The Arc is the largest, most comprehensive provider of services to children and adults with disabilities in San Diego County. We are a diverse team of dedicated individuals who are passionate about serving and empowering children and adults to live their most fulfilling and independent lives.

We live by our Person First, Person Centered value system to create meaningful days for our clients and each other. In hiring, we look for candidates that are a strong addition to our culture, as well as bring the talent and experience required by the position. We offer a positive, team-oriented work environment with opportunity for professional growth and continuous learning, flexible hours, and the chance to make an impact on someone’s life.

We are looking for a reliable professional to join our team as a Supported Living Professional. You provide one on one 1:1 support in a residential setting to a client with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities in finding housing and adopting new skills and improve their independence. Together, you will manage finances, grocery shop and cook meals, support personal hygiene and medication management, and grow in all areas of independent living.

Who you are:

• Come with a passion for excellence in helping others grow
• Have an educator mindset
• Invested in working with adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities

A typical day will include:

• Providing culturally appropriate direct support to program participants using person-centered approaches and strategies that support clients to be fully engaged and included in each aspect of their daily life, have maximum choice and control, and gain independence. This can take many forms in residential and community settings, including:
  • Support and motivation to reach individual goals and objectives.
  • Conducts low income housing search activities leading to program participants living in a community suited to their individualized needs, choices, and desires
  • Engage and assist with meaningful activities that cater to the program participant’s individual interests, preferences, and choices; teaching as necessary.
  • Coordinates program participants’ personal and medical appointments, manages medications and medical protocols, and actively oversees program participants’ finances, including monthly budgeting and bill payment
  • Assists in accessing appropriate services, including employment services, medical/dental care, housing assistance, legal assistance, food banks, benefit programs (TANF, WIC programs, Social Security/Medi-Cal), and other community programs
  • Assistance with self-help needs including in the areas of grooming, hygiene, toileting, feeding and mobility as needed

What you’ll need to be successful:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
• 6+ months experience working with individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities
• Valid CA Driver’s License with clean driving record; immediate access to vehicle with working seatbelts to transport participants as well as comfort driving a full size van with multiple passengers
• Ability to lift 50 lbs and move up to 75 lbs
• High comfort in using multiple computer /mobile device programs

We’d love it if you:

• Are multi-lingual (English, Spanish, Tagalog)
• Believe in empowering individuals in living their most independent lives
• Have experience with electronic case management systems (Therap preferred)

The Arc of San Diego is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, religious creed, physical disability, mental disability, age, medical condition (cancer), marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities and general treatment during employment.

The Arc of San Diego will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified candidates with disabilities unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If candidates need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition, they should contact the Head of Human Resources.

The Arc of San Diego is a federal subcontractor and shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin. Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)