaining competitive employment within their community.
• Help make dreams take flight through personal outcome measures, skills training, and the development of individualized dream plans for designated individuals.
• Identify organizations Monarch can partner with to provide volunteer and/or employment opportunities to individuals. Nurture and maintain strong relationships with those organizations.
• Support individuals to think about long-term employment goals, work history, strengths, personal culture, justice involvement, and other factors relative to the individual’s current vocational goal. Complete and update career profile for each individual with information from the person supported, mental health practitioners, and with permission, family members or past employers.
• Assist individuals in learning how their benefits will be affected by earned income.
• Discuss individuals’ preference for disclosure of psychiatric status to employers, including possible costs and benefits and specific information to be disclosed.
• Develop holistic, integrated interventions.
• Identify services, resources, and accommodations as needed to assist individuals who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing, those with Limited English Proficiency (LEP), and those who are blind and visually impaired.
• Coordinate services and work with the individual and team in the development of an individual employment plan and plan updates.
• Perform Job Development activities directed toward positions that are individualized to each person supported, following the principles and procedures of IPS.
High School Diploma (Required)
Drivers License (Valid) - USA
Experience working with adults with a mental health diagnosis and/or developmental disabilities | Not Required
This is a PRN position. Shift coverage on an as-needed basis.
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Monarch offers opportunities as diverse as the people we support and the communities we serve. Monarch is an equal opportunity employer and we are firmly committed to supporting and celebrating all forms of diversity.
Monarch does not accept paper applications. Any person with a disability who needs any reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act to apply for a position or otherwise to participate in Monarch job search or selection process, should contact HR@MonarchNC.org or call (704) 986-1550.
This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties and responsibilities to be performed. You will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other duties and responsibilities upon the request of a supervisor. This job description is subject to revision at the discretion of Monarch.