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CRIL advocates and provides resources for people with disabilities to improve the quality of life and make communities fully accessible.
Travel Trainer
Summary of Position:
Hours: 35 hours a week, Full-Time, Benefitted, Non-Exempt
Salary: $24 an hour
Location: Hayward
Mission: CRIL advocates and provides resources for people with disabilities to improve the quality of life and make communities fully accessible.
Job Summary: Travel Trainer is a full - time position. This position is teaching people with disabilities to travel independently on public transportation. Must be able to assess needs and develop a travel plan and teach individual to ride transportation. Evaluate, prepare and maintain mandatory progress notes on assigned trainee.
Supervised By: This position is supervised by CRIL’s Program Director II.
Positions Supervised: None.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Meet with trainees to assess needs and to develop a travel plan to meet those needs.
2. Provide instruction and assistance to assigned trainees on an ongoing basis.
3. Provide information and referral regarding local public transit resources throughout the Bay Area.
4. Prepare, implement, maintain and submit accurate independent transit plan for each trainee.
5. Collaborate with A.C. Transit, BART, San Francisco Bay Ferry, Capitol Corridor, and trainees regarding questions, issues or concerns.
6. Evaluate, prepare and maintain mandatory progress notes on trainees.
7. Write and submit monthly reports containing statistical information such as number of trainees served as well as type of service provided.
8. Perform regular follow-up with trainees.
9. Establish and maintain effective working relationship with trainers, trainees, etc.
10. Inform Supervisor of all relative issues.
11. Other duties as assigned
REQUIREMENTS:
1. Experience working with consumers with developmental, physical or mental disabilities.
2. Must have experience with and knowledge of public and paratransit in the SF Bay Area.
3. Ability to demonstrate how to use transportation apps from electronic devices. Ability to read, explain, discuss transit brochures and maps.
4. Above average oral and written communication skills.
5. Effective time management skills.
6. Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
7. Must have reliable transportation and be able to drive throughout Eastern and Southern Alameda County.
CRIL IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Qualified applicants with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.
Please send cover letter and resume to michael.galvan@crilhayward.org.
Independent Living Coordinator: Assistive Technology (AT)
Summary of Position:
Hours: 35 hours a week, Full Time, Benefitted, Non-Exempt
Salary: $24 an hour
Location: Hayward
Mission: CRIL advocates and provides resources for people with disabilities to improve the quality of life and make communities fully accessible.
Job Summary: Under supervision of the Assistive Technology (AT) Coordinator, the AT ILC II will help provide one-to-one AT and I & R and service coordination within CRIL’s service area.
Positions Supervised: None, excepting volunteers as needed.
Supervised by: Assistive Technology Coordinator
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Assists in phone line coverage and supervision of reception area during CRIL’s business hours.
2. Screen consumer needs and provide applicable services: conduct intakes, provide information and referral and/or direct to applicable CRIL service providers.
3. Conduct Outreaches throughout Alameda County to inform people about the Device Lending and Demonstration Center (DLDC)
4. Conduct Outreach to the area Senior Centers to show consumers how to use computers.
5. Develop and coordinate consumer training and workshops that promote the principles of independent living and self-advocacy through the use of AT.
6. Complete and accurately maintain consumer records and statistics on time.
7. The AT Coordinator II maintains the Device Lending and Demonstration Center.
8. Assists the Travel Trainer with Group Trips (no more than 3x a month).
9. Model skills and advocate for the rights, equal treatment, and appropriate policies that effect persons with disabilities.
10. Attend meetings, workshops, trainings and represent the interests of CRIL in a professional manner to improve the quality of services and/or information.
11. Other duties as assigned.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
1. One year experience working in social services or with persons with disabilities.
2. Ability to successfully relate to and communicate with people with disabilities, their families, other organizations, agencies, volunteers, and consumers.
3. Knowledge of programs and services available to persons with disabilities, with emphasis on Assistive Technology (AT).
4. Strong writing skills appropriate to consumer progress notes, service documentation, and data entry.
5. Basic to intermediate computer skills, internet research capability, operation of standard office machinery.
6. Ability to cope with moderate to high levels of stress.
7. Self-motivated with good verbal, written, and organizational skills.
8. Must be able to travel throughout CRIL’s service area and outside the area to other parts of the state. Reliable transportation is required.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
1. Experience with teaching a skill to individuals or small groups.
2. Knowledge and experience with AT software programs, such as Naturally Speaking, Kurzweil, JAWS, ZoomText, etc.
3. Personal experience with disability.
4. Bilingual in English and Spanish, Cantonese, Vietnamese or ASL.
CRIL IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.
Qualified applicants with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.
Please submit resume and cover letter to michael.galvan@crilhayward.org.
Independent Living Coordinator – Traumatic Brain Injury Services
Summary of Position:
Hours: 35 hours a week, Full Time; Benefitted; Non-Exempt
Salary: $24 per hour
Location: Hayward
Mission: CRIL advocates and provides resources for people with disabilities to improve lives and make communities fully accessible.
Job Summary: This position reports to the Program Director I and acts as an IL Generalist to help people with disabilities achieve their independent living goals. This position has responsibility for ensuring that CRIL’s consumers with traumatic brain injury have access to all of CRIL’s services.
Supervised by: Program Director.
Positions Supervised: None.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Outreach to hospitals in Alameda County to inform them of the TBI services for residents of CRIL’s catchment area.
2. Outreach to Rehabilitation Centers and Skilled Nursing Facilities to inform of services for residents of CRIL’s catchment area.
3. Facilitate identification and development of independent living (IL) goals with each consumer. Provide opportunity for consumer to develop an Independent Living Plan (ILP).
4. Enable consumers to access CRIL services and other services through Alameda County’s Aging and Disability Resource Connection (ADRC).
5. Provide individual and group peer support while teaching IL skills to enable persons with disabilities and their families to develop their own support systems and to decrease isolation and increase/maintain a positive self-image.
6. Teach specific IL skills that focus on enabling consumers to develop assertive communication skills and problem-solving abilities that allow the consumer to exercise self-advocacy effectively.
7. Input all required consumer data (all Intake, notes and indirect services into the CRIL’s consumer database). Reports are generated monthly.
OTHER SPECIFIC DUTIES:
1. Report to Program Director I on work accomplished.
2. Deliver all IL services in both individual and group settings (e.g.: assistive technology; housing search; personal assistance referral; I & R; peer support; independent skills training; individual/systems advocacy).
3. Refer to other CRIL staff or community agencies for additional services or follow-up, such as Assistive Technology I & R, Employment Services, Personal Counseling, etc.
4. Other duties as assigned.
MINIMUM EXPECTATIONS:
1. BA degree or 2 years’ experience in working with persons with disabilities.
2. Demonstrated ability to teach and model the independent living philosophy with consumers and to incorporate it into everyday job performance.
3. Familiarity with different disability groups and disability issues and/or life experience with disability necessary.
4. Ability to manage own workload and juggle multiple tasks in a self-directed manner.
5. Intermediate computer skills (e.g., Microsoft office Suite and CIL Suite data entry) developed.
5. Good oral and written communication skills.
6. Bi-lingual; preference will be given to Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese speakers.
CRIL IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.
Qualified applicants with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.
Please send resume and cover letter to michael.galvan@crilhayward.org