Job Description:

Job Title: Vocational Support Specialist

Location: Nevada, Missouri

Department: Supported Living & Employment Services

Employment Type: Part Time

Job Summary:

Are you looking to make a positive impact in the lives of others? Do you want to work in a supportive and dynamic environment where you can grow your skills and advance your career? Join our team as a Vocational Support Specialist in the Nevada, Missouri area!

Discover a world filled with unlimited opportunities for personal and professional growth with our Vocational Support Specialists - your indispensable allies committed to guiding you through life's many twists and turns. Leveraging their vast wealth of knowledge, passion for excellence, and innate creativity, our top-notch Vocational Support Specialists work tirelessly to design bespoke blueprints for achievement, empowering you to unlock your true potential and conquer new heights.

Nevada offers a high quality of life, affordable housing, excellent schools, and endless opportunities for entertainment, culture, and outdoor activities. Join us in making a difference in the lives of children and advancing your career!

Position Perks & Benefits:

• Mileage reimbursement - company paid for work functions requiring travel
• NHSC approved - eligible site for tax-free student loan assistance
• Top-notch training - initial, ongoing, comprehensive, and supportive
• Career mobility - advancement opportunities/promoting from within
• Welcoming, warm, supportive - a work culture & environment that promotes your well-being, values you as human being, and encourages your health and happiness

Key Responsibilities:

• Needs Assessment: Perform comprehensive evaluations to gauge clients' aptitudes, interests, values, and transferable skills, pinpoint areas requiring enhancement, and ascertain requisites for employment success.
• Service Coordination: Liaise with employment specialists, job developers, recruiters, HR managers, and labor market analysts to synchronize efforts, pool intelligence, and broker deals furthering clients' career objectives.
• Job Matching: Identify vacancies fitting clients' profiles, submit applications, schedule interviews, negotiate contracts, arrange transportation, and furnish interview garb, accessories, grooming kits, and portfolio binders.
• Accommodations Advocacy: Plead the case for reasonable accommodations commensurate with clients' functional limitations, circumscribing undue hardship, removing architectural barriers, modifying equipment, and altering workplace policies.
• Ongoing Training: Supplement core capabilities through didactic lectures, workshop series, online courses, boot camps, hackathons, and networking events, keeping abreast of industry trends and acquiring state-of-the-art competencies.
• Soft Skills Instruction: School clients in essential verbal and nonverbal cues, email etiquette, telephone manners, meeting protocols, time management, task prioritization, delegation, teamwork, leadership, conflict resolution, active listening, negotiation, and assertiveness.
• Technology Literacy: Equip clients with rudimentary computer literacy, MS Office Suite fluency, internet navigation, cybersecurity hygiene, mobile device optimization, and social media presence management.
• Financial Planning: Coach clients in basic bookkeeping, expense tracking, tax preparation, credit score repair, debt reduction, savings accumulation, retirement provisioning, and estate distribution.
• Wellness Maintenance: Educate clients on stress management, sleep hygiene, exercise routines, nutritious meal choices, ergonomic workspace configurations, tobacco cessation, alcohol moderation, drug avoidance, and harm reduction.

Education and/or Experience Qualifications:

• A high school diploma or equivalent certificate is required; an associate’s or bachelor's degree in an applicable field from an accredited institution is preferred.
• Experience in rehabilitation, employment services, case management, social services or other applicable experience is preferred.

Additional Qualifications:

• A valid driver's license and a reliable vehicle.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Flexibility and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.
• Compassion, empathy, and a genuine desire to help others.

Brightli is on a Mission:

A mission to improve client care, reduce the financial burden of community mental health centers by sharing resources, a mission to have a larger voice in advocacy to increase access to mental health and substance use care in our communities, and a mission to evolve the behavioral health industry to better meet the needs of our clients.

As a behavioral and community mental health provider, we value diversity, equity, and inclusion in our workforce and encourage applications from individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences. If you are passionate about empowering your local communities and promoting health equity, we invite you to join our mission-driven organization that is committed to building a diverse, equitable, inclusive and authentic workplace.

We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, disability or veteran status, or to other non-work related factors.

Supported Living and Employment Services is a Smoke and Tobacco Free Workplace.