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Rehabilitation Assistant

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Job ID : 64635

Position : Rehabilitation Assistant

Client : TN DDA (DIDD)

Location : 259 Stewarts Ferry Pike Nashville, Tennessee. 37214.

Duration : 12 Months

Job description :

  • The Department of Disability and Aging (DDA) is seeking candidates for the Behavioral Therapy Specialist (BTS) position at the Harold Jordan Center.
  • DDA operates the Harold Jordan Center located in Nashville.
  • The Harold Jordan Center is a facility that provides 24-hour residential care to support and maintain the physical, intellectual, social, and emotional capabilities of people with an intellectual disability. In addition, the Harold Jordan Center offers a residential program that provides specialized in forensic and behavior stabilization services to persons with an intellectual disability.
  • The Harold Jordan Center is primarily responsible for ensuring the daily health, safety, and welfare of people who reside there while also providing for their daily services and supports.
  • The services typically provided are personalized care, self-help training, ambulating, communication and socialization skills, intensive care for personalized habilitation training in self-help, language development, and motor skills for people with intellectual disabilities.

Job Overview

  • Under immediate supervision, performs vocational, Behavioral Therapy Specialist technical work of routine difficulty; and performs related work as required. An employee in this class works at a developmental center or community home providing vocational, habilitation training, therapy, and supervision for intellectually and developmentally disabled clients.

    • Essential Job Duties

  • Follows the individual support plan to ensure that the needs and the active treatment requirements of persons served are met
  • Communicates with families, conservators, and employers of persons served and the public to share information and meet active treatment requirements.
  • Analyzes medical treatment and training data to detect changes in needs, behavior, and abilities.
  • Analyzes environmental data to ensure the safety and appropriate environment for persons served.
  • Promotes teamwork and working together.
  • Trains other staff on active treatment interventions to meet the requirements of individual support plans of persons served.

    • Schedule

  • Three (3) 12.5-hour shift per week
  • Rotating schedule with Weekends, Nights, and Holidays required
  • Overtime

    • Minimum Qualifications

  • Education and Experience : Education equivalent to graduation from high school and experience equivalent to one year of full-time work in teaching, business sales, and marketing, or providing services for disabled persons.
  • Substitution of Education for Experience : Additional college or technical coursework with at least nine quarter hours in education, a social or behavioral science, industrial arts, nursing, or mental health or human services field from an accredited college, university, or technical school may be substituted for the required experience.
  • Necessary Special Qualifications : A valid vehicle operator's license will be required for employment in this position.
  • All necessary training is provided on-site.
  • Pre-employment Drug Testing and a Criminal Background Check is Required.
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