What are the responsibilities and job description for the Work Incentives Practitioner position at The Arc Of The Ozarks?
Are you interested in joining a rewarding non-profit career field with opportunities to make a difference in your community? The Arc invites you to join our team of value-driven and independent professionals. Help us fulfill our mission to support individuals with disabilities in enhancing the quality of their lives!
If we didn’t get your attention yet - The Arc of the Ozarks offers a $1000 sign on bonus plus competitive pay and benefits.
What is this job all about?
The Work Incentives Practitioner (WIP) for Employment Solutions, a division of The Arc of the Ozarks, is the key player in providing services for our primary customer (an individual who has a disability) and our secondary customers (funding sources, families, employers, other service providers.) The WIP’s primary job is to assist individuals with disabilities to inform an individual about competitive integrated employment and assist them to assess if it will result in increased economic self-sufficiency and/or net financial benefit through the use of various work incentives.
The Work Incentives Practitioner (WIP) is a professional, management level position responsible for program-planning, management, and supervision of community services with The Arc of the Ozarks. Services may include but are not limited to: Benefits Planning (BP) and any Employment-related service (ES). Services are provided to persons with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and co-existing mental health and behavioral disorders.
The Work Incentives Practitioner (WIP) functions as the Degreed Professional Manager (Missouri Comprehensive Waiver guidelines) with overall responsibility for the development, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of individual support plans adapted to the needs of persons served. The WIP is a manager, and as such, is responsible for staff training and supervision, quality enhancement monitoring, developing, and implementation of individualized support plans. The WIP is also responsible for monitoring and maintaining current certification and continuing education requirements.
That’s nice, but what will I actually be doing?
- Provide information to participants about the array of available work incentives for essential benefit programs such as Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), Medicaid, Medicare, housing subsidies, food stamps, ABLE accounts, etc.
- Assistance with income reporting requirements for public benefit programs, including the Social Security Administration.
- Formalizing development of Plans for Achieving Self Sufficiency (PASS) and Property Essential to Self-Support (PESS).
- Assistance with utilization of social security work incentives.
- Coordination of social security and Medicaid work incentives and benefits support
- Assistance with individual benefit verification, consultation, education, and ongoing analysis/planning
Here’s a little more:
- Along with competitive pay and benefits, this position will also witness firsthand the growth and the success of the individuals we serve.
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