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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Counsel individuals to maximize the independence and employability of persons coping with personal, social, and vocational difficulties that result from birth defects, illness, disease, accidents, or the stress of daily life. Coordinate activities for residents of care and treatment facilities. Assess client needs and design and implement rehabilitation programs that may include personal and vocational counseling, training, and job placement. | Monitor and record clients' progress to ensure that goals and objectives are met. | |||
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Confer with clients to discuss their options and goals so that rehabilitation programs and plans for accessing needed services can be developed. | ||||
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Prepare and maintain records and case files, including documentation such as clients' personal and eligibility information, services provided, narratives of client contacts, and relevant correspondence. | ||||
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Arrange for physical, mental, academic, vocational, and other evaluations to obtain information for assessing clients' needs and developing rehabilitation plans. | ||||
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Analyze information from interviews, educational and medical records, consultation with other professionals, and diagnostic evaluations to assess clients' abilities, needs, and eligibility for services. | ||||
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Develop rehabilitation plans that fit clients' aptitudes, education levels, physical abilities, and career goals. | ||||
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Maintain close contact with clients during job training and placements to resolve problems and evaluate placement adequacy. | ||||
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Develop and maintain relationships with community referral sources, such as schools and community groups. | ||||
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Locate barriers to client employment, such as inaccessible work sites, inflexible schedules, and transportation problems, and work with clients to develop strategies for overcoming these barriers. | ||||
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Arrange for on-site job coaching or assistive devices, such as specially equipped wheelchairs, to help clients adapt to work or school environments. | ||||
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Confer with physicians, psychologists, occupational therapists, and other professionals to develop and implement client rehabilitation programs. | ||||
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Develop diagnostic procedures to determine clients' needs. | ||||
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Participate in job development and placement programs, contacting prospective employers, placing clients in jobs, and evaluating the success of placements. | ||||
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Collaborate with clients' families to implement rehabilitation plans such as behavioral, residential, social, and employment goals. | ||||
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Collaborate with community agencies to establish facilities and programs for persons with disabilities. | ||||
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Direct case service allocations, authorizing expenditures and payments. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Rehabilitation Counselors
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Psychology | Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders. | |||
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Therapy and Counseling | Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance. | |||
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Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. | |||
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Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Personnel and Human Resources | Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems. | |||
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English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. | |||
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Sociology and Anthropology | Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins. | |||
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Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. | |||
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Law and Government | Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Systems Analysis | Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. | |||
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Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. | |||
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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Operations Analysis | Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Persuasion | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. | |||
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Negotiation | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. | |||
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Systems Evaluation | Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Learning Strategies | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. | |||
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Management of Personnel Resources | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. | |||
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Science | Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). | |||
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Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Budgeting software | Accounting software | |||
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Chart Links software | Medical software | |||
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Client System | Medical software | |||
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Client information database software | Medical software | |||
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Data input software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Email software | Electronic mail software | |||
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Encryption software | Transaction security and virus protection software | |||
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Global positioning system GPS software | Mobile location based services software | |||
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Microsoft ActiveSync | Mobile operator specific application software | |||
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Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Microsoft Internet Explorer | Internet browser software | |||
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Microsoft Mobile Explorer MME | Internet browser software | |||
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Microsoft Office Mobile | Office suite software | |||
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Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile | Electronic mail software | |||
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Microsoft Office software | Office suite software | |||
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Microsoft Word | Word processing software | |||
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Netscape Navigator | Internet browser software | |||
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Scheduling software | Calendar and scheduling software | |||
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Spreadsheet software | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Test interpretation software | Analytical or scientific software | |||
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Virus protection software | Transaction security and virus protection software | |||
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Voice recognition software | Voice recognition software | |||
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Web browser software | Internet browser software | |||
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WebIS Pocket Informant | Calendar and scheduling software | |||
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Word processing software | Word processing software | |||
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Word recognition software | Voice recognition software | |||
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Alternative computer keyboards | Keyboards | |||
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Alternative mouse options | Computer mouse or trackballs | |||
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Calculators | Calculators or accessories | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Fax Machines | Facsimile machines | |||
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Global positioning system GPS devices | Global positioning system receivers | |||
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Laser pointers | Lasers | |||
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Laser printers | Laser printers | |||
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Liquid crystal display LCD projectors | Liquid crystal display projector | |||
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Notebook computers | Notebook computers | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Personal digital assistants PDA | Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers | |||
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Photocopiers | Photocopiers | |||
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Scanners | Scanners | |||
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Smartphones | Mobile phones | |||
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Tablet computers | Tablet computers | |||
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Voice output communication aids | Voice synthesizers for the physically challenged | |||
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Voice over internet protocol VoIP systems | Digital Telephones | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Related Work Experience | Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years | |||
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Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Up to and including 1 month | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Case Management Coordinator | |||
Case Manager | |||
Certified Rehabilitation Counselor | |||
Coordinator of Rehabilitation Services | |||
Counselor | |||
Developmental Training Counselor | |||
Direct Care Counselor | |||
Director of Rehabilitation | |||
Disability Counselor | |||
Disability Program Navigator | |||
Employment Case Manager | |||
Employment Instructional Associate (EIA) | |||
Employment Trainer | |||
Group Counselor | |||
Group Home Counselor | |||
Homemaking Rehabilitation Consultant | |||
Human Services Care Specialist | |||
Job Developer | |||
Job Placement Consultant | |||
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) | |||
Medical Social Worker | |||
Placement Coordinator | |||
Program Coordinator | |||
Psychosocial Rehabilitation Counselor | |||
Psychotherapist | |||
Qualified Mental Retardation Professional (QMRP) | |||
Rehabilitation Counselor | |||
Rehabilitation Engineer | |||
Rehabilitation Specialist | |||
Rehabilitation Technician | |||
Residence Counselor | |||
Service Coordinator | |||
Supportive Employment Case Manager | |||
Training Specialist | |||
Transition Specialist | |||
Veterans Rehabilitation Counselor | |||
Vocational Case Manager | |||
Vocational Counselor | |||
Vocational Evaluator | |||
Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant | |||
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor (VCR) | |||
Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist | |||
Vocational Services Specialist | |||
Work Counselor | |||
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