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Rehabilitation Counselor
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 61 days ago
About the Role
Rehabilitation Counselors in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) work with Veterans who experience functional impairments and disabilities associated with mental health, physical, and/or psychosocial challenges affecting employment, independent living, or personal adjustment. Incumbent will use 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
- →Duties include, but are not limited to: Serving as a developmental Rehabilitation Counselor (RC) providing vocational/personal adjustment counseling, therapeutic rehabilitation interventions, case management, and case coordination services.
- →Working with an interdisciplinary team to provide and coordinate a wide range of rehabilitation counseling services to Veterans with disabilities.
- →Consulting and collaborating with interdisciplinary treatment teams or other clinical staff to enhance coordination of care, ensure medical clearance, and provide for optimal timing of further interventions as it relates to the Veteran's vocational rehabilitation needs.
- →Ensuring fidelity to evidence-based and evidence-informed vocational and professional counseling practices.
- →Evaluating Veteran's abilities and disabilities; monitoring and recording Veteran's progress to ensure goals and objectives are met.
- →Conducting biopsychosocial assessments using medical records, pertinent disability documentation, and observation.
- →Synthesizing the information to develop case conceptualization and make clinical recommendations to facilitate treatment planning and provision.
- →Following all suicide risk/prevention protocols in accordance with national and local policies, including administration of the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS).
- →Selecting, administering, and interpreting psychometric assessments and vocational instruments to evaluate abilities, transferrable skills, aptitudes, interests, values, preferences, and overall work resilience.
- →Customizing vocational exploration activities, including informational interviews and labor market research, to identify self-determined rehabilitation needs and goals.
- →Determining 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.
- →Developing 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.
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.
- ✓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.
- ✓IMPORTANT: A transcript with the conferred date (if graduated) must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
Personality Fit
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