Position Title: Counselor Reports To: Counseling Supervisor The Career Counselor position provides support for a U.S Department of Labor Job Corps contractor. The Job Corps program is a federally-funded residential training program. The mission of Job Corps is to provide career-ready technical and academic training and job placement assistance to program eligible youth ages 16-24.
Summary of Duties:
The Career Counselor is responsible for planning, coordinating, developing and implementing a professional, personal, social development and career counseling program for assigned students
Key Areas of Responsibilities:
- Follows all integrity guidelines and procedures and ensures no manipulation of student data.
- Provides career counseling services to students in accordance with Center plan.
- Provides ongoing structured, scheduled and documented individual career counseling sessions, which may be scheduled as part of a student’s career development activity.
- Provides individual and group counseling sessions. Communicates progress information to student’s family and aids in solving problems related to transition and adjustment to Job Corps.
- Provides crisis counseling, including pregnancy counseling. Discusses sexual harassment and fraternization policy with students and counsels behavior as needed. Provides prompt resolution of any student’s issues or difficulties. Maintains an awareness and sensitivity to diversity. Develops Personal Career Development Plan (PCDP) with students and outline actions necessary to rectify any barriers to placement.
- Assists in Center adjustment and serves as a liaison between students, staff, family, and community services: Assists with students’ arrivals. Confers with parents, admissions counselors, CTS, social service agencies and other community resources to ensure adjustment to Center.
- Provides structured, scheduled, and documented individual social development and adjustment counseling. Develops counseling plan to address students’ negative behaviors and a plan to reward positive behavior. Develops system to share information with other staff, departments, and community resources in accordance with PRH as needed to ensure the coordinated delivery of services to students.
- Ensures that counseling services are effectively integrated and coordinate with other career preparation activities.
- Identifies student’s personal and academic issues so that the appropriate support can be provided.
- Makes training area, residential living, and recreational observations to identify student issues to provide appropriate support.
- Recommends referrals for psychiatric, medical, substance use and abuse evaluations and care. Refers students to other community agencies for training or services not provided by the Center. Determines barriers to career transition and documents these as appropriate.
- Ensures students’ accountability information is submitted accurately and within established time frames.
- Monitors students’ accountability to include leaves, attendance and AWOL retrieval.
- Maintains contact with all students who are in AWOL status and does everything to retrieve them from AWOL. Utilizes all staff resources to help students succeed.
- Administers students’ Evaluation of Student Progress (ESP). Ensures that each student has an evaluation by their 60th day on Center.
- Ensures that there is a formal evaluation prior to the student’s entry into CDP. Schedules special evaluations as necessary. Ensures that evaluations are included per the PRH and Center plan.
- Collaborate with students in setting, affirming, and/or revising short and long term training and realistic career goals and the process to obtain these goals. Students must be provided with special projects and/or activities to assist them in meeting Career Success Standards which have been determined to need improvement.
- Provides assistance in the development of the students’ Personal Career Development Plan (PCDP). Update PCDP whenever a student’s plan changes and in conjunction with each ESP. Updated PCDPs should be distributed to the students each time the plan has changed. Also provides all separation paperwork for each student.
- Ensures that students develop Career Success Standards (CSS) by providing individual and group lessons or project assignments during and after the training day and on weekends to help student’s master competencies in all standards with clearly established performance levels for these activities.
- Provide students with special projects and/or activities to assist them in meeting CSS which have been determined to need improvement.
- Provides accurate documentation of student’s matriculation throughout CPP: Ensures the case noting is used to describe each student’s progress, barriers, issues, etc. Ensures that regular communication is documented to include individual and group counseling sessions, AWOL retrieval efforts, ESP results, PCDP updates, leaves submitted accurately and timely as well as barriers to employability and transition.
- Plans, prioritizes and organizes assignments to meet established goals and deadlines.
- Understands and applies job knowledge to effectively complete all required job responsibilities. Proactively maintains the skills required to perform job duties.
- Shows respect and courtesy to students and holds them accountable for their actions and behavior.
- Provides quality programs and services for students and ensures that quality is maintained and student needs are met. Pursues improvement and enhancement of programs and services.
- Exchanges ideas and information, both orally and in writing, in a clear and concise manner and contributes meaningfully to group efforts by offering relevant ideas and knowledge. Provides quality and timely information to DOL/Company when requested.
- Effectively articulates thoughts and ideas. Identifies problems, analyzes causes and evaluates appropriate solutions prior to taking or recommending actions. Follows up to ensure prompt/appropriate action is taken and that problems are in fact corrected.
- Works in partnership with staff from all Departments to ensure effective supervision and services are provided to students.
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree with at least 15 semester hours of instruction in Social Services related area.
- One year’s experience in counseling related services.
Certifications/Licenses:
- Valid state driver’s license
- CPR/First Aid certifications
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