Voc Rehab Counselor

Kentucky Personnel Cabinet • Glasgow, KY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Education and Labor Cabinet’s mission is to educate, prepare, and train Kentucky's current and future workforces, while continuously improving the education and workforce system and helping businesses find skilled workers. The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation empowers individuals with disabilities to maximize employment, achieve economic self-sufficiency and independence, and contribute to society. It also helps businesses recruit, retain, and accommodate employees with disabilities.

The Voc Rehab Counselor provides professional vocational rehabilitation services, including eligibility determination, guidance and counseling, and caseload management oversight for people with disabilities seeking gainful employment. The role involves assessing consumers, planning and coordinating services, arranging employment support, maintaining case documentation, and traveling throughout the district. The position has access to confidential and sensitive information and requires safeguarding it in accordance with applicable policies, training, acknowledgments, statutes, and requirements during and after employment.

Work is performed primarily in an office setting, with occasional travel to coordinate services between customers and the agency. The position is full-time, 37.5 hours per week, and eligible for overtime pay. It has an initial and promotional probationary period of six months, except as provided in KRS 18A.111.

Requirements

• A master's degree from a college or university in rehabilitation, rehabilitation teaching or therapy, guidance and/or counseling, psychology, sociology, orientation and mobility, social work, special education, education with an emphasis in vocational counseling, disability studies, behavioral science, human services, vocational assessment, addiction counseling, addiction studies, or a related field.
• Alternatively, a bachelor's degree plus two additional years of professional experience in a listed or related field may substitute for the required master's degree. Listed fields include rehabilitation, rehabilitation teaching or therapy, vocational assessment, employer relations, rehabilitation technology, rehabilitation counseling, vocational evaluation, supported employment, job placement, guidance and/or counseling, psychology, sociology, orientation and mobility, social work, special education, education with an emphasis in vocational counseling, customized employment, health studies, human relations, human resources, occupational therapy, physical therapy, school counseling, addiction studies, and addiction counseling.
• No experience, training, or skills are required when meeting the education requirement.
• No special age, licensure, or regulatory requirements are specified.
• Ability to safeguard confidential and sensitive information and comply with applicable requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide vocational counseling; assess consumers; collect, evaluate, and interpret medical, psychological, vocational, and other reports to determine eligibility and service needs; and coordinate consumer appointments.
• Ensure job placement is consistent with consumers’ strengths, abilities, and interests, and coordinate job coaching and other services provided by professionals.
• Plan and coordinate vocational rehabilitation services based on assessments and Individual Plans for Employment (IPE); explain services, service providers, responsibilities, and terms to consumers; monitor caseload budgets; and assess rehabilitation technology needs.
• Develop and maintain case documentation; interpret and apply agency policies, procedures, and state and federal laws; enter data in the Case Management System; and travel throughout the district to provide services.
• Develop referrals, perform basic public relations functions, and partner with organizations, schools, physicians, and others throughout the district to arrange consumer services.
• Safeguard confidential and sensitive information, complete required training and acknowledgments, and comply with applicable policies, statutes, and requirements during and after employment.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level