The Senior Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor position is responsible for providing independent professional vocational rehabilitation counseling to individuals with a diversity of disabilities in order that they may attain employment; providing and coordinating complex services; and providing technical assistance on vocational rehabilitation issues to internal and external customers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Attainment of a Master’s or Doctoral degree from an accredited college or university in a field of study such as vocational rehabilitation counseling, law, psychology, disability studies, business administration, human resources, special education, management, public administration, or another field that reasonably provides confidence in the employment sector, in a disability field, or in both business-related and rehabilitation-related fields
- Years of Experience: For each year of work experience required in the qualifications, an applicant shall have 12 months of full-time work experience to receive credit for an entire year.
- Direct work with individuals with disabilities in a setting such as an independent living center, direct service for advocacy activities, direct experience as an employer, direct experience as a small business owner or operator, direct experience in self employment, experience in human resources, experience in recruitment, experience in supervising employees, experience in training, experience in other activities that provide experience in competitive integrated employment environments
Benefits
- State of Florida Retirement
- 10 Paid Holidays annually
- Employees with up to 5 years of creditable service earn 8.667 hours per month, with 5 to 10 years earn 10.833 hours per month and those with over 10 years of service earn 13 hours per month
- Career Service employees earn 8.667 hours of sick leave credits per month
- Health Insurance for Individual or Family Coverage – State pays 80% of premium
- Life Insurance – State pays premium for $25,000 basic term life insurance for full time employee
- Additional supplemental insurances available such as dental, vision, etc.
- Tax Deferred Medical and Child Care Reimbursement Accounts available
- Tax Deferred Savings Program available through payroll deduction
