Lutheran Services Florida (LSF) is seeking a talented Employment Specialist who wants to make an impact in the lives of others. The Employment Specialist is responsible for assisting and ensuring effective resettlement, social integration, and self-sufficiency by delivering comprehensive employment services to refugees and entrants in the targeted service area.
Requirements
- Reviews and complete intake forms with demographic information.
- Completes initial assessment in order to develop a service plan.
- Updates plan regularly to document changes.
- Develop an employability plan and a self-sufficiency plan in conjunction with client.
- Assesses and assists clients who are hard to place or needing special services in reaching self-sufficiency.
- Develops referral to additional services as necessary.
- Issue referrals for support services to service providers according to their special needs.
- Completes a household budget to determine necessary wages for self-sufficiency achievement.
- Provide counseling and one-on-one orientation regarding guidelines and responsibilities of the program.
- Updates case files at least once a month to show progress and implementation of the employability plan.
- Provides training to program staff as necessary.
- Responsible for writing case notes in the WTS system if client is a TANF participant.
- Assist all clients, including hard to place clients, in job application, interviews, onboarding and work adjustment.
- Employee is expected to achieve 100% of allocated individual goals as mandated by the funding source and LSF on a monthly basis.
- Ensure that 85% of RCA clients are placed in full time employment within 4 months of intake.
- Responsible to provide assigned staff with job placement forms for data entry and placed in the client’s case file for documentation.
- Responsible to provide assigned staff with 10/30/60/90 day’s follow-up after placement.
- Responsible to provide posts employment counseling and follow up to ensure that clients placed on jobs will remain employed at 90 day follow up.
- Responsible that all documenting goal accomplishments is submitted to the designated staff in a timely manner for data entry and billing purposes.
- Ensure that participants comply with rules and regulations of the program and that compliance is documented.
- Responsible for attending DCF and WTS trainings and meetings, seminars, etc.
- Makes program presentations to employers and other organizations as necessary.
- Act as Acting Manager when manager is out of office.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental and Vision
- Telehealth (24/7 online access to Doctors)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Employer paid life insurance (1X salary)
- 13 paid holidays + 1 floating holiday
- Generous PTO policy (starting at 16 working days a year)
- 403(b) Retirement plan with 3% discretionary employer match OR 3% student loan repayment reimbursement
- Tuition reimbursement
