Home Services Program Counselor Trainee
Illinois Department of Human Services · Bloomington, IL · 4 wk ago
OTHR$64k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: Use
for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We need to parse the posting. Given text includes: - Agency: Illinois Department of Human Services - Job Requisition ID: 58290 - Number of Vacancies: 1 - County: McLean - Opening Date: 9/22/2026 - Closing Date: 10/05/2026 - Location: Bloomington, Illinois, 61704 - Work Hours: Mon-Fri, 8:30am-5pm, 1 hour unpaid lunch. - Salary: Anticipated Salary $5,328-$7,480/month ($63,936-$89,760/year) - Headquarter Location: 207 S Prospect Rd, Bloomington, Illinois, 61704 Division of Rehabilitation Services Bureau of Customer and Community Field Services Region 3 - Agency Contact: ***MUST APPLY ONLINE ***** (but we drop application instructions) - This position is a union position; therefore, provisions of the relevant collective bargaining agreement/labor contract apply to the filling of this position. - While not required, a Resume/Curriculum Vitae (CV) is recommended. - When applicable, titles that require specific coursework, professional license or certification will include a notation requesting the appropriate document(s) be uploaded in the Additional Documents section of your application. Failure to upload requested transcripts, license and/or proof of certification when specified may result in ineligibility. - Please note that the Department of Human Services must verify proof of higher education for any degree earned (if applicable) regardless of vacancy title before any offer can be extended. - Applications submitted via email or any paper manner (mail, fax, hand delivery) will not be considered. - Why Work for Illinois? (some generic benefits) - Position Overview (description) - Essential Functions (list) - Conditions of Employment (list) - About the Agency: (description) We need to extract substantive content for sections: About the role (maybe Position Overview), Responsibilities (Essential Functions), Requirements (maybe Conditions of Employment? Or qualifications?), Qualifications (maybe education verification?), Skills (maybe communication skills, detail-oriented, self-motivated), Benefits (Why Work for Illinois? includes benefits), Pay (salary), Schedule (Work Hours). Also maybe include About the Agency as part of About the role? But we have heading "About the role". Could combine Position Overview and About the Agency? The instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we need to decide which sections have content. Let's map: - About the role: Could be Position Overview + maybe Agency description? The Position Overview describes role. We'll put that under About the role. - Responsibilities: Essential Functions list. - Requirements: Conditions of Employment (travel, ability to physically access home, etc.) plus maybe union position note? Also maybe "While not required, a Resume/CV is recommended" is not a requirement. Also "must verify proof of higher education" is a requirement? Could be under Requirements. - Qualifications: Could be education verification? Or maybe "self-motivated and detail-oriented individual with good communication skills" is more Skills. Qualifications could be "must be able to travel", etc. But we already used Conditions of Employment for travel. Might need to differentiate: Requirements often are mandatory (e.g., ability to travel, physical access). Qualifications could be preferred (e.g., self-motivated, detail-oriented, good communication). However the instruction says prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. We could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one? But headings are predefined; we should only include sections if there is real specific content. We could include both Requirements and Qualifications if we have content. Let's extract: Requirements (mandatory): - Ability to travel to individuals' home to interview applicants to determine initial eligibility and to monitor and re-evaluate services for DRS Home Services Program. - Ability to physically access and visually assess the home environment for suitability and planning of services. - Must be able to verify proof of higher education for any degree earned (if applicable) before any offer can be extended. - Union position: provisions of relevant collective bargaining agreement apply. - Must apply online (but that's application instruction, we drop). - While not required, a Resume/CV is recommended (not mandatory). - Must upload requested transcripts, license, proof of certification if specified (but that's conditional). - Applications via email/paper not considered (drop). Qualifications (preferred/desired): - Self-motivated - Detail-oriented - Good communication skills - Commitment to valuing diversity, equity, accessibility, and racial justice (contribute to inclusive environment) - Possibly experience? Not specified. Skills: - Good communication skills (already) - Detail-oriented - Self-motivated - Ability to utilize case management system (studies and becomes proficient) - Ability to attend meetings, conferences, works ops, in-service training. - Ability to perform other duties as assigned. Benefits: - Why Work for Illinois? paragraph mentions: values of compassion, equity, dedication; flexible jobs; gold standard of benefits; various avenues to advance careers; top-tier benefits and great retirement packages. Pay: - Anticipated Salary $5,328-$7,480/month ($63,936-$89,760/year) Schedule: - Work Hours: Mon-Fri, 8:30am-5pm, 1 hour unpaid lunch. We also have location etc. Could be included in About the role? Not required but could be in a short paragraph. However we must not repeat job title as heading. We can include location in a
maybe under About the role. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. We'll produce sections:
About the role
Position overview text + location + agency description maybe.
