Supplemental Information

• Develop and foster professional relationships with employers, placement agencies, and temporary agencies to ensure consistent contact for job leads within the community.
• Match job seeking individuals and employers using a variety of professional job placement skills. May participate in the interview process. Facilitates completion of paperwork. Conducts work site visits to employers to ensure successful placement.
• Acts as a liaison between business, industry and commerce officials, and the regional rehabilitation counselor and other professional staff regarding job opportunities, labor market information, and specific job modifications, accommodations, etc. to facilitate the job placement of individual clients.
• Provide retention services to ensure person served success and employer satisfaction. Mediates or problem-solves individual/employer issues. Advocates for and negotiates performance plans. Facilitates disability and cultural awareness training with employers and site employees.

• Plan and assess individual work skills and training needs. Facilitate life skills and job search skills sessions. Provides individual support and encouragement to those served during job search process.
• Develop individualized placement plan of services and directs implementation of plan with each person served.
• Provide active case management assessment services, develop service plan. Counsels and guides person served in developing career and/or employment goals.

• Engage in public speaking to business and industry groups, and community and civic organizations to explain incentive programs (such as Targeted Jobs Tax Credit, On-The-Job Training, Supported Employment, etc.)
• Design and develop employment service marketing programs, such as presentations to businesses within the community to promote employment services programs and develops new jobs for persons served.
• Participate in special events such as job fairs, career days and other community awareness activities with other agencies, universities, schools and private sector enterprises.

• Maintain statistical data and provides feedback regarding successful job placements. Tracks program/grant required statistics and summarizes in report form.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

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  Communicating Effectively: The ability to relay information correctly and appropriately to connect people and ideas.
• Exhibiting Social Awareness: The ability to identify and adapt your actions based on the situation and the personality, behavior, and emotions of others.
• Managing Time: The ability to control your time to increase effectiveness, efficiency, or productivity.
• Thinking Critically: The ability to objectively question, analyze, interpret, and evaluate information to form a conclusion

Minimum Qualifications

Job Concepts

Function of Work:

To stimulate a market for jobs for the most extremely severely disabled and blind rehabilitation clients to include coordinating and facilitating the job placement of individual severely disabled clients.

Level of Work:

Advanced.

Supervision Received:

Broad review from a Rehabilitation Regional Manager.

Supervision Exercised:

Staff supervision over administrative support staff.

Location of Work:

May be used by state agencies with rehabilitation counseling functions.

Job Distinctions:

Differs from Rehabilitation Specialist by responsibility for marketing and job placement of the most extremely severely disabled clients as opposed to rehabilitation counseling responsibilities.

Differs from Rehabilitation District Supervisor by lack of line supervision over professional staff and lack of responsibility for managing an assigned district within a region.

Examples of Work

Conducts labor market surveys within assigned region.

Meets with management of industrial and commercial enterprises to explain the social and economic advantages of hiring severely disabled employees.

Performs job analysis studies and maintains files in order to match individual client abilities and limitations with specific job requirements.

Develops with each client an individualized placement plan of services and directs implementation of plan through completion.

Coordinates and conducts job seeking skills workshops/job clubs to increase the placement potential of severely disabled clients.

Plans and coordinates special events such as job fairs, career days and other community awareness activities with other agencies, universities, schools and private sector enterprises.

Engages in public speaking to business and industry groups, and community and civic organizations to explain incentive programs (such as Targeted Jobs Tax Credit, On-The-Job Training, Supported Employment, etc.)

Acts as a liaison between business, industry and commerce officials, and the regional rehabilitation counselor and other professional staff regarding job opportunities, labor market information, and specific job modifications, accommodations, etc. to facilitate the job placement of individual clients.

Prepares reports of activities and recommends additional or supplemental rehabilitation services needed to enhance an individual client's job placement readiness.

Maintains statistical data and provides feedback regarding successful job placements.