Job Description
Responsible for delivering counseling services to students during the Career Preparation Phase.
Primary/Major Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions):
Provides ongoing structured, scheduled and documented individual career counseling sessions.
Develops Personal Career Development Plan (PCDP) with students, and outlines actions necessary to achieve successful 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. Confers with guardians of minors within 72 hours of arrival on center to discuss students initial adjustment to program.
Provides structured, scheduled, and documented individual social development and adjustment counseling to all students who are identified as having adjustment issues to the program or are considered to be high risk.
Develops counseling plan to address students negative behaviors and a plan to reward positive behavior from the students initial enrollment until they transition out of the program.
Identifies students personal and academic issues so that the appropriate support can be provided.
Ensures students accountability information to include leaves, attendance and UA retrieval is submitted accurately and within established time frames.
Maintains contact with all students who are in UA status and does everything to retrieve them from UA.
Reviews attendance sheets for accuracy of documentation.
Administers students Evaluation of Student Progress (ESP) within PRH and Center guidelines. Ensures that each student has an evaluation by their 60th day on Center. Ensures that there is a formal evaluation prior to the students entry into CDP.
Ensures that students develop Career Success Standards (CSS): provides individual and group lessons or project assignments during and after the training day and on weekends to help students master competencies in all standards.
Provides accurate documentation of trainees matriculation throughout CPP. Ensures that regular communication is documented to include individual and group counseling sessions, UA retrieval efforts, and barriers to successful enrollment.
Secondary Duties and Responsibilities:
Provides crisis counseling, including pregnancy counseling. Provides prompt resolution of any students issues or difficulties.
Discusses sexual harassment and fraternization policy with trainees and counsels behavior as needed.
Participates in CMT.
Provide support to the Career Development Services System (CDSS) department to ensure student job readiness.
All other duties as assigned.
Required Education and Experience:
Bachelors Degree with at least 15 semester hours of instruction in Social Services related instruction.
One years experience in counseling or related field.
Valid state drivers license.
CPR/First Aid certifications
Preferred Education and Experience
Above average public speaking skills and experience in the same.
Above average verbal, written, problem solving, and conflict resolution skills.
Computer literacy; specifically internet, e-mail and Microsoft Suites.