Adult Group Home Support Staff - ETTA

ETTA is seeking full-time, part-time, and on-call Independent Living Advocates to encourage community inclusion for our community members with disabilities here in the Greater Los Angeles, CA area. This position offers a competitive salary and well-rounded benefits. Can you be patient and flexible while working with individuals with disabilities? Can you provide resources and support to increase their independence? Are you kind, compassionate, and motivating? Are you looking for life-long friends? If you want a career where you can make a difference in the lives of those with developmental disorders and intellectual disabilities, apply today!

ABOUT ETTA

ETTA serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We also help their families as one of the premier providers of such services on the West Coast. ETTA's services include residential housing, case management, employment training and placement, educational services, and social services. Our mission is to provide programs and services that enable people with disabilities and the families who love them, to live fully-enriched, independent, included, and active lives as members of the Los Angeles community. We change mindsets, raise awareness, increase sensitivity, and provide inspiration. We elevate lives and train leaders with our community of hope, warmth, support, and expertise.

We know that it takes the best to provide such successful services to our clients. That's why we not only provide great pay and fantastic benefits, but also a supportive, team-centered environment where the learning never stops!

A DAY IN THE LIFE AS AN INDEPENDENT LIVING ADVOCATE

As an Independent Living Advocate, you assist persons with disabilities by addressing and overcoming barriers to independent living through needs identification, goal setting, and supportive services. Using your motivational interviewing skills, you provide benefits coaching and help clients to understand how increased income will impact their benefits and encourage them to find employment. You provide advocacy, information, and referral services to job-seekers with disabilities who are enrolled in vocational rehabilitation services. Because of this, you work closely with the vocational rehabilitation services staff.

You also see to other basic needs that create barriers to employment. It is rewarding to connect people to resources that address these basic needs such as housing or financial resources to help them live more independently. To assist people in setting and meeting their own goals, you educate and coach them on financial literacy and help them to craft both short-term and long-term independent living goals.

Your organizational skills assist you in documenting case notes and communications with vocational rehabilitation counselors. The hard work and passion you bring to work every day as an Independent Living Specialist assist you in providing a necessary service which increases employment for individuals with disabilities.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Possess or willing to obtain CPR/First Aid and CPI certifications
• 21+ years of age
• Ability to pass a background and drug test
• A valid driver's license, a clean driving record, and proof of vehicle insurance coverage
• Ability to provide two verifiable (non-family) references
• Some travel required

Can you support our motto of independence, inclusion, and growth? Can you confidently pass routine evaluations? Do you have reliable transportation and the willingness to transport clients in your personal vehicle? Can you communicate effectively, both orally and written? Are you a self-starter that is able to work independently? Are you willing to work past scheduled hours if the next staff member has not yet arrived? Do you have strong organizational skills? Are you able to communicate easily through both written and verbal skills? If so, you might just be the Independent Living Advocate that we're looking for!

WORK SCHEDULE

Full-time, part-time, and on-call day, evening, weekend, and overnight schedules are available. You must be able to work at least one weekend shift.

ARE YOU READY TO JOIN OUR TEAM?

If you feel that you would be right for this Independent Living Advocate position, please fill out our initial 3-minute, mobile-friendly application so that we can review your information. We look forward to meeting you!