Teacher / Instructor Teacher-Level I Communication Skills

Lighthouse Guild is the leading not-for-profit healthcare organization dedicated to addressing and preventing vision loss. Our mission is to provide exceptional services that inspire people who are visually impaired to attain their goals. Our vision is a world in which no person is limited by their visual capacity. GuildCare, Lighthouse Guild’s innovative community-based Adult Day Health Care Program providing services to adults who are blind or visually impaired and have chronic health care needs is seeking a Teacher / Instructor Teacher-Level I Communication Skills for its Manhattan location.

Responsibilities :

• Completes vision rehabilitation assessments for each registrant in   the areas of communications skills, orientation and mobility, and activities of daily living.
• Develops and implements vision rehabilitation treatment plans for those registrants needing vision rehabilitation training at the GuildCare site. Re-evaluates needs periodically and revises treatment plans as needed.
• Teaches communication skills, home management skills, personal care skills and orientation and mobility following the established GuildCare Core Curriculum for Vision Rehabilitation.
• Works with individuals and groups.
• Serves as resource person with respect to services, equipment, supplies and materials for the visually impaired.
• Adapts materials for individual clients.
• Provides liaison with and makes referrals to appropriate community agencies.
• Participates in team development of daily living, educational cultural and recreational program for registrants.
• Completes all required records and reports on a timely basis.
• Works with other team members to foster interdisciplinary understanding, cooperation and a unified treatment approach.
• Along with all other GuildCare staff, performs general assistance tasks on a regular basis as assigned by program director. These include : escorting registrants throughout the space, including to from the restroom, assisting with transportation, serving meals cleaning up from meals as needed, and filling in for absent coworkers.
• Observes and implements the Registrant's Bill of Rights.
• Responsible for maintaining the privacy of registrant protected health information.
• Responsible for following the LGI Workforce security policy; will access information       systems and ePHI authorized by Clinical  Authorization only.
• Physical demands :
• Standing for long periods, walking, lifting / transferring registrants, using lifting equipment when required.
• Bending, stooping, squatting, twisting, reaching above and below shoulder level.
• Able to push / pull registrants in wheelchairs.
• Able to lift and carry equipment and / or supplies

Qualifications :

A Bachelor's Degree is required.  Experience teaching the visually impaired or willing to work with VI instructors and learn.

Accountability :

The Teacher / Instructor Level I is responsible to the GuildCare Program Director.

We offer a very competitive salary and benefit package. Convenient Upper West Side location.

Benefits :

403 (b)

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance

Agency Website :   https : / / www.lighthouseguild.org /

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