View Point Health is seeking a full-time Job & Educational Coach to join the Paula Crane Life Enrichment Center. The Job & Educational Coach provides individualized employment, career-development, and educational support to adults receiving services for substance use disorders. The coach helps participants identify strengths, interests, and goals; overcome barriers to employment and education; develop practical skills; and build sustainable pathways toward self-sufficiency and long-term recovery.
Working as part of an interdisciplinary recovery team, the Job & Educational Coach uses a strengths-based, trauma-informed, person-centered, and recovery-oriented approach. The position supports participants in developing realistic goals while recognizing that employment and education can be important components of stability, purpose, confidence, and successful recovery.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Employment & Career Coaching
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Conduct individualized vocational assessments to identify participants' interests, strengths, skills, work history, and employment goals.
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Assist participants with developing individualized employment and career plans.
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Help participants identify appropriate job opportunities based on their skills, interests, recovery needs, and career goals.
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Provide assistance with resumes, cover letters, applications, interview preparation, and professional communication.
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Teach workplace skills, including punctuality, communication, conflict resolution, problem-solving, teamwork, and workplace expectations.
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Provide job-search strategies and connect participants with employers, workforce-development programs, staffing agencies, and community resources.
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Schedule and transport individuals to interviews, job fairs, appointments and community activities, such as shopping, banking, support groups, etc. to support the participants with achieving employment and educational goals.
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Support participants in addressing employment barriers such as gaps in employment, limited work experience, transportation, criminal-legal history, lack of identification, or limited education.
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Provide appropriate post-placement support to promote job retention and career advancement.
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Help participants explore career pathways, apprenticeships, vocational training, certifications, and other workforce opportunities.
Educational Support
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Help participants identify educational and training goals, including GED/high-school equivalency, college, vocational training, certification programs, and continuing education.
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Connect participants with adult education programs, colleges, trade schools, workforce programs, and financial-aid resources.
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Assist participants with applications, enrollment processes, educational planning, and navigating institutional requirements.
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Help participants develop study skills, time-management strategies, goal-setting skills, and academic routines.
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Provide individual and group supportive coaching to individuals concerning their needs and problems, and issues with personal and social development.
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Lead educational and skill-building group sessions.
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Support participants in balancing education, employment, treatment, family responsibilities, and recovery.
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Encourage continued learning and skill development as part of long-term recovery and personal growth.
Recovery-Oriented Support
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Establish trusting, respectful relationships with participants while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.
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Use motivational interviewing and other evidence-informed coaching approaches to support participant engagement and self-directed goal setting.
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Incorporate recovery principles, harm-reduction approaches, and trauma-informed practices into coaching services.
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Recognize the impact that substance use, trauma, mental health challenges, and other life circumstances may have on employment and educational goals.
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Encourage participants to identify strengths, build confidence, and recognize progress.
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Support participants in developing practical strategies for managing recovery-related challenges in educational and workplace settings.
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Coordinate with counselors, peer recovery specialists, case managers, clinicians, and other members of the treatment team as appropriate.
Documentation & Case Coordination
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Maintain timely, accurate, and confidential documentation of coaching services, participant goals, progress, referrals, and outcomes.
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Participate in treatment/recovery team meetings and communicate relevant progress and barriers while maintaining confidentiality.
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Develop and update individualized employment and educational goals in accordance with program requirements.
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Track employment, educational enrollment, training completion, and other participant outcomes.
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Maintain current knowledge of community employment, education, training, and supportive-service resources.
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Follow all applicable organizational policies, confidentiality requirements, ethical standards, and federal/state regulations.
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Other related duties as assigned.
