Employment Specialist Jobs

Psychiatry-Centr of Excel-Dept-412216

Health Professional (Physician/Nurse/Other)

No

04/19/2023

05/03/2023

Permanent Staff (SHRA)

Human Services Practitioner - Journey

GN07

Employment Specialist

20050583

P017293

Full-Time Time-Limited

1 year

40

Monday – Friday, 8:00am – 5:00pm with flexibility for occasional evenings or weekends

Carrboro, NC

North Carolina, US

$37,912 - $55,000

To learn more about the pay band for this branch and role, please see the Career Banding rates spreadsheet.

The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service.
OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the nation’s leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
Education: We will prepare tomorrow’s health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.
Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

This position will serve as an Employment Specialist on the Building Evidence on Employment Strategies (BEES) for Low-Income Families grant project. This project is a collaboration between the UNC Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health and Lincoln Community Health Center, a federally qualified health center in Durham, NC. The project seeks to improve employment outcomes for identified individuals through engagement in the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model of supported employment.
The Employment Specialist will be the primary provider of all aspects of the IPS service which includes engagement, assessment, case management, skills training, job coaching, as well as the development of relationships with potential employers in the community. The Employment Specialist will be responsible for completion of accurate, timely documentation to fulfill reporting requirements.

Associate’s degree in a related Human Services discipline and two years of experience related to the area of assignment, or equivalent combination of training and experience. All degrees must be received from appropriately accredited institutions.

Valid driver’s license.

Not Applicable.

Evening work occasionally, Valid NC Driver’s License, Weekend work occasionally