Employment Counselor
Compensation
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Job Description
Job DetailsLevel: ExperiencedJob Location: Guilford ACT - Greensboro, NC 27407Position Type: Full TimeEducation Level: 4 Year DegreeTravel Percentage: NoneJob Shift: DayJob Category: Health Care*
Offering Retention Sign On Bonus to Applicable Candidates
- The Employment Counselor works as a member of a multi-disciplinary team. The Employment Counselor specializes in vocational rehabilitation and serves as the primary contact for all persons’ vocational assessments and plans. The primary duties of the Employment Counselor professional are to provide mental health, substance abuse, vocational, rehabilitative, case coordination, family counseling, and follow-along services to adult persistent and severely mentally ill persons who are currently within the Program. EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE: Bachelor’s Degree in social or behavioral science in a human services discipline with experience and training in employment counseling/rehabilitation support services. Experience serving persons with severe and persistent mental illness is also preferred.
Key Responsibilities
The Employment Counselor serves as a primary contact for vocational assessments and plans within a multi-disciplinary team. They provide mental health, substance abuse, and rehabilitative services to adults with severe and persistent mental illness.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a Bachelor’s degree in a social or behavioral science human services discipline. Experience in employment counseling or rehabilitation support services is required, with preference given to those experienced in serving individuals with severe mental illness.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Employment Counselor at PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC SERVICES a 8.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as excellent. This places the position in the top 5% in Mental Health (Counseling) — ranked against 31 active Mental Health (Counseling) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no night shifts.
Mental Health — Counselor Career Context
Of the 50 active Counselor listings this role was benchmarked against, 36% are remote, 42% have no call, 74% require no weekends.
Counselor pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.5% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
The cost-of-living index for North Carolina is 94.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 59.2% of North Carolina clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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- No nights
- On-site
Living in Greensboro
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $257k
- Typical market rent
- $1,392/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 22 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 92.9
- State income tax
- Up to 4.8%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Greensboro-High Point, NC metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.