Rehabilitation Counselor Grade D

    Clerical and Technical generic job description

    Family: Clinical
    Job Code: 536

    Representative duties:

    • Provides rehabilitative counseling to a substance dependent population. Serves as a member of triage team. Writes patient treatment plans
    • Serves as a principal source of information on the program’s scope, function, eligibility requirements, and procedures
    • Obtains patient history and other related information
    • Selects and arranges for alternative services and refers clients to community agencies
    • Participates in staff meetings. Prepares patient evaluation for presentation
    • Participates in follow-up activities for patients
    • Maintains documentation and records of patient condition and progress. May prepare reports
    • Collects specimens
    • Performs additional functions incidental to rehabilitative activities

    The job duties listed above are representative and characteristic of the duties required and the level of the work performed in the job title. The duties will vary from incumbent to incumbent in the job title.

    Required knowledge:

    • Advanced knowledge, college-degree; substantial knowledge in a specialized field; substantial knowledge in a broader field of learning
    • Limited knowledge of the University organizational policies and procedures generally; detailed knowledge of a narrow area of University rules and procedures

    Required skills:

    • Extracts and compiles a broad range of data from a variety of written sources, personal contacts and/or data bases selected independently; interpretation/limited analysis of data
    • Use of one or several standard reference works
    • Summarizes, revises, or makes limited use of complex, technical, or specialized literature
    • Composes, proofreads, or edits formal general correspondence, memoranda, short reports, or grant applications for internal or external circulation
    • Occasional use of machines that require little training to operate
    • Performs one or several simple laboratory or scientific procedures that requires some training, but that can be reversed or duplicated inexpensively; records results as necessary

    Office and administrative skills:

    • Arranges for and coordinates schedules, appointments, projects, conferences, and major events
    • Advises, screens, and refers callers and visitors

    Experience, education, and formal training:

    • Two years of related work experience in the same job family and a Bachelor degree in a related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education

    Complexity and organization:

    • Wide variety of complicated job tasks requiring coordinating numerous processes/methods

    Interpersonal relations:

    • Ongoing involvement outside the immediate unit
    • Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on complex matters
    • Understands and evaluates what is being said and responds with complex answers that may take time to give

    Supervisory guidelines:

    • Work is subject to general review on an occasional basis
    • Incumbent plans and schedules own work and/or work of others based on the understanding of broadly defined objectives and priorities, supervisor reviews work after completion
    • Instruction provided only in very rare instances

    Independent judgment:

    • Established procedures/policies govern some work situations
    • Regular exercises of independent judgment or initiative
    • Problems cannot usually be solved by following established procedures; solutions must be found independently

    Leadership responsibility:

    • Occasionally provides general orientation to routine procedures/policies

    Impact and consequence of error:

    • Work has significant impact both on more than one department and outside the University
    • Errors are not necessarily recognizable and cannot always be corrected and can cause considerable harm or financial loss to individuals, departments and the University or to other individuals and groups

    Working conditions:

    • Ongoing possibility of safety risks
    • Regular multiple or conflicting demands, deadlines, emergencies, or time pressures
    • Regular sustained concentration
    • Little physical effort

    Example 1

    General purpose:

    Under the supervision of licensed mental health professionals at the West Haven Mental Health Clinic and the administrator of the juvenile justice center, provide evaluative, counseling, and case management services to clients with emotional, behavioral, and substance use problems referred to a community based center for teens involved with the juvenile court system.

