Overview

Job DescriptionJob DescriptionPrimary Position Objective Responsible for delivering counseling services to assigned residential and non-residential students in personal and social development, career employment, and behavior. Provides individual and group counseling and crisis intervention to all students.Brief Description of Duties Contact assigned students prior to scheduled arrival to welcome them, and provide information about the center, reiterating behavioral standards and expectations, following the center script to ensure students are fully aware, ready and capable to successfully enroll and complete the programMeet and greet assigned arrivals at the designated time on the center or at the determined travel termination point, as assigned.Provide ongoing intensive interventions with students accumulating NIRs, unexcused absences, intervention case notes.Conduct and document an intake assessment, including student history, during the first 24 hours of enrollment. A copy of this assessment will be submitted to the Health and Wellness center for review and inclusion in the student health record.Provide ongoing structured, scheduled, and documented individual social development and adjustment counseling weekly during CPP (first 60 days) and monthly thereafter. Document sessions in case-notes.Schedule and conduct monthly group support sessions designed to identify and address specific issues, such as abuse, relationships, child care, homesickness, language and cultural barriers, etc.Ensures that each assigned student attends a group or enhancement programProvide support, collaboration with other staff, weekly contact with CPP students (first 60 days), establish and develop personal and career goals, ensure early separations (pre-90 days) are diminished.Establish positive interventions with individuals and groups of students performing positively, to include activities and interactions both on and off-center.Manage and monitor case load with frequent CTT and academic classroom visits to observe students, interact with staff.Collaborate with residential, recreation, career transition and instructional staff to case manage student progress, concerns and achievement of PCDP and other goals etc.Identify students who need more intensive services and referral to such services, ensuring intervention, implementation, and documentation of strategies to address personal issues, including mental health, medical issues, and English Language Learners.Ensure that maintenance of records of individual counseling sessions are documented in case notes in the RAP format: 1. The Reason for such session, 2. An Assessment, and 3. A Plan of action with appropriate follow-up.Ensure all documentation occurs same day as contact - exceptions are not the rule and kept to a minimum.Ensure all interventions (both positive and negative) are documented appropriately in case notes or counseling file, if appropriateImplement safeguards to assure that personal information about individual students, subject to the Privacy Act, and advising student of the same.Collaborate with each student to initiate a Personal Career Development Plan (PCDP), which shall document the student's personal career goals, training needs, challenges, and progress and accomplishments throughout enrollment and the post-center Career Transition Period.Update student's Personal Career Development Plan (PCDP) on an ongoing basis, in cooperation with appropriate staff, no less frequently than at each student's regularly scheduled progress evaluation. The PCDP shall be updated and maintained using the Job Corps automated system. Students shall be provided copies of their PCDPs whenever changes are made to the plan the availability of counseling services on weekends and in the event of emergencies.Provides support services, to include assisting with UA retrieval; conferring with parents, admissions counselors, career transition specialists, and social service agencies; and providing referrals