Requisition No: 875869
Agency: Agency for Persons with Disabilities
Working Title: VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION TECH - 67039387 - SUNLAND - EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
Pay Plan: Career Service
Position Number: 67039387
Salary: $39,377.31 - $43,314.96
Posting Closing Date: 05/28/2026
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AGENCY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
POSITION: Vocational Rehabilitation Technician - Career Service
POSITION NUMBER: 67039387
OPEN COMPETITIVE OPPORTUNITY
This posting may close before the posted closing date.
The hiring salary may exceed the maximum posted salary.
CANDIDATE POOL: Future vacancies may be filled from this advertisement for a period of up to six months.
The Benefits of Working for the State of Florida
Working for the State of Florida is more than a paycheck. The State’s total compensation package for eligible employees features a highly competitive set of employee benefits, including:
The Agency seeks team members who demonstrate the qualities of being humble, hungry, and smart and lead others to embody the same. This entails lacking excessive ego, sharing credit, being self-motivated, and exercising good judgment and intuition regarding the subtleties of group dynamics.
This position with APD will serve staff and management across the Agency. Your work will impact the workplace culture, our community, and the population we serve as we continuously strive to achieve the Agency’s mission.
*Responses to the qualifying questions are required and must be verifiable based on your submitted application, and “see resume” will not be considered an acceptable response.
SALARY RANGE
$39,377.31 - $43,314.96 Annually $1,514.51 - $1,665.96 Bi-weekly
This professional, highly responsible career service position established as the Vocational Rehabilitation Technician (Classroom Instructor) at Sunland. The primary function of this position is to ensure that each resident’s active treatment program is integrated, coordinated, and monitored. Ensuring a healthy and safe environment for each resident is a key component of the role. The Classroom Instructor serves as a back-up for other caseloads as assigned. This position may be assigned to a home or specific case load as needed. This is a mission critical/essential, excluded position thus tasked with responding in emergency situations.
The Work You Will Do
This position is tasked with orchestrating the Educational/vocational facets of the active treatment team’s efforts, effectively coordinating internal and external program services facilitating the acquisition of residents’ skills and adaptive behaviors and promoting competent interactions of residential staff with other residents in program implementation and behavior management. The Classroom Instructor conducts and/or coordinates continuous active treatment in the therapeutic environment to enhance, maintain, and/or develop each resident’s skills. Develop, train, and implement advanced group and/or individualized therapeutic treatment. Document teaching data for instructional activities using appropriate data collection methods. Training residents involved in the design and implementation of individualized therapy programs used to develop cognitive, social, emotional, and physical growth and skills of the resident. The incumbent must assure timely follow-up on related resident needs.
Oversee the residents and staff in the classroom, outings, field trips and special events, engaging the resident in structured activities and provide informal activities as needed. Escort residents as needed or assigned, to or from classroom activities or to other program areas. Ensure the completion of documentation of treatment and instruction to include implementation of teaching programs. Ensure, monitor, and write monthly summaries indicating monthly progress according to data interpretation. Document significant behaviors, accident, and incident reports, etc. as required/directed. Develop and prepare instructional materials to maintain an orderly classroom setting that is neat, clean, and conducive to learning. Maintain attendance records and report monthly.
Conduct assessments of residents to include writing: Individualized Program Plan (IPP) reports and summaries, active treatment summaries, discharge summaries and other reports as required. Develop annual goals that are based on assessment results and submit as required.
Attend support plan meetings, active treatment meetings, staff meetings, in-service meetings, and consultations with other instructional or house staff concerning resident programming or progress.
Monitor, motivate and direct staff in resident service provision.
Completes all required training. Complete and maintain approved maladaptive behavior prevention/de-escalation/intervention certification as required.
Maintain timesheet, ensuring accuracy and submit timely in accordance with policy and procedure.
Perform other related duties as required.
Minimum Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities
Additional Information
Profile Completion
To qualify for this position, applicants must complete all fields in the Candidate Profile, including their work history with the month and year.
Resumes and other documentation can be attached to provide additional information but will not replace the required completed Candidate Profile.
Retiree Notice
If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida. Your current retirement benefits may be suspended or voided, and you will be required to repay all benefits received depending upon your retirement date.
Direct Deposit Program
As a condition of employment, a person appointed to a position in the State Personnel System is required to participate in the Direct Deposit Program. Rather than receiving a paper paycheck, your funds will be deposited directly into your account at your financial institution. This will be accomplished by Electronic Funds Transfer. Banks, savings and loan associations, and credit unions are eligible to accept such deposits. Retirement funds are also required to be in the Direct Deposit Program.
Background Screening Requirement
It is the policy of the Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities that applicants for employment undergo Level 2 employment screening in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 435, Florida Statutes, as a condition of employment or being permitted to serve as a volunteer.
No applicant for a designated position will be employed or permitted to volunteer until the Level 2 screening results are received, reviewed, and approved by the Agency.
Level 2 background screening shall include, but not be limited to, fingerprinting for Statewide criminal and juvenile records checks through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Federal criminal records checks through the Federal Bureau of Investigation and may include local criminal records checks through local law enforcement agencies.
Pursuant to S. 110.1127(1), Florida Statutes, this position requires a background investigation, including fingerprinting.
APD only hires U.S. citizens and those lawfully authorized to work in the U.S. APD participates in the U.S. government’s employment eligibility verification program (E-Verify), which electronically confirms an employee’s eligibility to work in the U.S. after completing the employment eligibility verification form (I-9).
All applicants should complete the online application process. If you need assistance applying for this position, please call the People First service center at 1-877-562-7287.
Responses to the qualifying questions are required to be considered for this position. Answers to the qualifying questions must be verifiable based on your submitted application.
Recruiting Contact:
Lizzie Holland
Human Resource Specialist/Recruitment Manager
Sunland Human Resources
Division of Administration and Facility Operations
E-mail: lizzie.holland@apdcares.org
3700 Williams Drive
Marianna, FL. 32446
Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.
The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.
VETERANS’ PREFERENCE. Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply. Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements. Candidates claiming Veterans’ Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code. Veterans’ Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.
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