Job Description
Make a bigger difference
Purpose: The Mishkon Division provides supports and services in a healthy and safe environment for individuals with intellectual/ developmental disabilities living in residential programs and in community settings. Our core values are to provide a healthy and safe environment that promotes person centered planning, community integration, and close collaboration with families and the community. This is all accomplished through an Orthodox Jewish lens, and with an understanding that staff, at all levels of the division, is the determining factor in achieving positive outcomes for our clients.
POSITION OVERVIEW: The Sabbath Counselor works over the Sabbath period (Friday afternoon through Saturday night) and on Jewish Holidays. The Sabbath Counselor is responsible for providing a spiritual environment and culturally sensitive services for the individuals in the division.
KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS : - Conducts religious services with the individual(s) in the synagogue environment.
- Ensure that clients attending services wear appropriate religious attire.
- Says the appropriate blessings (with the individual(s), required for consumption of specific food items.
- Sings Sabbath and Holiday appropriate songs with the individual(s).
- May go on walks over the Sabbath or holiday where appropriate.
- Conducts a Sabbath party/ceremony on Saturday or holiday afternoon with refreshments and singing.
- Oversees the food service delivery on Friday evening and Saturday morning/afternoon as well as holiday to ensure proper kosher standards are kept at all times.
- Required to dress in appropriate Sabbath and Jewish Holiday attire.
CORE COMPETENCIES for the position include:
- Compassion, empathy, patience, and genuine desire to make a positive impact on individual's lives.
- Excellent client engagement skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong knowledge of spiritual environment and culturally traditions with Orthodox Jewish practices.
EDUCATIONAL / TRAINING REQUIRED: - Must be at least 18 years old, no educational requirements, must have knowledge of Orthodox Jewish laws, traditions and practices.
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED / LANGUAGE PREFERENCE: - Experience working with individuals with Intellectual Disabilities preferred.
COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED: - Basic computer skills required (Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel).
VISUAL AND MANUAL DEXTERITY: - There are no specific requirements in this area.
WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL EFFORT: - The position entails some lifting and moving related to food service.
- Pushing a wheelchair and walking clients from one residence to another.
If you join us, you'll have these great benefits: - Generous vacation time, in addition to paid agency holidays and sick days
- Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans
- 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
- Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
- Free continuing education opportunities
- Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation
- 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program
- Life and disability insurance
Who we are: The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.
More on Equal Opportunity: We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.
We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.
We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.
We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources. The Jewish Board
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Holiday work, New year, Local area, Flexible hours, Night shift, Day shift, Saturday, Afternoon shift,