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134960

REHABILITATION COUNSELOR--ENTRY

SS411     $35,734 - $64,314
Creation Date: 06/29/1987
Change Date: 01/01/2025

FUNCTION OF WORK:
To provide eligible rehabilitation consumers with beginning professional, counseling, guidance, training, vocational alternatives, and placement services resulting in gainful employment and/or self-sufficiency.
LEVEL OF WORK:
Entry
SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
Close from a Rehabilitation District Supervisor and functional from a Rehabilitation Counselor, Rehabilitation Counselor- Master or Specialist.
SUPERVISION EXERCISED:
May have direct-line over Rehabilitation Counselor Associate or support staff.
JOB DISTINCTIONS:
Differs from Rehabilitation Counselor by type of supervision received and lack of independence of action.
CORE COMPETENCIES:
IDENTIFIED BY STATE CIVIL SERVICE, CORE COMPETENCIES ARE THE KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES AND BEHAVIORS BASED ON THE WORK TASKS OUTLINED IN THE EXAMPLES OF WORK. MORE INFORMATION ON THE SCS COMPETENCY MODEL CAN BE FOUND HERE.

Demonstrating Accountability	Displaying Expertise	Driving Results
Focusing on Customers	Following Policies and Procedures	Learning Actively
Managing Performance	Networking	Pursuing Professional Development
Thinking Critically	Training Others

EXAMPLES OF WORK:
EXAMPLES BELOW ARE A BRIEF SAMPLE OF COMMON DUTIES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS JOB TITLE. NOT ALL POSSIBLE TASKS ARE INCLUDED.

Performs rehabilitation casework at a beginning professional level with supervisory review utilizing newly acquired knowledge, skills, and techniques to enable a disabled individuals with disabilities (i.e. learning disabled, epilepsy, personality disorders, mood disorders, serious burn victims, orthopedic impairments, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, traumatic brain injured, etc.) to successfully interface with his or her total environment - both social and vocational.

Assesses functional limitations and vocational potential of eligible rehabilitation consumers, interpreting psychological and specialized medical information, and utilizing comprehensive vocational evaluations assessments, with supervisory review.

Counsels consumers, family members, significant others, etc. relative to physical restoration, implications of prognosis, and social/psychological adjustments to facilitate independence, and arranges for ancillary services as needed.

Provides counseling, guidance, training, vocational alternatives, and placement services, with supervisory review, to achieve the consumers individualized rehabilitation goal, adhering to all state and federal laws and regulations, and agency policies and procedures.

Conducts less complex psychosocial evaluations with supervisory review aimed at assessing rehabilitation problems and needs manifested in various disabilities.

Develops knowledge base of medical aspects of disabilities to include significant consequences and complications, functional problems and social implications.

Utilizes acquired rehabilitation knowledge in the technical formulation and monitoring of contractual agreements for individualized plans based on each consumers specific disability, interests, skills and goals, with supervisory review.

Assists in conducting workshops, and provides individual counseling to assist consumers with improving interpersonal skills, understanding the labor market, and achieving gainful employment and/or self-sufficiency.

Develops knowledge of various therapeutic modalities to remove or accommodate disabilities to the extent possible utilizing physical/mental restoration, adaptive devices, etc.

Interprets medical and psychological information utilizing acquired knowledge of physical and mental capabilities, medical aspects of disabilities, significant consequences and complications, functional problems, and social implications.

Collaborates and consults with other agencies, health professionals, educators, vocational evaluators, and community leaders to achieve each consumers plan of rehabilitation.

Develops and maintains knowledge of labor market information to assist consumers with job placement. Confers with public and private employers to establish job opportunities for consumers. Aids consumers in securing employment consistent with their goal.

Maintains required documentation of casework activities and ensures confidentiality of case information.

Supervises work of paraprofessional staff in completion of caseload support duties critical to the successful rehabilitation of consumers. Evaluates performance and provides guidance.

Attends training to develop and maintain knowledge and skills which requires in-state travel, to include overnight stays, and may require out-of-state travel.

Performance of duties involves field travel which requires possession of a valid drivers license unless a reasonable accommodation is made.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
A bachelor's degree plus one year of experience in rehabilitation services, social services, administrative services, therapy services, or nursing; OR

A bachelor's degree in a rehabilitation field, a social sciences field, social work, education, nursing, health and human services, speech therapy, or business administration; OR

A master's degree.