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Rehabilitation Counselor
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 7 days ago
About the Role
This Rehabilitation Counselor position is located in the Mental Health Department at VA Boston Healthcare System located in Brockton, MA. This position is full time 40 hours per week.
What You'll Do
- →Serves Veterans who have myriad barriers to overcome and achieve competitive employment, educational, and independent living goals.
- →Conducts assessments 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 vocational and other psychometric instruments to evaluate abilities, transferrable skills, functional capacity, labor market analyses, aptitudes, interests, values, preferences, and overall work resilience and synthesize into an interpretive data report.
- →Customizes vocational exploration activities to identify self-determined rehabilitation needs and goals, and administers Measurement Based Care instruments to track progress throughout treatment and adjust goals and services as needed.
- →Determines a clinical need for and capacity to benefit from therapeutic and rehabilitation services to include work restoration/resilience treatment, transitional work placement and/or competitive employment, assistive technology, financial benefits counseling and potential benefits protections.
- →Develops patient-centered treatment plans utilizing Specific, Measurable, agreed upon, Realistic, and Time-based goals and provides ongoing assessment of Veteran's progress.
- →Uses effective counseling skills to promote self-awareness, adjustment to disability, enhanced job retention and successful integration to the community.
- →Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm Compressed/Flexible: Not Available Telework: Ad-hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Functional Statement #: 523-F2603 and 523-F2604 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized EDRP Authorized: Not authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Available PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Available Financial Disclosure: Not required Notifications: This position is in the Excepted Service.
- →This position is not a Bargaining Unit position.
- →Veterans' preference does not apply for internal or other current permanent Federal agency employees.
- →This position is on the Boston locality pay table.
- →Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action).
- →The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted).
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.
- ✓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 must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
Personality Fit
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
Job ID: 33c3b3f7-d858-4c00-a89e-3cbb1d5f7b71
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