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Rehabilitation Counselor
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 6 days ago
About the Role
This position is organizationally located at the Clement J. Zablocki VAMC in Milwaukee, WI as part of the Mental Health Division with the in the VHA Vocational Rehabilitation Service (VHA VR). VHA VR Service includes: Vocational and Educational Assistance, and Compensated Work Therapy (CWT). The Rehabilitation Counselor will provide services based on needs of the veterans and programs at that time.
What You'll Do
- →Major Duties of the Vocational Rehabilitation Service Rehabilitation Counselor Include: Provides personal adjustment counseling, therapeutic rehabilitation interventions, and case coordination services.
- →Uses evidence-informed and evidence-based modalities to aid Veterans integrate successfully into the community.
- →Serves Veterans who have myriad barriers to overcome and achieve competitive employment, educational, and independent living goals.
- →Conducts biopsychosocial assessments 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 and Administers Measurement Based Care (MBC) instrument to track progress throughout treatment and adjust goals and services as needed.
- →Consults with interdisciplinary teams to enhance coordination of care, to ensure medical clearance and provide for optimal timing of further interventions.
- →Determines clinical need for and capacity to benefit from therapeutic and rehabilitation services Develops patient-centered treatment plans Devises solutions to reduce and/or eliminate barriers or employment needs which may require substantial modification to environmental or functional demands within a work setting.
- →Provides psychoeducational and/or psychotherapeutic groups to facilitate effective job search skills, job clubs, employment workshops, employer-desired soft skills training, work and life skills fostering independence and recovery.
- →Provides job development, customized employment, job carving, job coaching, job accommodation, advocacy, and adaptation services.
- →Provides disability education and program-specific training to staff and stakeholders.
- →Uses rehabilitation counseling theory, medical and psychiatric terminology, and symptomology and signs of suicidal and homicidal ideations to provide effective services.
- →Provides professional recommendations and guidance regarding the career development processes and job analysis methodology to determine essential functions of jobs, worksite modifications and/or alternative vocational goals given the work history and residual functional capacities of individuals with disabilities.
- →Utilizes knowledge of the military culture, military transition to civilian occupations, and specific factors and dynamics associated with Veterans, particularly combat Veterans, to advise those who are returning to the community, and community-based work.
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.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
Personality Fit
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
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