Ess Instructor - #Wwrw0008

Title:ESS Instructor - #WWRW0008

State Role Title: Trainer and Instructor II

Hiring Range: Minimum Starting Salary $47,231 comm w/experience

Pay Band: 4

Agency: Dept for Aging & Rehab Svcs

Location: Wilson Wkfc Rehab Ctn

Agency Website: https://www.wwrc.virginia.gov/

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

If you enjoy working with a team that focuses on working to serve others, then this job may be for you!

Job Duties:

Wilson Workforce and Rehabilitation Center (WWRC) provides people with disabilities comprehensive, individualized services to realize optimal personal independence and employment. We strive to be the preferred provider of comprehensive vocational rehabilitation for Virginians with Disabilities. We apply our shared values; Ethical, Engaged, and Effective, to everything we do.
WWRC is currently seeking a qualified individual to serve as an ESS Instructor to instruct persons with disabilities in work readiness skills needed to prepare them for occupational training, on-the-job training, post-secondary education, or employment. The incumbent in this position will lead the instructional area, develop, and implement both lesson goals and objectives, evaluates students' progress, and differentiates instruction and initiates intervention strategies for each student. Serves as instructor within the Education Support Services (ESS) training area for the purposes of teaching students the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to access curriculums across multiple training areas.
To meet the expectations of this position, the incumbent must have access to personally identifiable and confidential information.

Minimum Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will have:
Knowledge/Experience:
A Collegiate Professional License or Technical Professional License by the Virginia Department of Education (or equivalent issued by another state), with endorsement in Career and Technical Education, Adult Education, or Special Education or must be a able to attain a license within 3 years after hire date.
Knowledge of teaching methods and techniques, special education best
practices, supports Workplace Readiness Behaviors, employment adaptations and accommodations, disability characteristics, and assessment techniques.
Skills/Abilities:
Skilled in instructional design and development, accommodations, differentiation of instruction, supporting Workplace Readiness Behaviors, communication, curriculum implementation, and planning.
Ability to teach students with disabilities, work with others, make decisions, problem solve, work independently, and develop individualized service plans; and to collaborate with ancillary/related services.

Additional Considerations:

Experience working with special education or related field.

Special Instructions:

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or resume is submitted successfully. Please refer to "Your Application" in your account to check the status of your application for this position. This position is designated to provide first aid, CPR, and AED only as collateral duty to routine work assignments, responding solely to resulting from workplace incidents, generally at the location where the incident occurred, until emergency personnel arrive on the scene. The incumbent understands that pre-exposure hepatitis B vaccination is not being provided, but that post-exposure hepatitis B vaccination will be provided, and s/he will complete annual blood borne pathogens training in accordance with OSHA standards.

• This has been designated a sensitive position under Va. Code 2.2-1201.1.
• A fingerprint-based criminal history check will be required of the finalist candidate.

Reasonable accommodations are available to persons with disabilities during the application and/or interview processes per the Americans with Disabilities Act. Contact recruitment@dars.virginia.gov for assistance.
Minorities, Individuals with disabilities, Veterans, Americorp, Peace Corps, and other National Service Alumni are encouraged to apply.
To Apply:
Equal Opportunity Employer State applications will only be accepted as submitted online by 11:55 p.m. on the closing date through the Commonwealth of Virginia's New Recruitment Management System. PageUp provides a confirmation of receipt when your application is submitted successfully. Please refer to "Your Application" in your PageUp account to check the status of your application for this position. You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or resume is submitted successfully. Please refer to "Your Application" in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

Contact Information

Name: Human Resources

Email: Recruitment@dars.virginia.gov

In support of the Commonwealth's commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their Certificate of Disability (COD) provided by a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor within the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their Certificate of Disability. If you need to get a Certificate of Disability, use this link: Career Pathways for Individuals with Disabilities, or call DARS at 800-552-5019, or DBVI at 800-622-2155.