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Rehabilitation Counselor
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 41 days ago
About the Role
This Rehabilitation Counselor position is located in the Mental Health Department at VA Healthcare System located in Manchester, NH. This position is full time 40 hours per week.
What You'll Do
- →This is an Open Continuous Announcement Until September 30, 2026.
- →Qualified applicants will be referred every other week starting August ,12 2026, until closing of announcement or until position is filled.
- →Rehabilitation Counselors in the Veterans Health Administration (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.
- →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: Full-Time, 40 Hours a week, Monday- Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm, EST.
- →Telework: Available per supervisor discretion.
- →Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Functional Statement #: FS-608-F2570, 608-F2571 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized NOTIFICATIONS: This position is in the Excepted Service.
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
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
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