Job Coach SS007-KS02

Mosaic

Posted 3 months ago

Full Time

Garden City, Kansas

In Person

Smart Summary

Responsibilities

The role involves coaching and mentoring individuals with developmental disabilities to find and maintain meaningful employment or volunteer roles. Responsibilities include teaching life skills, building partnerships with local employers, and providing transportation to sites.

Qualifications

You have a high school diploma or equivalent and at least one year of experience working with individuals with intellectual disabilities. Your role requires significant physical activity, including standing, walking, bending, reaching, and occasional lifting and transferring.

Must Have Skills for ATS

Intellectual disabilities support

Job coaching

Community integration

Life skills training

Employer relations

Transportation

Job Description

About Mosaic


At Mosaic, we are One Mosaic. We are a dedicated team relentlessly pursuing opportunities that empower people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live meaningful lives in caring communities. Built on the core values of belonging, connection, faithfulness, and grit, we ensure the people we support have a voice, advocate for their rights, and achieve their personal goals.
If you are looking for a career where your daily work directly changes lives and strengthens your local community, you belong here.


The Role: How You’ll Make an Impact
As a Community Employment Specialist, you aren’t just a job coach—you are a bridge builder, an advocate, and a champion for independence. You will work directly in the community to help individuals with developmental disabilities find, secure, and thrive in meaningful employment and volunteer roles.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Coach & Mentor: Provide hands-on training, guidance, and encouragement to individuals at their job or volunteer sites, helping them master tasks and build confidence.
    Teach Life Skills: Help individuals develop vital communication and independent living skills that set them up for long-term success.
  • Build Partnerships: Foster positive relationships with local employers and volunteer organizations to ensure a supportive environment for the individuals we serve.
  • Provide a Lift: Safely transport individuals to and from their community employment and volunteer sites.
  • Advocate & Document: Keep accurate, confidential records of progress and milestones, ensuring we are constantly centering the needs, desires, and rights of those we support.
    What You Bring to the Team
  • We are looking for patient, positive, and driven individuals who believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to work and contribute to their community.

Schedule: M-F 8am-5pm

Commitment to Mosaic Values:

At Mosaic, we believe in creating a workplace where everyone has the chance to contribute and succeed. This commitment is not just a policy, it's the way we work. It's good for the workforce, it's good for Mosaic, and it's the right thing to do.

Qualifications
  • High school diploma or equivalent.
  • Minimum of one year experience working with people with intellectual disabilities. 
  • Work requires frequent physical activity including extended periods of standing, walking, and bending with occasional periods of sitting, kneeling, climbing, stooping, crouching, squatting and balancing.
  • Work also requires constant reaching between knee and shoulder level as well as frequent reaching below knee level and overhead.
  • Work requires occasional independent lifting up to 25 pounds, frequent push/pull up to 40 pounds of force and the ability to safely transfer 50 pounds.

Mosaic

Mosaic is a whole-person healthcare organization reaching across 12 states providing support to nearly 5,000 people. Services empower people with disabilities, mental and behavioral needs and autism, as well as aging adults to live their best life. Mosaic is an affiliated social ministry organization of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and a member of Lutheran Services in America. Mosaic is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. For more information, visit MosaicInfo.org.
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