Job Title: Vocational Career Advisor
The Vocational Career Advisor plays a crucial role in empowering individuals to achieve their career goals. This position involves assessing clients' skills, aptitudes, and needs to facilitate job readiness and employment search.
Key Responsibilities:
* Treatment planning, including work and educational history, and evaluating clients' job readiness and job search skills.
* Developing vocational/educational goals and objectives with clients, and providing or coordinating activities to help them achieve identified goals of securing employment and/or education.
* Communicating assessment information with colleagues at clients' treatment programs.
* Providing ongoing individual and group counseling to assist clients in making appropriate vocational/employment decisions, obtaining job readiness/employment, and maintaining employment.
* Assisting clients in obtaining necessary identification.
* Conducting virtual vocational seminars and group sessions to aid clients in vocational/employment decisions, developing soft skills, and enhancing job readiness skills.
* Conducting comprehensive vocational assessments for all clients transferring within the agency for Reintegration/Re-Entry Services.
* Utilizing assessment results to develop updated vocational/educational goals and objectives with clients.
* Preparing required reports and keeping statistics on clients vocationally assessed and services provided.
* Ensuring accurate, complete, timely, and high-quality client records that comply with external regulatory standards and agency policies.
* Complying with 42 CFR confidentiality and HIPAA privacy and security regulations.
* Participating in case conferences, team meetings, treatment planning meetings, in-service training, workshops, etc., as an integral member of the treatment team.
* Providing follow-up and post-job placement support services to clients, including linkages to transitional benefits.
* Developing and maintaining relationships with community-based educational, remedial, vocational, employment, and support resources.
* Adhering to all responsibilities and duties of a New York State mandated reporter.
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will possess a Bachelor's Degree in Human Services or a related field, such as Psychology, Sociology, or Counseling. A minimum of one year of demonstrated experience in an agency providing vocational rehabilitation counseling to substance users and/or clients in other types of behavioral healthcare settings is required. The successful candidate will also have strong vocational assessment, individual, and group vocational/job preparation skills. Additional qualifications include working knowledge of substance abuse treatment modalities and client self-help/support modalities, strong writing skills, computer literacy, and ability to maintain confidentiality. Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds is highly valued.
About the Agency:
This is a dynamic and comprehensive Health and Human Services Agency serving over 33,000 New Yorkers annually. As a leading provider of vocational rehabilitation services, we empower individuals to achieve their full potential and live fulfilling lives.