Rehabilitation Specialist - Transitional Age Youth

About the role

Sheppard Pratt’s Transitional Age Youth (TAY) Program in the City of Frederick is an innovative, time-limited 8-bed residential and psychiatric rehabilitation program for young adults ages 18–23. The program provides a structured, home-like environment to support daily living skills and the transition to adulthood and life in the community.

This is a full-time evening shift position with hours of 1pm–9pm and 3pm–11pm, and rotating weekends.

Responsibilities

• Engage young people through relationship development, person-centered planning, and a focus on their futures.
• Tailor accessible, coordinated, developmentally appropriate services and supports that build on strengths and help young people pursue goals across transition domains.
• Support personal choice and social responsibility.
• Involve parents, family members, and other informal and formal key players in a safety net of support.
• Enhance young people’s competencies, self-sufficiency, and confidence.
• Maintain an outcome focus in the TIP system at the young person, program, and community levels.
• Involve young people, parents, and community partners in the TIP system at the practice, program, and community levels.
• Locate and arrange appropriate services within the agency and community for TAY.
• Work collaboratively with families, vendors, referral sources, and multidisciplinary staff to provide quality services that meet the needs of families with special...

Key facts

• Full-time evening shift, working 1pm–9pm and 3pm–11pm, with rotating weekends.
• The program serves young adults ages 18–23.
• The program is an 8-bed residential and psychiatric rehabilitation program.