Job Openings

Catholic Guild for the Blind

01/25/2018

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Orientation and Mobility

• Assess consumer's current functioning and identify goals for services
• Assist consumers to relate body image and spatial, directional and orientation skills to his/her environment
• Assist consumers to develop their maximum safe travel potential and functional independence in a variety of environments using appropriate techniques
• Train low-vision consumers to make maximum use of low vision and tools in all environments
• Document and submit reports on all cases to be opened and closed using NYS funder database

Vision Rehabilitation

• Provide instruction in meal, home and financial management, and adaptive communication methods
• Select and purchase household and low-tech adaptive equipment as needed
• Conduct intakes and assessments
• Document and submit reports on all cases opened and closed using NYS funder database
• Coordinate the summer youth pre-vocational program as requested

Working conditions and physical demands:

• Travel for home visits outreach and/or escorting clients at least 80% of the time using reliable transportation, traversing streets, ascending/descending stairs, and exposed to outside weather conditions
• Assess and work in varied home environmental conditions
• Remain in a stationary position at a work station and use computer approximately 20% of the time
• Assist consumers in daily living tasks such as cooking, cleaning, packing, laundering, etc,. requiring moving, transporting, positioning, using cooking utensils, an/or positioning objects and exposure to routine cleaning products and household chemicals

Physical Demands

• Ability to move, lift and transport adaptive equipment to consumer's homes
• Ability to provide services indoors and outdoors in varying weather conditions

E_mail: judith.katzen@archny.org

Phone: 646-794-2097

Cert: Any Certification

Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York is a non-sectarian not for profit organization.  Our comprehensive benefits package includes, medical, dental and prescription coverage; life insurance, flexible spending plans and retirement plan.

For more information about the breadth of services that Catholic Charities provides and the supports that Catholic Guild for the Blind consumers can access, please visit our website:

www.catholiccharitiesny.org