Job Description

WellPower provides you with the support you need to help you develop a career in helping others succeed. We innovate, adapt, and leverage the diverse perspectives of the people on our team and the people we serve in everything we do.

WellPower envisions a community where every person’s mental health is fostered through strength, resilience and hope. We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.

Our Guiding Principles:

• Person Centered. We honor people’s identities, lived experience and journeys and treat every person with the dignity we all deserve.
• Exceptional Care. We offer compassionate, innovative services that meet people where they are, from immediate support to long-term recovery.
• Integrity. We operate from a deep foundation of ethical, accountable practices in all we do.
• Organizational Resilience. We meet the moment and adapt to changing contexts with collaborative creativity, agile business processes, and financial stewardship.

Vocational Supporters perform a variety of functions related to vocational rehabilitation. Functions may include roles such as supervising vocational employees in the drop-in center, ensuring efficient daily market operation, events planning and execution, providing customer service, milieu management and similar activities. Responsible for rehabilitation activities which support consumers who want social interaction, engagement, or skills development.

Location: 1075 Galapago St, Denver CO

Compensation:

• Vocational Counselor I - $27.79
• Language Differential - $2.50/hr for bilingual proficiency in Spanish & ASL

Responsibilities & Job Duties

• Ability to work with people we serve with severe and persistent mental illness.
• Must understand people from all walks of life and be able to communicate with them while being strength based.
• Participate in pre-vocational partial care services and complete reporting pertaining to program measurable outcomes.
• Regularly and appropriately interacting with community members, clinical teams, care givers, staff.
• Ability to give, receive, analyze information, formulate work plans, prepare written materials and articulate goals of action plans
• Coordinate approaches to objectives and service supports through corresponding between the rehabilitation department and the clinical team.
• Monitor member progress and activities with members ensuring timely completion of accurate clinical documentation, member updates, and reports as required.
• Plan, coordinate, conduct and facilitate rehabilitative, goal-oriented educational and social opportunities, activities and events within the community and with the program.
• Practice person-centered, trauma informed care with member social interactions utilizing factors including but not limited to active listening and meeting people where they are at.
• Maintain a safe, serene, and trauma informed environment of wellbeing by exhibiting vigilance, situational awareness, crowd control, and de-escalation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to be an effective team-player, multi-task, manage stress, take initiative and be flexible and adaptable to changing program and community needs.
• Utilize efficient computer proficiency to support members working toward employment and recovery, including but not limited to technology access assistance, resume building, cellphone navigation or application completion.
• Routinely stocking and hygienically serving meals and drinks as needed for day-to-day needs including but not limited to lunch service, daily market and events.
• Housekeeping responsibilities including but not limited to light cleaning, coffee station management, and inventory stocking and tracking.
• Abide by program operating hours with punctuality and consistency.
• Participate in team and department meetings and complete all required trainings as assigned.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Qualifications:

• VC I: High School Diploma or GED

• Must have graduated successfully from 1 vocational trainee position at the WellPower Resource Center
• Must have or be able to obtain a Peer Specialist Certification within 6 months of hire

Typical Physical & Mental Demands:

Requires sitting, standing, bending and reaching. May require lifting up to 40 pounds. Requires manual dexterity sufficient to operate standard office machines such as computers, fax machines, the telephone and other office and/or clinical equipment.

Working Conditions

May do work in warehouse setting requiring safety shoes and required PPE.Work environment can be fast-paced and emotionally demanding, requiring adaptability and resilience. Noise level is generally moderate but may vary during peak patient flow.

Learn more about WellPower:

WellPower is committed to fair and equitable hiring with salaries based on relevant factors, such as work experience, education, and certification/licensure (rather than wage history). Toward the principle of equal pay for equal work, we post and hire within defined hiring salary ranges. We ask all applicants to carefully review the hiring salary range for each posted job opportunity, as we will not hire outside the predetermined range.

WellPower is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, transfer, or promotion opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

For a complete overview of our robust benefits, visit: https://wellpower.org/workplace-of-choice

Tuberculosis (TB) screening, testing - TB screening and testing, is required and must be completed prior to hire ( i.e., preplacement), and maintained during employment