Job Description:

Job Title: Work Site Support Specialist

Location: Nevada, Missouri

Department: Supported Living & Employment Services

Employment Type: Part-Time

Job Summary:Passionate about transforming young lives through hands-on learning experiences? Eager to integrate soft skills into a realistic work environment? Look no further!

The Work Site Support Specialist is responsible for providing a work-based learning experience in a competitive integrated setting for eligible VR clients who are enrolled in high school. The Work Site Support Specialist will facilitate on-site support, as well as lead classroom discussion using ODEP’s soft skills curriculum for the development of employability skills in a real work environment. The Specialist completes necessary plans, reports and paperwork, as assigned.

Position Perks & Benefits:• 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:• Orchestrate students' work-based learning adventures within the Pre-Employment Training - Work Experience Program with VR.• Provide on-site assistance for students completing a combined 16 hours at specified workplaces over the course of four days each week, targeting 4 hours per day.• Blend 4 hours of soft skills training weekly into on-site experiences, scheduled flexibly throughout each day, covering opening and closing moments of each work shift.• Accompany students at work sites, helping them completely merge into the surroundings while arbitrating conflicts between colleagues and bosses as needed.• Generate plans, evaluations, and documentation as required.• Gather details about students through the introduction process, featuring conversations with students, relatives, VR counselors, and educators to discern their strengths, proficiency, capacity, desires, and occupational + extracurricular preferences.• Administer new-hire documentation, orientations, and weekly attendance records.• Chauffeur students to and from work locations as demanded.• Relay work site results and pertinent info regarding student progress to directors and referral providers as required.

Education and/or Experience Qualifications:• High school diploma or comparable certification is mandatory; an affiliate's or bachelor's degree in a fitting discipline from a certified establishment is advantageous.• Preferably skilled in employment services, job coaching, business, sales, HR, or socioeconomic spheres.

Additional Qualifications:• Driver's license and reliable vehicle.• Powerful communication and interpersonal skills.• Empathy, sympathy, and a burning drive to benefit others.

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.

About Brightli

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. We are doing this by forming a new behavioral health organization under new model. Under one parent company, multiple organizations are able to collaborate, share resources and system supports, increase recruiting and retention efforts, increase access to specialized care, and meet the growing demand for behavioral and addiction recovery care.

Brightli’s top-line subsidiaries include Burrell Behavioral Health (Burrell), Preferred Family Healthcare (PFH), and Southeast Missouri Behavioral Health (SEMO). While these organizations operate independently and are governed by separate board of directors, their operations and services benefit from this model. Alone, organizations may be able to navigate the current tumultuous healthcare environment, but we believe that together we can do so much more than survive. Our communities need us now more than ever, and by working together we are ready to answer their call for years to come.

Brightli Snapshot

• 200 locations

• 4 states

• 19 subsidiaries and/or affiliates

• 5k+ employees