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Job description
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Responsibilities: MV Transportation is seeking a Transit Instructor to facilitate the independence of individuals, who may be Developmentally Disabled, Physically Disabled, Low Visually Impaired, Deaf or Hard of Hearing, and/or a Senior Citizen, by teaching them the skills required to utilize public transportation; while working closely with the Program Manager, Outreach Coordinator, and all outside sources answering questions regarding the program and supporting requests for monthly and quarterly reporting.
Responsibilities:
Conduct assessment with clients and family in their home to determine participants’ functional skills, abilities, and necessary training requirements.
Maintain daily contact with family and/or other agency staff as required for individual training.
Teach while traveling on public transportation, and within the community.
Patience, compassion, and empathy for people with physical and/ or developmental disabilities, as well as senior citizens.
Be a strong self-manager, team orientated with excellent communication skills.
Be able to solve problems independently in changing environments.
Knowledge of the local transit system.
Make safety a top priority.
Strong customer service skills, with a strong understanding of working with individuals with physical and developmental disabilities, and senior community.
Have a dedicated home office space for working remotely.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Knowledge of different disabilities, and the ability to research disabilities, if needed, for a better understanding of the student
Conduct assessment with clients and family in their home to determine participants’ functional skills, abilities, and necessary training requirements.
Develop individual training plans for participants.
Provide one-on-one field training to people with physical and/or developmental disabilities, as well as senior citizens community.
Maintain accurate confidential documentation.
Ability to teach independence skills to individuals with physical and/or developmental disabilities
Teach while traveling on public transportation, and within the community.
Prepare a final report on training activity at the conclusion.
Qualifications: Talent Requirements:
Education is equivalent to an AA degree from an accredited institution, specializing in social services, special education, preferred or two (2) years of experience providing instruction or working one-on-one with a special demographics who display a developmental and/or physical disability, as well as support our senior population.
Must have a valid Driver’s license, good driving record, proof of insurance, and own transportation.
Must have a strong user knowledge of Word and Excel.
Customer service skill in the field.
Have a dedicated home office space for working remotely.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, and detail oriented, while demonstrating a concern for the safety of the vulnerable population.
Ability to self-manage in remote settings.
Inspire confidence in the participants ability to independently use public transportation safely through modeling professionalism, and training.
Showing a passion for our vulnerable populations by displaying integrity, responsibility, dependability, punctuality, flexibility, initiative, ability to communicate in simply clearly sentences is a must.
Starting Pay Rate: $28 - $29/hour
Healthcare Benefits: PPO Medical, Medical HSA, Prescription, Dental, Vision (spouse and dependent children), Telemedicine, FSA, Life, AD&D, Group Accident, LTD, STD, EAP, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Substance Abuse Professionals programming
Retirement Benefits: 401k and Union pension: the Company contributes to the WCT Pension for each hour for which compensation is paid to maximum of 2080 hours per calendar year
Paid Time Off: 0 months - year 2 = 1.538 bi-weekly accrual w/ 40 yearly accrual cap
Paid Holidays: 8 paid holidays
More Generous Paid Sick Leave: 1 hour/per 30 hours for all FT employees
Other Compensation: $1,000.00 Driver referral bonus ($500.00 upon training completion and $500.00 upon completion of probationary period); $1,000.00 Mechanic referral bonus ($500.00 upon training completion and $500.00 upon completion of probationary period)
MV Transportation is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. The information collected by this application is solely to determine suitability for employment, verify identity and maintain employment statistics on applicants.
Where permissible under applicable state and local law, applicants may be subject to a pre-employment drug test and background check after receiving a conditional offer of employment.
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kent, WA, 98032, US
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