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Earn a Living While Making a Difference!
Crystal Springs is a non-profit organization that provides educational, therapeutic and residential services to children and adults living with both physical and intellectual disabilities. We support children and adults with developmental disabilities in a loving, nurturing environment that promotes health, safety, dignity, respect and choice. Recognizing that all have unique gifts and the desire to achieve and contribute to their world, Crystal Springs embraces each person's pursuit of growth and independence so that all may reach their true potential.

Position Summary:
The Pre-Vocational Aide provides appropriate care and treatment in a therapeutic environment that promotes the physical, emotional and behavioral health of each student and assists them in developing adaptive life skills. Pre-Vocational Aides work as a part of a collaborative therapeutic team in directly assisting students with their pre-vocational and job coaching activities. They are expected to establish therapeutic rapport with our students as well as open communications and support among co-workers. The Pre-Vocational Aide is directly accountable to the Pre-Vocational Instructor who provides supervision and training and is a non-exempt, hourly employee.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform direct care of all assigned students, i.e., eating, toileting and personal hygiene training; during vocational services both on and off campus.
• Directly delivers vocational services, incorporating therapeutic services both on and off campus.
• Transport students to and from classes to job coaching opportunities both on and off campus in a safe and secure manner following state and agency transportation policies.
• Assist in providing assigned students with all necessary Pre-Vocational and therapeutic services;
• Implement student positive behavior support practices utilizing appropriate techniques and forms to monitor, assess and document situations and student status.
• Implement crisis intervention techniques (CPI) in accordance with policy, procedure and agency training.
• Develop an understanding of the Mass. Curriculum Frameworks;
• Provide input to the Pre-Vocational Instructor regarding progress of assigned students during evaluation periods, i.e., annual summaries, six month reviews, and quarterly reports;
• Assist in providing assigned students with job coaching related duties both on and off campus
• Assist the Pre-Vocational Instructor with maintaining accurate and current student records;
• Accept feedback from supervisors, colleagues, and other staff and foster a safe and respectful environment for dialogue and disagreement.
• Abide by mandates regarding confidentiality and ethics as per federal, state and agency policy and procedures.
• Attend all staff meetings, and mandatory in-service trainings as required by state licensing and/or Crystal Springs.
• Cooperate and participate in internal investigations.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisors.

Competencies/Skills:

• Ability and commitment to function as a healthy & therapeutic role model maintaining personal and professional self-awareness.
• Fairness, forethought and good judgment in decision-making.
• Cooperative attitude and effective written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills with others (students and their families, supervisors and other professionals) to foster good working relationships.
• Ability to model and reinforce skills in the program and out in the community while fostering independence.
• Understanding of general environmental & safety policies/procedures.
• Understanding and ability to attend to and complete all required documentation.
• Ability to assist students with personal care development and maintenance as appropriate.
• Understanding of client confidentiality regulation and protocols (HIPAA/FERPA).
• Ability to understand and adhere to licensing regulations.
  Knowledge of policies and procedure for reporting suspected child abuse & neglect.
• Knowledge of common functional work computer skills.

Working Conditions:

• Duties are performed indoors and outdoors accompanying residents to various activities, events and appointments;
• Some duties performed in a rehabilitation pool.

Ready to Join Us & Be the Change?


At Crystal Springs, we hire people seeking to make a difference in the lives of people with disabilities, people who are caring, compassionate, and wanting to make a difference. We believe a diverse workforce with a wide array of backgrounds, including ethnicity, race, gender and religion drives success at Crystal Springs. Apply today to see what kind of difference you can make!​​
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Together, we can transform lives and create a brighter future for all.

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