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Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor
Veterans Benefits Administration · Posted 53 days ago
About the Role
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors (VRCs) provide and coordinate a wide range of rehabilitation, counseling, and case management services to disabled veterans and other eligible individuals. The purpose, objectives, services, and outcomes are developed by the VRC during the evaluation. The program's primary focus will be on helping the Veteran find work and set goals and objectives to help them become more independent in their daily lives.
What You'll Do
- →Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors (VRCs) provide and coordinate a wide range of rehabilitation, counseling, and case management services to disabled veterans and other eligible individuals.
- →The purpose, objectives, services, and outcomes are developed by the VRC during the evaluation.
- →The program's primary focus will be on helping the Veteran find work and set goals and objectives to help them become more independent in their daily lives.
- →Provides services for employer consultation, employment development and placement, career counseling, and vocational planning and assessment.
- →Combines data from diagnostic tests and medical records to give a comprehensive picture of strengths, weaknesses, capabilities, and interests to help patients find a suitable employment or independent living objective.
- →Partners with Vet Centers, career centers, local Disabled Veterans' Outreach Program, Specialists, Local Veterans' Employment Representatives, VA employment programs, and others to provide job search and placement services.
- →Provides information and assistance with the Veteran Readiness and Employment (VR&E) program through individual and group therapy sessions.
- →Conducts counseling using a variety of approaches, including tele-counseling, depending on the needs of the Veteran.
- →Partners with administrators at schools, Vet Centers, military bases, and federal, state, and local agencies to determine the individual needs of service members and Veterans and to provide the essential assistance.
- →Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met.
- →Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level.
- →The grade progression for this position is: GS-09/11/12.
- →Work Schedule: Full time, Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m - 4:30 p.m Compressed/Flexible Schedule: Available Telework: This position is eligible for situational (ad hoc) telework only.
- →The selectee is required to report to the official duty station each scheduled workday.
Requirements
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary/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 probationary/trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓Additional Conditions of Employment are as follows: You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 You may be required to serve a probationary or trial period 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 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.
- ✓A transcript must be submitted with your application.
- ✓It must include your coursework and date of conferral of a Masters degree in vocational rehabilitation (or related) field.
- ✓Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education to be credited towards qualifications.
- ✓Provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education.
- ✓All education claimed by applicants will be verified upon appointment.
Personality Fit
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