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Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor
Veterans Benefits Administration · Posted 46 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 Compressed/Flexible Schedule: Compressed schedule may be an option with approval from the division chief and agency policy.
- →Telework: This position is eligible for situational (ad hoc) telework only.
Requirements
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary 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 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.
Benefits
- ★Placement Policy: The posting of this announcement does not obligate management to fill a vacancy or vacancies by promotion.
- ★The position may be filled by reassignment, change to lower grade, transfer, appointment, or reinstatement.
- ★Management may use any one or any combination of these methods to fill the position.
- ★It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.
- ★This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
- ★Receiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6, or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a federal employee.
- ★VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employees credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service.
- ★This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave.
- ★Such credit must be requested and approved before the appointment date and is not guaranteed.
- ★For more information on the "Who may apply" eligibility requirements, please refer to the OHRM Status Candidates and Other Candidate Definitions document.
Personality Fit
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