- High School Diploma
- Preferred but not required: One year of experience working with persons with disabilities.
- Preferred but not required: One year of experience planning, coordinating, and implementing recreation/leisure activities.
- To support the goal of establishing APD as the most sought-after place to work in Florida, the employee will create an environment that cultivates people and transforms teams by increasing transparency and providing opportunities for professional development. The employee actively works to demonstrates the qualities of being humble, hungry, and smart and leads others to embody the same. The team member lacks excessive ego, shares credit, is self-motivating and exercises good judgement and intuition around the subtitles of group dynamics.
ops therapy aide i - Marianna, United States - State of Florida
Description
Requisition No:
Agency: Agency for Persons with Disabilities
Working Title: OPS THERAPY AIDE I SUNLAND - CENTRALIZED SUPPORT SERVICES)
Pay Plan: Temp
Position Number:
Salary: $15.00 Per Hour
Posting Closing Date: 05/14/2024
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Agency for Persons with Disabilities – Sunland – OPS Therapy Aide I
Salary: $15.00 Per Hour
This advertisement is for multiple vacancies in Centralized Support Services
This is a 12-week temporary position with the effective hire date of May 24, 2024, and will end on August 9, 2024
Description
Assist in planning, coordinating, and implementing recreation/leisure activities for the people living at the Center. This includes having the ability to work in a variety of leisure settings such as arts and crafts, equestrian, aquatics, physical exercise, Special Olympics, and other recreation activities on Center.
Supervise and implement recreation/leisure outings, field trips and special events to ensure appropriate use of community resource facilities.
Provide training to individuals/athletes for Special Olympic competition, i.e., track and field, bowling, cycling, bocce, equestrian, softball, basketball, golf, and volleyball.
Collect, tabulate, and prepare data for cost accounting reports/ time studies.
Maintain records of progress/participation in rehabilitative therapy activities, ensuring documentation of training sessions for the purpose of tracking progress.
Prepare and clean activity area.
Perform other related duties as required.
Minimum Requirements
Experience, education, and/or training used to meet the minimum qualifications and in response to the qualifying questions must be verifiable through information contained in your application.
This position may be required to perform essential services before, during, and after an emergency per APD OP
This position is critical to the safety and supervision of residents and may require the incumbent to work beyond their normal work schedule to maintain minimum coverage levels in the facility.
Other job-related requirements for this position:
Recruiting Contact:
Lizzie Holland
Human Resource Specialist
Recruitment Manager
Agency for Persons with Disabilities
Sunland Center – Marianna
3700 Williams Drive
Marianna, FL 32446
Direct Deposit Program
As a condition of employment, a person appointed to a position in State government is required to participate in the Direct Deposit Program.
BACKGROUND SCREENING REQUIREMENT:
It is the policy of the Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities that applicants for employment undergo Level 2 employment screening in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 435, Florida Statutes, as a condition of employment or being permitted to serve as a volunteer. No applicant for a designated position will be employed or permitted to volunteer until the Level 2 screening results are received, reviewed, and approved by the Agency.
Level 2 background screening shall include, but not be limited to, fingerprinting for Statewide criminal and juvenile records checks through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and Federal criminal records checks through the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and may include local criminal records checks through local law enforcement agencies.
THIS POSITION REQUIRES A BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION INCLUDING FINGERPRINTING, PURSUANT TO S , FLORIDA STATUTES.
WE HIRE ONLY U.S. CITIZENS AND THOSE LAWFULLY AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE U.S. APD PARTICIPATES IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY VERIFICATION PROGRAM (E-VERIFY). E-VERIFY IS A PROGRAM THAT ELECTRONICALLY CONFIRMS AN EMPLOYEE'S ELIGIBILITY TO WORK IN THE UNITED STATES AFTER COMPLETION OF THE EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY VERIFICATION FORM (I-9).
ALL APPLICANTS SHOULD COMPLETE THE ON-LINE APPLICATION PROCESS. IF ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION, PLEASE CALL THE PEOPLE FIRST SERVICE CENTER AT RESPONSES TO THE QUALIFYING QUESTIONS ARE REQUIRED TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION. ANSWERS TO THE QUALIFYING QUESTIONS MUST BE VERIFIABLE BASED ON YOUR SUBMITTED APPLICATION.
The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.
Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.
The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section , F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.