This is entry-level professional counseling work within the Rehabilitation Field Program or in a rehabilitation facility. Work includes learning and gaining experience in negotiating with and counseling clients, families, and with other professionals to assist in effecting emotional adjustments to disabilities, to determine client eligibility, to develop realistic rehabilitation goals and plans, to provide vocational guidance concerning employment and training requirements, trends and opportunities. Work also includes determining the spectrum of services needed to sustain employment, such as accessible housing and transportation, medical care, education and training, legal advocacy and recreation.
Some positions specialize in transition planning for high school special education students.
They are often physically removed from their supervisor and subject to only periodic checks. Usually positions that require planning, developing, and coordinating programs and directing fairly large groups of people fall into this category. Work is of a standardized nature that may involve a variety of duties. Analytical thought becomes more important at this level due to increased data and changing situations. Tasks usually have several steps, some of which may not be directly related.