Services Professional

Department

TEACCH - Employment Services-427481

Other

Human Services Prog Spprt Tech - Advanced

Permanent Staff (SHRA)

CHAPEL HILL, NC

To learn more about the pay band for this branch and role, please see the Career Banding rates spreadsheet.

Our mission is to improve the health and well‑being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in patient care, education, and research. Patient care:
We promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.

Education:

We prepare tomorrow’s healthcare professionals and biomedical researchers from all backgrounds by facilitating learning within innovative and integrated curricula and team‑oriented interprofessional education to ensure a highly skilled workforce. Research:
We develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers and resources. We provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our university to support outstanding research. We foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic and population research.

The purpose of this position is to assist individuals, who have an autism spectrum diagnosis, to meet employment needs. This position further involves coordination of responsibilities involving planning program services/activities, monitoring, evaluating and modifying program activities; and developing resources. As part of the TEACCH and Employment Services philosophy, all staff members—including administrative staff—will work directly with adults with autism as part of their job.

This position is not center based, and all services are provided in the community. Travelers may be required to go great distances, sometimes at a moment’s notice. Individuals in this position are required to work alone in the community providing supports to autistic adults. In addition to working with autistic adults, we work closely with the other support systems of the individual, including but not limited to, additional family members, employers, other provider agencies, medical staff, residential providers, and local mental health agencies and other providers of funding for the services provided by TEACCH Employment Services.

As a result, members of the staff must display good communication skills to maintain positive relationships with the community s position works with a local school system to provide:
1) assessments for all students in the nonstandard course of study,
2) vocational counseling to all students, and
3) development of internship opportunities for the students in the community. In any given year, there are 80-120 students receiving services and in various stages of this process. With 4 people in this role, a typical position would have a caseload of 20-30 students. Access to each student varies and makes strong organization and documentation a must. Self‑organization to complete all these activities must consider the school’s required classroom education for each student and requires a lot of coordination between teachers, transition facilitators, administration, transportation, families/caregivers, and community‑based employers.

They write up the numerous services they provide and give feedback to multidisciplinary teams and family members of students to help guide the student’s educational services. Their caseload changes from month to month as students go in and out of various service components and have changes in schedule. They coordinate their schedules with those of the school to maximize contact hours.

They perform all their duties with minimal to no supervision. They must write up paperwork to ensure the deliverables are billable to the school system and meet requirements of documentation for Vocational Rehabilitation Pre‑Employment Transition Services.

Demonstrated possession of the competencies necessary to perform the work.

Knowledge of the autistic population.

Experience working with people on the autism spectrum or with intellectual/developmental disabilities.

Valid driver’s license.

Must be able to work in person and perform the same job duties as the client, with or without accommodation; demonstration work skills is a part of this position.

Evening work occasionally, Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens, Night work occasionally, Overtime occasionally, Valid NC Driver’s License, Weekend work occasionally