Rehabilitation Specialist

State of Mississippi

$37,846.57 - $44,141.95 Annually

Location

25 - HINDS COUNTY, MS

Full-Time

Job Number

H

Opening Date

10/27/2026

11/9/2026 at 11:59 PM Central Time (US & Canada)

Agency Minimum Salary

$37,846.57

$44,141.95

About the Agency The Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services (MDRS) is a state agency dedicated to helping Mississippians with disabilities to live and work independently. MDRS serves through four major programs:
Vocational Rehabilitation (VR), Vocational Rehabilitation for the Blind (VRB), Office of Special Disability Programs (OSDP), and Disability Determination Services (DDS). Services also include support through Assistive Technology, the Office of Business Development and much more. It is the mission of MDRS to provide appropriate and comprehensive services in a timely and effective manner. Programs and services assist individuals with disabilities to gain employment, retain employment, and to live independently.

MDRS is always looking for qualified and passionate employees to help fulfill its mission. To inquire about this position, please email careers.gov.

• Counseling and guiding individuals with disabilities to assist them in achieving employment outcomes consistent with their strengths, resources, priorities, concerns, abilities, capabilities, interests and informed choice.
• Analyzes and interprets the pertinent educational, social, medical, psychological and vocational information of applicants or consumers in order to determine their aspirations, interests, motivations, aptitudes and scholastic achievements;
• Conducts diagnostic interviews to obtain medical, psychological, educational, social, vocational and personal information to assist people with disabilities in making appropriate career choices;
• Determines appropriate referrals to other agencies and community partners, including appropriate medical, psychological and psychiatric services;
• Completes a comprehensive assessment for each applicant and eligible VR consumer accessing appropriate external resources as necessary;
• Determines the consumer’s eligibility, the need for VR Services, and ensures VR Services are appropriate;
• Develops a rehabilitation plan with each consumer that is consistent with the consumer’s aptitudes, education levels, physical abilities and career goals;
• Follow-up and monitoring of a consumer’s services to ensure timely provision of services and progress to Individualized Plan of Employment (IPE) completion or employment outcome;
• Independently authorizes and approves expenditures of state/federal funds for individualized goods and services to consumers;
• Prepares case reports to monitor and record the consumer’s progress to ensure that goals and objectives are met;
• Participates in job development, job placement programs, and follow-up on consumers who have been placed in employment;
• Develops community referral sources for providing services to consumers;
• Establishes the method of which educational, social, medical, psychological and vocational data is to be obtained from consumers, family and community programs; works with the community in establishing facilities and programs to assist the individual with a disability;
• Maintains records and prepares reports and correspondence related to work;
• May be assigned as a Vocational Rehabilitation liaison to one or more local schools
• Explores comparable benefits;
• Engages in conflict resolution, preserving good counselor-consumer and/or counselor-provider relationships;
• Reviews and interprets various evaluation results with consumers;
• Complies with required steps of the consumer appeal process;
• Completes documentation timely and accurately;
• Educates…