Community Living Counselor
Community Living Counselor
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Join the dedicated team at Home of Guiding Hands as a Community Living Counselor/Tailored Day Worker and help adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities unlock their full potential and live more independently. As a Community Living Counselor/Tailored Day Worker you wont just have a jobyoull have the chance to be a guide a mentor and a friend.
Imagine your week:
Helping a client learn to budget and pay bills giving them the confidence to manage their own finances.
Exploring the local communityvisiting the zoo volunteering at a local organization or taking a class together.
Teaching essential life skills like grocery shopping meal preparation and navigating public transportation.
Supporting someone as they achieve their personal goals and build a more fulfilling life.
This is a chance to gain valuable experience in social services while empowering others to live life on their own terms. If youre a compassionate and reliable self-starter we want to hear from you.
Your Day-to-Day: Tasks & Responsibilities
As a Community Living Counselor your primary role is to empower clients to achieve their goals. This is a hands-on position where youll make a tangible difference every day.
What Youll Be Doing:
Goal-Oriented Support: Schedule plan and conduct visits with assigned clients to carry out their personalized goals (Individual Service Plan - ISP).
Life Skills Training: Provide one-on-one training in essential life skills including:
Paying bills and budgeting
Grocery shopping cooking and meal preparation
Accessing medical and dental services
Laundry and household management
Navigating government benefits
Building healthy relationships and ensuring personal safety
Client Advocacy & Planning:
Collaborate with clients to develop their goals.
Prepare and update ISP reports on a semi-annual basis.
Schedule and attend ISP meetings serving as a strong advocate for your clients needs and wishes.
Team Communication: Maintain ongoing communication with the interdisciplinary team to ensure coordinated and effective program services.
Documentation: Keep required client and program documentation up-to-date and accurate.
Community Travel: Travel throughout San Diego or Imperial County to meet with clients in their family homes and other community locations.
Qualifications
What Were Looking For
Required Education: A high school diploma or GED is a must.
Experience (A Plus!): While not required experience working with people with special needs (personal volunteer or paid) is a plus. Experience navigating community resources like Social Security Section 8 and Medi-Cal is also a bonus.
Eligibility: You must be at least 18 years old at the time of hire and be able to receive a criminal record clearance from the DOJ.
Transportation: A valid California Drivers license a clean driving record and at least two years of licensed driving experience are essential. You will need a safe and reliable vehicle to transport clients and must maintain current adequate auto insurance.
Certifications: CPR/First Aid certification is required. If you dont have it well provide the training for new hires.
Communication Skills: You should be able to read write understand and speak English proficiently.
Tech Savvy: You should be comfortable accessing websites and apps logging into web-based platforms and using email and text messaging to send and receive information.
Core Abilities:
Relationship Building: Ability to form positive supportive and professional working relationships.
Individualized Support: Capable of meeting clients needs in a personalized way.
Independence: A self-starter who can complete assignments without constant supervision.
Judgment: Possesses good judgment and decision-making skills.
Reliability: Highly reliable and follows through on commitments.
Time Management: Able to effectively organize your time and prioritize your schedule.
Physical Requirements/Work Environment
The work environment for this position involves working with a variety of people in their homes and in the community. While performing the duties of the job the employee is regularly required to see talk hear walk bend stoop sit stand reach and lift objects weighing up to ten pounds repeatedly during a shift.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement
Home of Guiding Hands is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race religion color national origin sex (including pregnancy sexual orientation or gender identity/expression) age marital status status as a protected veteran among other things or status as a qualified individual with disability.
About HGH
Home of Guiding Hands is a non-profit organization that was established in 1967 by a small group of dedicated and ambitious community members. The Mission of HGH is to improve the lives of those we serve. We support children and adults in San Diego and Imperial Counties with intellectual and developmental disabilities such as Down syndrome epilepsy autism and cerebral palsy. We provide a full continuum of care including residential care in specialized group homes independent living support respite care and adult foster home services. Additionally we provide early childhood assessments and services tailored day support Life Planning workshops county-wide transportation services and on-site activities at our resource center.
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Employment Type
Part-Time
