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Rehabilitation Counselor
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 7 days ago
About the Role
The Rehabilitation Counselor (RC) serves as an advanced-practice, independent clinician responsible for providing comprehensive, evidence-based vocational rehabilitation services to Veterans with complex medical, psychosocial, and vocational needs. The RC provides expert vocational assessment, individualized rehabilitation planning, job development and placement services, employer engagement, interdisciplinary care coordination, program evaluation, and performance improvement activities.
What You'll Do
- →Conducts expert-level vocational assessments, including evaluation of functional capacities, psychosocial factors, education/training history, transferable skills, and labor-market opportunities.
- →Develops and implements individualized, recovery-oriented vocational rehabilitation and employment plans tailored to complex Veteran needs.
- →Delivers advanced, evidence-based counseling and vocational interventions to promote employment, functional independence, and community reintegration.
- →Manages a complex caseload generally within the 20-25 Veteran range, with caseload adjustments based on assignment and operational needs.
- →Supported Employment (SE): Implements and monitors fidelity to Individual Placement and Support (IPS); conducts rapid job search, employer outreach, and follow-along supports; ensures Veteran-centered, competitive employment outcomes.
- →Transitional Work (TW): Supports therapeutic work experience programming; ensures compliance with TW policies and safety protocols; develops and manages worksite partnerships; fiscal/budgetary functions related to payroll; supports transition to competitive employment.
- →Community Based Employment Services (CBES): Program/Team Lead Functions: Coordinates team operations, facilitates team/program workflows, supports staff development, fiscal/budgetary functions and monitors adherence to national policy and program expectations.
- →Provides consultation to interdisciplinary teams including Mental Health, SUD, PRRC, Homeless Programs, Primary Care, and specialty medical services in absence of program director.
- →Delivers training on vocational rehabilitation principles, IPS fidelity, TW operations, and best practices.
- →Participates in case conferences, treatment planning, interdisciplinary huddles, and collaborative care activities.
- →Conducts systematic job development; cultivates and maintains employer and community partnerships.
- →Provides guidance on accommodations, disability disclosure, benefits interaction, and job retention strategies.
- →Advocates for Veterans' vocational goals across internal and external systems.
- →Collects, tracks, and analyzes program outcomes including engagement, access, employment rates, job tenure, wages, safety, and satisfaction.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓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 dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓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.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
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