Rehabilitation Counselor

Job Title

Rehabilitation Counselor

Duties

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Serves as a developmental Rehabilitation Counselor (RC) providing vocational and personal adjustment counseling, therapeutic rehabilitation interventions, and case coordination services.
• Serves, receives guidance and advice from supervisor and senior staff as needed.
• Provides developmental vocational rehabilitation services to Veterans with a wide array of psychiatric and physical disabilities and psychosocial conditions that present a myriad of barriers, to achieve competitive employment and educational and independent living goals.
• Refers to Licensed Independent Practitioner for further assessment including completion of CSRE and Safety Plan, when indicated.
• Serves as a consultant to an interdisciplinary treatment team or other clinical staff as it relates to the Veteran's vocational rehabilitation needs.
• 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.
• 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. Vocational programming benefits may include work restoration/resilience treatment, transitional work placement and compensation, financial benefits counseling, potential benefits protections, supported employment, and assistive technology.
• Develops patient-centered treatment plans, using Specific, Measurable, Agreed upon, Realistic, and Time-based (SMART) goals, and provides regular, ongoing assessment of Veteran's progress.
• 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.
• Conducts a job analysis to identify essential functions and develop reasonable accommodations.
• All other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: 0800-1630, Monday-Friday

Functional Statement #: 93114-0 and 93115-A

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized.