Deaf Blind Employment Specialist
Employment Information
Report this job
Job expired or something wrong with this job?
Job Description
DeafBlind employment specialist delivering vocational rehabilitation and employment services through Helen Keller National Center. Supporting consumers, families, service providers, and employers across New England.
Responsibilities:
- Provide one-on-one vocational rehabilitation services focused on job readiness training, job development, job placement, and coaching
- Provide one-on-one and group-based employment-focused services throughout the New England Region, face-to-face or virtually
- Work with service providers and community partners to execute Individualized Plans for Employment (IPEs)
- Provide assistive technology, instrumental activities of daily living assistance, self-advocacy training, and casework as needed
- Identify service gaps and unmet consumer needs across the region
- Educate Vocational Rehabilitation personnel about DeafBlind capabilities and HKNC programs and services
- Serve as liaison and professional trainer between HKNC, Vocational Rehabilitation, and home team members
- Provide training and mentoring on work-site accommodations
- Work with VR and businesses to create work experience opportunities
- Identify DeafBlind youth and adults for inclusion in the HKNC National Registry
- Identify professional learning opportunities and assist with regional training needs assessments
- Implement vocational services best practices with HKNC teams and regional partners
- Coordinate with State DeafBlind Projects serving transition-age youth, families, and educational personnel
- Link educational teams with VR and community resources and attend IEP meetings when necessary
- Coordinate referrals, follow-up recommendations, and training with the DeafBlind Immersion Experience coordinator
- Travel to consumer, partner, and training locations throughout the New England Region as needed
- Perform other duties assigned by the supervisor or department director
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in vocational rehabilitation, special education or a closely related degree
- Three to five years of experience
- Basic computer proficiency
- Experience with File Maker Pro, Outlook, and MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
- Certification in good standing with emphasis in employment services, including ACRE and/or CESP (preferred)
- Familiarity with Vocational Rehabilitation and Blind Services agencies within the New England Region (preferred)
- Fluency in communication methods used by people who are DeafBlind, including American Sign Language (ASL) and sign language in English word order (preferred)
Benefits:
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 4 weeks' paid vacation annually
- Paid personal and sick time
- 11 Paid Holidays Off
- Life Insurance
- Short/Long Term Disability
- Additional Ancillary Benefits
- 403b Program w/Employer Match
- Employee Assistance Program
- Career Advancement opportunities
- Professional Development
- Reasonable workplace accommodations
Similar Jobs
Study Delivery Specialist
Study Delivery Specialist supporting clinical trial site monitoring for ICON’s global healthcare research organization. Assisting with compliance, documentation, data entry, and site performance tracking.
Commercial & Field Sys Delivery Lead
Commercial and Field Systems Delivery Lead supporting Salesforce and business systems across Maola’s farmer-owned dairy operations. Leading solution delivery, configuration, testing, optimization, and user support.
Payer Specialist
Payer Specialist managing healthcare billing, claims, denials, and payer relations for Ivy Health. Supporting accurate reimbursement and resolving insurance-related issues remotely.
Senior ML Specialist
Senior ML Specialist building and evaluating agentic AI for Sciene, empowering Quartile’s retail media optimization platform. Owning model strategy, evaluation, fine-tuning, and production operations.
Técnico de Campo Senior
Técnico de campo instalando, reparando y manteniendo hardware y software de Diebold Nixdorf. Resolución de incidencias y formación de clientes en sus instalaciones.
Technical Services Specialist
Technical Services Specialist leading integrations, data solutions, and automation for Absorb’s AI-driven learning platform. Managing client projects, APIs, SSO, CRM/HRIS connections, and analytics.
Technical Services Specialist
Technical Services Specialist leading client integrations, data solutions, and automation for Absorb’s AI-driven learning platform. Mentoring teammates and improving technical service delivery.
Special Processing Specialist II
Special Processing Specialist II managing complex benefits processing, compliance, and member services for Businessolver’s HR technology platform. Handling appeals, claims, eligibility updates, and escalations.
Service Relationship Specialist
Service Relationship Specialist supporting Manulife’s corporate Group Benefits clients. Advising partners, resolving complex service issues, and delivering client presentations and training.
Senior Specialist, Epic Solution Delivery
Epic Solution Delivery Specialist supporting complex Epic configurations and implementations for Interwell Health’s kidney-care management programs. Mentoring analysts and partnering with stakeholders on healthcare system enhancements.
Generalist
Generalist reviewing domain-specific documents and providing structured feedback. Helping Mercor’s AI lab and enterprise partners train and enhance frontier AI systems.
Candidate Experience Specialist
Candidate Experience Specialist coordinating interviews, candidate communications, and hiring workflows for GitLab’s DevSecOps platform. Supporting recruiters and People Operations in an all-remote global organization.
Senior Donation Coordinator
Senior Donation Coordinator evaluating tissue donors and supporting families for Live On Nebraska. Leading training, quality assurance, and process improvement across donation services.
Regional Project Lead
Solva Regional Project Lead delivering end-to-end manufacturing improvement projects for Seco, a global metal cutting and machining solutions provider. Coordinating technical teams, partners, and customers across South Europe.
Regional Project Lead
Regional project lead delivering Seco’s sustainable manufacturing solutions across Southern Europe. Coordinating complex customer projects, technical teams, partners, and measurable manufacturing improvements.
Title Specialist
Title Specialist creating property maps and processing title documents for First American’s India operations. Supporting title production through mapping, scanning, document collation, and post-production data aggregation.
Home Care Worker
Home Care Worker supporting aged clients with household tasks, meals, transport, and social care. Joining Silverchain, an Australian not-for-profit home care provider.
Hmong Language Specialist
Hmong medical interpreter enabling patient-provider communication for INTELEX, a global language services and outsourcing provider. Delivering accurate simultaneous and consecutive interpretation in medical settings.
Hmong Language Specialist
Remote Hmong-English medical interpreter providing accurate patient-provider communication. Supporting simultaneous, consecutive, legal, and medical interpretation for INTELEX.
Hmong Language Specialist
Hmong medical interpreter enabling accurate patient-provider communication for INTELEX, a global language services provider. Delivering simultaneous and consecutive interpretation in medical settings.