    Essential duties of position:

    • Provide individual, group, and family counseling to assigned clients and their parents
    • Provide case management services to assigned clients and their parents.
    • Conduct psycho-educational groups with clients attending the program and their parents
    • Complete initial assessments of clients referred to the program
    • Plan, record, and review treatment plans for assigned clients
    • Monitor program attendance, compliance with court stipulations, and progress of assigned clients
    • Communicate with probation officers, attend court hearing, and visit assigned clients in juvenile detention
    • Arrange and advocate for other community services needed by assigned clients and their parents
    • Attend treatment team meetings and case conferences weekly
    • Attend individual supervision meetings weekly and participate in professional development seminars
    • Document services delivered and prepare clinical summaries
    • Assist with registration of new clients, complete client tracking forms, and assist with preparation of administrative reports concerning service delivery
    • Perform related or incidental functions related to the delivery of clinical rehabilitative services to assigned clients and their parents

    Experience and training:

    • Two years of related work experience in the same job family and a Bachelor’s degree in a related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education
    • Previous exposure to the juvenile justice system or clients involved with juvenile justice system in an employment or training settings
    • Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in social work, psychology, sociology, criminal justice, human service, or related field.
    • Previous experience working with adolescents in a clinical or community setting, particularly adolescents with emotional, behavioral, substance use, family, or legal problems. Course work in areas of substance abuse, criminology, marriage and family, sociology, developmental psychology, psychopathology, and counseling methods

    Skills and abilities:

    • Good interviewing skills
    • Good organizational skills
    • Ability to work independently in the community
    • Ability to establish rapport with adolescent clients and their parents
    • Offer contingent upon a post offer drug test and physical
    • Must have a valid CT driver’s license
    • Willingness to pursue in-service opportunities and clinical supervision designed to promote the development of effective counseling skills
    • Preferred: Knowledge of personal computers and use of computers to document service delivery in a clinical or community setting

    Example 2

    General purpose:

    Develop and implement a community marketing strategy to facilitate job placements and situational assessments for individuals recovering from psychiatric illness. Provide ongoing coordination and support to Business Advisory Council. Develop and maintain positive relationships with employees.

    Essential duties of the position:

    • Develop community-based competitive employment sites and evaluation sites for consumers: Conduct neighborhood survey of employers; schedule appointments to meet with employers to learn about employment needs, type of business, and hours of operation; educate employers about vocational rehabilitation, using the supported employment model; maintain relationships and assess employers’ needs through regular on-site visits or telephone contacts; follow up with employment leads provided by staff
    • Collaborate with WAGE staff regarding feedback on employment trends and employment opportunities for consumers: Report back to staff about positions available and anticipated openings; develop “user-friendly” database of employers and positions, accessible to both staff and clients
    • Work with Program Coordinator regarding management of Business Advisory Council: work with the Program Coordinator to identify participants for the Business Advisory Council; send out notices regarding meeting schedule (dates and times) and meeting minutes; record minutes at the meetings; coordinate refreshments for the meetings
    • Collaborate with WAGE staff to develop written marketing materials and oral presentations to community groups; work with Program Coordinator and staff to develop and update written program materials, i.e., brochures, information sheets; may lead or co-facilitate oral presentations to educate community groups about WAGE and supported employment services
    • Maintain relationships with companies and facilitate placement of clients: Visit employers on a regular basis to assess ongoing needs; follow up in a timely manner with employers who contact WAGE with job opportunities and available positions; accompany client and employment specialist on the interview to facilitate hiring process
    • Develop and maintain a database of employers and employment opportunities: enter and update all information regarding employers and employment opportunities
    • Co-facilitate employment workshops to prepare for employment: co-facilitate “Job Application” and “Interviewing” workshop with WAGE Program Coordinator or other staff member
    • Attendance and participation at selected supervisory, educational, and staff meetings: Attend weekly supervision with Program Coordinator; attend weekly staff meetings; attend meetings with WAGE’s psychiatric consultant; attend seminars, conferences, and workshops, as suggested by the Program Coordinator
    • Supervise participants at individual employment sites

    Education and experience:

    • Two years of related work experience in the same job family and a Bachelor’s degree in a related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education
    • Knowledge of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and an interest in educating employers and members of community-based organizations

    Skills and abilities:

    • Good organizational skills
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
    • Ability to work independently and collaboratively with staff
    • Comfortable working with people who have psychiatric disabilities
    • Knowledge of computers
    • Ability to establish relationships and communicate with people at all levels of authority, within the framework of a work environment
    • Must have valid driver’s license