Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist

Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist

Duties include, but are not limited to the below:

• Provides vocational rehabilitation services consistent with current theory and methods to include the following: Intake Assessment, Columbia Suicide Screening, Employment Readiness, North Eastern Program Evaluation
• Assesses disabilities and development of plan to overcome the barriers to employment created by the disability.
• Communications with and provision of direction for all customers and stakeholders of the program, including patients, staff, and local agencies.
• Analyzes jobs and modifying duties consistent with ADA concepts.
• Maintains day to day contacts with potential employers, placement personnel, or other likely placement resources and negotiates appropriate accommodations for veterans with disabilities.
• Utilizes community resources and work incentives.
• Keeps alert for job and small business opportunities.
• Educates patients on implications of return to work on benefits.
• Recruits, interviews, selects suitable clients with severe mental health illnesses for employment.
• Interacts with and maintains a working relationship with other professionals.
• Provides training and guidance on the implementation of the program.
• Serves as the local authority in the analysis, developmental and implementation of program projects.
• Contact and work creatively with community employers, working knowledge of a broad range of occupations, ability to identify client strengths, interest, skills and needs.
• Matches clients to jobs, and arrange long-term support to help keep clients employed.
• Makes difficult treatment decisions, modifies and utilizes the most effective treatment approach to effectively provide rehabilitation services to patient with substance abuse or psychiatric disorders.
• Develops the Transitional Work Experience, Supported Employment best practice training offering at the CWT/TWE/SE Program. You will provide training and guidance on the implementation of the Support Employment initiative to other programs within TVHS.
• Advises the Program Coordinator of conditions of the Supported Employment Program implementation.
• Serves as the local authority in the analysis, development and implementation of Supported Employment projects.

Work Schedule: 7:30 - 4:00pm, Monday - Friday

Telework: Ad-Hoc

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist/ PD700280

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized

Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not approved

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized