Rehabilitation Care Aide

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8/24/2024 (8:00 PM EDT)

24-04950

Rehabilitation Care Aide

Salary

$2,801.76 Monthly

Employment Type

EXECUTIVE BRANCH | FULL TIME | ELIGIBLE FOR OVERTIME PAY | 18A | 40.0 HR/WK

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Hiring Agency

Education & Labor Cabinet | Department of Workforce Development

Location

8412 Westport Road
Louisville, KY 40242 USA

Description

The Education and Labor Cabinet’s mission is to educate, prepare and train Kentucky's current and future workforce. Our goal is to create and make continuous improvements to an education and workforce system that prepares Kentuckians for the 21st century workforce, while helping businesses find the skilled workers they need to compete and create jobs in the Commonwealth.

The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation empowers individuals with disabilities to maximize employment, achieve economic self-sufficiency and independence, and to contribute back to society. We also help businesses and employers recruit, retain and accommodate employees with disabilities.

We are seeking a Rehabilitation Care Aide to perform work in the care and training of consumers with disabilities in an educational rehabilitation facility and performs other duties as required.

This position will work the 3rd shift schedule with weekend requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitors facility consumer dormitory and/or consumer lobby areas to ensure vocational rehabilitation consumers adhere to facility policies and procedures concerning their living conditions, their clothing and dress expectations, their personal habit expectations, their conduct, and to ensure they adhere to policies and procedures put into place to ensure their safety and the safety of others.
• Monitors consumers' activities and behaviors and intervenes when necessary to ensure that the living conditions and overall atmosphere are maintained so that consumers are able to fully participate in scheduled program activities; completes reports concerning consumers' behaviors and notifies staff of unusual behaviors or behaviors that need to be addressed.
• Encourages consumers to adhere to scheduled program activities that are in place to provide social, vocational, and/or motor skill development; assists consumers with communications with family members while they are residing at the facility; answers incoming calls; and distributes mail.
• Assists consumers with obtaining consumable supplies when they are needed; assists consumers with mobility limitations when needed.
• Participates in emergency drills.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

This position will have access to confidential and sensitive information. The successful candidate will be required to ensure the safeguarding and security of all confidential and sensitive information and will be required to complete trainings, sign acknowledgments, follow all policies, and adhere to all statutes and requirements pertaining to the safeguarding and security of confidential and sensitive information while employed and after employment ends.

The Education and Labor Cabinet (ELC) participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the United States. ELC will only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9. For more information on E-Verify, or if you believe that ELC has violated its E-Verify responsibilities, please contact the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at 999-897-7781 or https://www.e-verify.gov/.

Minimum Requirements

Working Conditions

Work is performed in a dormitory or rehabilitation care facility.

Probationary Period

This job has an initial and promotional probationary period of 6 months, except as provided in KRS 18A.111.

If you have questions about this advertisement, please contact Michelle Sears-Ward at [email protected].

An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D