Responsibilities
- ...
Requirements
- ...
Qualifications
- ...
Skills
- ...
Benefits
Why Work for Illinois? paragraph.
Pay
Salary info.
Schedule
Work hours.
We need to ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the exact details? We can paraphrase but must keep meaning. Probably okay to rephrase slightly but not lose detail. Let's extract exact sentences. Position Overview: "The Division of Rehabilitation Services (DRS) is the states lead division serving people with disabilities committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and racial justice. The mission of the Division is to assist individuals with disabilities in achieving their goals of employment, education, and independent living. This position coordinates customer case records and documents in a field office pertaining to the service delivery activities to customers in the Bureau of Customer and Community Field Services/Home Services Program. This position will receive formal and informal training not to exceed twelve months to learn the rules, regulations, and policies of the Home Services Program to ultimately manage a caseload providing services to individuals with disabilities to remain independent in their home and community. Demonstrates commitment to valuing diversity, equity, accessibility, and racial justice by contributing to an inclusive learning and working environment. The Division of Rehabilitation Services is seeking to hire a self-motivated and detail-oriented individual with good communication skills." We can include that. Location: "Location: Bloomington, Illinois, 61704". Also Headquarter Location: "207 S Prospect Rd, Bloomington, Illinois, 61704 Division of Rehabilitation Services Bureau of Customer and Community Field Services Region 3". Could combine. Agency description: "About the Agency: The Illinois Department of Human Services serves families in need all across Illinois. Our mission is providing equitable access to social services, supports, programs and resour" (cut off). We'll include what we have. Now Responsibilities (Essential Functions): - Serves as a Home Services Program (HSP) Counselor Trainee in the Division of Rehabilitation Services (DRS), Bureau of Customer and Community Field Services. - Studies and becomes proficient in utilizing the Division's case management system. - Attends and participates in staff meetings, conferences, works ops, and in-service training related to the discipline of rehabilitation counseling and the home services program. - Performs other duties as assigned or required which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above. We need to keep the exact phrasing. Requirements (Conditions of Employment + other mandatory): - Requires ability to travel to individuals home to interview applicants to determine initial eligibility and to monitor and revaluate services for DRS Home Services Program. - Requires the ability to physically access and visually assess the home environment for suitability and planning of services. - All conditions of employment listed are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description. - While not required, a Resume/Curriculum Vitae (CV) is recommended. (This is not mandatory, maybe put under Qualifications? but it's not required.) - When applicable, titles that require specific coursework, professional license or certification will include a notation requesting the appropriate document(s) be uploaded in the Additional Documents section of your application. Failure to upload requested transcripts, license and/or proof of certification when specified may result in ineligibility. - Please note that the Department of Human Services must verify proof of higher education for any degree earned (if applicable) regardless of vacancy title before any offer can be extended. - Applications submitted via email or any paper manner (mail, fax, hand delivery) will not be considered. (This is application instruction, we should drop per instruction: remove application instructions.) - This position is a union position; therefore, provisions of the relevant collective bargaining agreement/labor contract apply to the filling of this position. We need to drop application instructions: "Applications submitted via email or any paper manner (mail, fax, hand delivery) will not be considered." Also "While not required, a Resume/CV is recommended." is not mandatory but could be under Qualifications. We also need to drop "MUST APPLY ONLINE" etc. Thus Requirements list includes travel, physical access, union position, verification of higher education, document upload requirement (if applicable). We'll keep those. Qualifications (preferred): - Self-motivated - Detail-oriented - Good communication skills - Commitment to valuing diversity, equity, accessibility, and racial justice (contribute to inclusive learning and working environment) Skills: - Ability to utilize Division's case management system (studies and becomes proficient) - Ability to attend and participate in staff meetings, conferences, works ops, and in-service training related to rehabilitation counseling and home services program. - Ability to perform other duties as assigned or required within scope. But some of these overlap with responsibilities. Might be thin. Perhaps we can combine Skills into Responsibilities? But we need to follow instruction: only include sections if posting has real specific content. Skills could be derived from responsibilities; but we can still include if we have content. Alternatively, we could omit Skills section and put those under Responsibilities. But the instruction says we can choose which sections to include; we should prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe we omit Skills and put those details under Responsibilities. However we already have Responsibilities list; we could add those as additional bullet points. But the responsibilities already cover serving as HSP Counselor Trainee, studying case management system, attending meetings, performing other duties. That's basically the skills. So we can keep Responsibilities as is and not