Rehabilitation Counselor

Rehabilitation Counselor

Seeking qualified Rehabilitation Counselor to support the Veterans Administration (VHA). This is a great opportunity to support those who have served in our nation’s military, their families, caregivers, and survivors.

Duties and Responsibilities

·       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 (SMART) goals and provides ongoing assessment of Veteran's progress. 

·       Provides a variety of professional rehabilitation counseling services such as personal adjustment counseling, therapeutic rehabilitation interventions and case coordination services, utilizing evidence-informed and evidence-based modalities and professional counseling practices to aid Veterans with severe disabilities in achieving competitive employment and educational and independent living goals. 

·       Uses effective counseling skills to promote self-awareness, adjustment to disability, enhanced job retention and successful integration to the community.

Qualifications:

·       Required a master's degree in rehabilitation counseling or clinical rehabilitation counseling from a rehabilitation counseling program accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs (CACREP).  If degree was granted prior to July 1, 2017, the program musts be accredited by the Council on Rehabilitation Education.

·       OR A masters degree in counseling or clinical rehabilitation counseling from a college or university accredited by a national or regional accrediting body accredited by Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

·       Must have current, full and unrestricted certification as a certified rehabilitation counselor (CRC) from the CRC to practice vocational rehabilitation counseling.

·       Subject to background/security investigation

·       Participation in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program is a requirement for all Veterans Health Administration Health Care Personnel (HCP).

·       Participation in the season influenza vacation program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).

·       Proficient in spoken and written English

·       Must be a citizen of the United States.