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Rehabilitation Counselor
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
Rehabilitation Counselors in the Veterans Health Administration 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. 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
- →Rehabilitation Counselors work with an interdisciplinary team to provide and coordinate a wide range of rehabilitation counseling services to Veterans with disabilities, including assessment, counseling and case management services, development of rehabilitation plans, and assistance in attaining and maintaining employment, independent living, and attaining personal goals.
- →Rehabilitation Counselors are nationally certified as Certified Rehabilitation Counselors and may be State licensed as Licensed Professional Counselors.
- →Rehabilitation Counselors are located within various settings, including Veterans Integrated Service Networks, VHA Medical Centers and facilities, Community Based Outpatient Clinics, Inpatient Clinics, Outpatient Clinics, Residential programs and Domiciliaries throughout the United States.
- →This position is located within VHA Vocational Rehabilitation Service.
- →The programs are recovery-oriented clinical vocational rehabilitation services that offer an array of vocational, educational, training, employment, and therapeutic work services.
- →They include skill development, fostering of natural supports, and assistance with obtaining and maintaining employment for Veterans.
- →Communicates appropriately with community health care professionals to provide useful input to other team members and employers concerning the Veteran Ensures fidelity to evidence-based and evidence-informed vocational and professional counseling practices.
- →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.
- →Incorporates interviews into the assessment with the Veterans and their support systems to generate personal, vocational, and educational histories.
- →Synthesizes the information to develop case conceptualization and make clinical recommendations to facilitate treatment planning and provision Selects, administers, and interprets psychometric assessments and vocational instruments to evaluate abilities, transferrable skills, aptitudes, interests, values, preferences, and overall work resilience.
- →Customizes vocational exploration activities, including informational interviews and labor market research, to identify self-determined rehabilitation needs and goals Determines clinical need for and capacity to benefit from therapeutic and rehabilitation services.
- →Complete clinical charting and participate in professional peer reviews Provides job development, job placement, job coaching, job accommodation, adaptation, retention, and education services to both Veterans with disabilities and for those employers who employ these Veterans.
- →Travel required- Drivers License Required Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓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.
- ✓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 a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
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