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Rehabilitation Counselor
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 5 days ago
About the Role
The Rehabilitation Counselor is responsible for the delivery of rehabilitation services to promote and support optimal functioning and development of veterans by utilizing appropriate counseling and training. The Rehabilitation Counselor provides services on behalf of Veterans in any of the vocational rehabilitation program settings.
What You'll Do
- →FUNCTIONS OR SCOPE OF ASSIGNED DUTIES: Serves as a Rehabilitation Counselor providing personal adjustment counseling, therapeutic rehabilitation interventions, and case coordination services.
- →Uses evidence-informed and evidence-based modalities to aid Veterans with severe disabilities, such as physical, psychosocial, psychological, or neurological barriers, integrate successfully into the community.
- →Serves Veterans who have myriad barriers to overcome and achieve competitive employment, educational, and independent living goals.
- →Uses effective counseling skills to promote self-awareness, adjustment to disability, enhanced job retention and successful integration to the community.
- →Conducts biopsychosocial assessment using medical records, pertinent disability documentation, observation and interviews with Veterans and their support systems to generate personal, vocational, and educational histories.
- →Selects, administers, and interprets psychometric assessments and vocational instruments to evaluate abilities, transferrable skills, aptitudes, interests, values, preferences, and overall work resilience.
- →Customizes vocational exploration activities, including informational interviews and labor market research, to identify self-determined rehabilitation needs and goals.
- →Administers Measurement Based Care instrument to track progress throughout treatment and goals and services as needed.
- →Consults with interdisciplinary teams to enhance coordination of care, ensure medical clearance, and provide for optimal timing of further interventions.
- →Synthesize assessment information to identify barriers to employment and their vocational implications.
- →Completes various quality assurance and improvement activities to improve services provided.
- →Determines clinical need for and capacity to benefit from therapeutic and rehabilitation services, including work restoration/resilience treatment, transitional work placement and compensation, financial benefits counseling, potential benefits protections, supported employment and assistive technology.
- →Develops patient-centered treatment plans, using Specific, Measurable, Agreed upon, Realistic, and Time-based (SMART) goals, and provides ongoing assessment of Veteran's progress.
- →Devises solutions to reduce and/or eliminate barriers and meet Veterans' placement needs which may require substantial modification to environmental of functional demands within a work setting.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓A valid driver's license is required.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
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