Mental Health Qualified Vocational Rehabilitation
7 days ago
The Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC) and the Department of Mental Health (DMH) are seeking to improve competitive employment outcomes for individuals who are shared consumers of DMH and MRC through the development of a robust vocational rehabilitation network of services, supports, counseling and guidance. The purpose of this program is for MRC to provide appropriate, individualized, vocational rehabilitation services and supports for DMH consumers enrolled in DMH’s Adult Clinical Community Service (ACCS), with the ultimate goal of competitive, integrated employment.
Mental health specialty MRC Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors (VRCs) will work with job seekers to explore their interests, assess their needs, and determine the best pathway to ensure successful integrated competitive employment. MRC will provide an array of comprehensive and coordinated employment supports, including procuring services from the provider community to assist job seekers with achieving their employment goals as part of an overall career pathway.
Employees in this position will lead and facilitate an Integrated Resource Team (IRT) approach to meet the needs of an individual job seeker. The IRT model utilizes a combined team approach, maximizing wrap around services to support the job seeker with ongoing partnerships and communication.
**The Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC) is a learning and participatory performance culture with an emphasis on high performance teams, individual performance/contribution/impact, and engaging in activities to promote and support a program/division/agency (e.g., committee membership, Roadmap workgroup membership, presenting at Town Halls). In addition, MRC is an agency committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and racial equity, as well as innovation, transformation, and change, and creating a culture of agility, excellence, and belonging. MRC has approximately 800 employees working in a hybrid remote and in-office environment.**
**Duties and Responsibilities (these duties are a general summary and not all inclusive**)**:
- Fosters an “informed choice” model of professional vocational counseling for individuals with persistent mental health/behavioral health conditions and/or co-occurring disorders who are receiving services from DMH.
- Incorporates ongoing engagement strategies within the VR system while providing on-going supports to facilitate completion of activities outlined in the Individualized Plan for Employment.
- Determines eligibility for vocational rehabilitation services under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) of 2014.
- Administers functional capacity assessments, interest tests, aptitude tests, transferable skills analysis and other vocational assessments and shares information with job seeker and others as authorized by the job seeker.
- Reviews and analyzes diagnostic information through tests, records, interviews, and observations.
- Leads and facilities the collaborated team to develop, implement, and monitor Individualized Plans for Employment in a manner that allows eligible job seekers the opportunity to exercise informed choice in employment outcomes.
- Recommends the purchase of services, equipment, and materials including Assistive Technology.
- Facilitates services and skills training in individual and group settings.
- Provides opportunities for job seekers to select service providers or MRC placement team to deliver job development, placement, and retention assistance.
- Partners with public and private organizations including, but not limited to, other agency staff, employers, community rehabilitation providers, state agencies, workforce partners, and schools to promote and market agency programs, collaborate, and coordinate in the delivery of consumer supports and services.
**Preferred Qualifications**:
- Knowledge of counseling and job placement of persons with vocational/occupational barriers, including physical, emotional, psychological, and intellectual disabilities.
- Familiarity with utilizing psychological tests and other evaluative techniques.
- Commitment to lifelong learning in relationship to their own professional development.
- Outstanding organizational, written, and oral communications skills; attention to detail.
- Capacity to gather, analyze, and evaluate significant case information pertinent to rehabilitation of an individual.
- Ability to serve as a mentor and provide guidance to others.
- Responsible for learning and staying up to date on MRC’s diversity, equity, inclusion and racial equity skills, results, and expectations specific to Vocational Rehabilitation programs.
- Experience working in a team culture that values inclusivity, performance, transparency, and authenticity.
- Knowledge of and experience in diversity, equity, inclusion, and racial equity and effective engagement across differences.
- Experience working in a team culture that values inclusivity, performance, transparen
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Roxbury, United States State of Massachusetts Full timeThe Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission (MRC) and the Department of Mental Health (DMH) are seeking to improve competitive employment outcomes for individuals who are shared consumers of DMH and MRC through the development of a robust vocational Mental Health, Vocational, Rehab, Rehab, Counselor, Mental, Healthcare
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