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3/31/2023 (8:00 PM EDT)

23-02553

Rehabilitation Care Aide

Employment Type

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

Hiring Agency

Education & Labor Cabinet | Department of Workforce Development

Location

8412 Westport Rd
Louisville, KY 40242 USA

Description

The Education and Labor Cabinet fosters opportunities for lifelong learning, training and career services while protecting the well-being of Kentucky’s workforce. Our mission is to promote early childhood through 12th grade, post secondary education, adult education and credentialed training to provide lifelong opportunities for Kentuckians. Use of resources and data to improve the prosperity of Kentucky’s workforce. Actively engage employers to drive Kentucky’s workforce system by creating opportunities for and removing employment barriers for Kentuckians. Create a culture of accountability to promote best practices, fairness, and compliance with Kentucky's wage and hour, employees’ safety, health and worker's compensation requirements.

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.

This position will work primarily third shift hours, with weekend requirements, to provide residential support services for McDowell Center students and will be the primary professional to staff the McDowell Center dormitory during the third shift hours.

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.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

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 Chris Milburn at Chris.milburn@ky.gov

An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D