Senior Vocational Rehabilitation Counsel - 48004901

Senior Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor

This position is responsible for providing independent professional vocational rehabilitation counseling to identified individuals with disabilities, which may include those identified as potentially eligible Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) youth customers ages 14-21, to support the overall goal of employment. This includes providing and coordinating complex services and providing technical assistance on vocational rehabilitation internal and external stakeholders and requires accessing client information, maintaining case records, tracking open authorizations and other case-specific activities and reviewing caseload data regularly.

Provides technical assistance to internal and external stakeholders.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Maintains active and meaningful engagement throughout the life of the VR case.
• Meets with the individual to review referrals and complete the application and Initial Interview for VR services in compliance with federal regulations.
• Assesses medical, psychological, and vocational information to determine eligibility for services.
• Provides information to assist individuals with disabilities in making informed choices, consistent with federal requirements, regarding services, service providers and employment outcomes.
• Provides support and services to assist VR customers in obtaining successful and quality employment outcomes.
• Authorizes, coordinates and/or negotiates services leading to successful employment outcome.
• Engages customers timely in their planning process to identify an appropriate vocational goal and services to develop an IPE, in compliance with the federal regulations.
• Documents the comprehensive assessment in compliance with policy requirements.
• Implementation of services and service delivery:
  Provides reasonable and necessary planned services.
• Demonstrates quality standards in implementation of the customer's Individualized Plan for Employment.
• Manages resources to ensure all activities, including programmatic counseling and financial, are tracked and occur according to state and federal regulations and policies.
• Devises job placement opportunities through job placement activities, including job analysis, job development, and labor market information to assist individuals with disabilities to obtain appropriate employment outcomes.
• Develops employer contacts and serves as liaison with employers.
• Utilizes the resources of community rehabilitation providers in securing appropriate job placement for eligible individuals with disabilities.
• Coordinates or collaborates with others in other placement activities.
• Provides support to guide customers appropriately to and through the credential attainment process to support quality employment outcomes.
• Provides timely follow up and monitoring in employment phase leading to successful outcomes.
• Documents and tracks post-employment support and services.
• Closes cases in alignment with policy.
• Manages VR Services and applies sound decision making and best value purchasing principles to customer purchases.
• Ensures that all purchases align with purchasing policies.
• Tracks and communicates regulations, laws, and rules specific to financial and payment timelines and requirements like period of performance, open authorizations, allowable expenditures, appropriate use of coding for authorizations, etc.
• Collaborates with community partners to assure appropriate use of available resources.
• Participates in training experiences designed to enhance professional competency in vocational rehabilitation.
• Travel may be required to perform assigned duties.
• Performs other duties as required.

Who We're Looking For:

The ideal incumbent must be productive under tight time frames, balance multiple and competing priorities, and maintain goal-directed behavior and performance sometimes under stressful conditions. The incumbent must interact courteously with others. The performance and behavior of all employees must demonstrate consideration of the workload concerns of others and must not negatively affect productivity and morale of the unit. Attendance is an essential function.

Minimum Qualifications:

Being able to meet the federal requirements for this federally funded position which includes:
Bachelor's Degree:
Attainment of a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in a field of study reasonably related to vocational rehabilitation, to indicate a level of competency and skill demonstrating basic preparation in a field of study such as: vocational rehabilitation counseling psychology disability studies business administration human resources special education supported employment customized employment economics another field that reasonably prepares individuals to work with consumers and employers Two (2) years of experience consisting of:
Direct work with individuals with disabilities in a setting such as an independent living center Direct service for advocacy activities that provide such individuals with experience working…