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Rehabilitation Counselor
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 3 days ago
About the Role
Rehabilitation Counselors in the VHA work with persons who experience functional impairments and disabilities associated with mental health, physical, and/or psychosocial challenges affecting employment, independent living, or personal adjustment. Rehabilitation Counselors utilize various professional counseling and clinical modalities to promote and support optimal functioning, independence, personal adjustment, adaptation to disability, community reintegration, and recovery.
What You'll Do
- →Major duties and responsibilities include but not limited to: Provides developmental vocational rehabilitation services to Veterans with a wide array of psychiatric and physical disabilities and psychosocial conditions that present a myriad of barriers, to achieve competitive employment and educational and independent living goals.
- →Adheres to the professional rehabilitation standards of the Joint Commission and CARF.
- →Integrates into other treatment teams to coordinate recovery services across Mental Health and the Medical Center.
- →Serves or chairs task groups or administrative committees on behalf of VHA Vocational Rehabilitation Service.
- →Participates in professional peer review and individual case review and that of other professional disciplines as appropriate.
- →Serves as a consultant to an interdisciplinary treatment team or other clinical staff as it relates to the Veteran's vocational rehabilitation needs.
- →Communicates appropriately with community health care professionals to provide useful input to other team members and employers concerning the Veteran.
- →Evaluates Veteran's abilities and disabilities; monitors and records Veteran's progress to ensure goals and objectives are met.
- →Conducts biopsychosocial assessments using medical records, pertinent disability documentation, and observation.
- →Determines clinical need for and capacity to benefit from therapeutic and rehabilitation services.
- →Vocational programming benefits may include 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 regular, ongoing assessment of Veteran's progress.
- →Complete clinical charting and participate in professional peer reviews.
- →Promote employment programs to community employers to establish relationships that will result in providing work opportunities for Veterans with significant behavioral, physical, emotional and/or cognitive impairments.
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 identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓A pre-placement examination will be required to be able to determine if the incumbent is able to safely operate a Government Vehicle.
- ✓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 a 1 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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