Vocational Support Specialist

2 days ago

Springfield, United States Brightli Full time
Job Description:

Job Title: Vocational Support Specialist

Location: Springfield, Missouri

Department: Supported Living & Employment Services

Employment Type: Part-Time

Job Summary:
Passionate about vocational rehabilitation and eager to make a significant impact in the lives of individuals with disabilities? We are seeking a dedicated Vocational Support Specialist to join our team. In this role, you will contribute to developing customized vocational plans, instructing pre-vocational/vocational skills, facilitating community integration, providing job coaching, and maintaining collaborative relationships with various stakeholders. Your expertise in assessing clients' strengths, needs, abilities, and preferences will enable them to achieve their personal and employment goals.

As a Vocational Support Specialist, you will treat all clients, referral sources, stakeholders, and team members with dignity and respect while ensuring strict confidentiality. With flexible scheduling options, you will maintain adaptability in work availability, including evening, weekend, and overnight shifts. Additionally, you will compile and review relevant medical, psychological, vocational, and educational records to create tailored programs addressing each client's unique circumstances.

Join our mission to enhance client care, alleviate the financial strain faced by community mental health centers, amplify our collective voices in advocating for increased accessibility to mental health and substance abuse treatment, and revolutionize the behavioral healthcare landscape-all while enjoying a welcoming, nurturing, and encouraging work atmosphere at Supported Living & Employment Services.

Position Perks & Benefits:
  • Employee benefits package - health, dental, vision, retirement, life, & more**
  • Mileage reimbursement - company paid for work functions requiring travel
  • 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:
  • Provide job coaching and on-site support to assist clients in learning job duties and developing natural workplace supports
  • Coordinate and facilitate work-based learning experiences, skills training, and community integration activities
  • Compile client information and create individualized service plans for vocational and independent living goals
  • Implement creative strategies and accommodations to address unique client needs and learning styles
  • Offer comprehensive support services including transportation, benefits planning, service coordination, and crisis intervention
  • Foster long-term employment success through ongoing job coaching and support plan implementation
  • Educate employers on hiring individuals with disabilities and facilitate workplace accommodations
  • Build positive relationships with employers to develop competitive, inclusive employment opportunities
  • Maintain active communication with referral sources to identify potential clients and discuss shared cases
  • Develop expertise in disabilities, assistive technologies, and accommodations to support clients
  • Empower clients by teaching job seeking skills, self-advocacy, and strategies for career advancement
  • Serve as a liaison between clients, employers, and support networks to promote successful job retention
  • Represent the organization professionally and promote disability awareness through community outreach
  • Uphold confidentiality standards and person-centered, strengths-based service delivery
  • Demonstrate flexibility to meet client needs, including non-traditional schedules as required
Education and/or Experience Qualifications:
  • High School diploma or equivalent certificate required
  • Associate's or bachelor's degree in an applicable field from an accredited institution preferred
  • Experience in rehabilitation, employment services, case management, social services or other applicable experience preferred
Additional Qualifications:
  • Strong customer service skills
  • Skilled computer knowledge (Word, Excel, internet platforms, other electronic media)
  • Ability to communicate effectively and accurately in verbal and written form
  • Understanding of supporting individuals with disabilities and/or barriers to employment, education, and/or independent living


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.

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