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The duties for this position include but are not limited to: GS-9 and GS-11 Duties

• Provides recovery-oriented vocational and personal adjustment counseling to Veterans in the SUD outpatient program.
• Conducts assessments using record reviews, observations, disability documentation, interviews, and input from Veterans' support systems.
• Develops, adjusts, and monitors patient-centered recovery plans using SMART goals.
• Provides case management or case coordination services in collaboration with the interdisciplinary SUD team.
• Assists Veterans with identifying vocational strengths, interests, skills, barriers, and support needs.
• Teaches job search skills, resume and application development, interview preparation, and basic computer skills.
• Coordinates transportation to interviews, hiring events, and other employment-related activities.
• Completes job analyses to support job coaching, retention services, and successful task performance.
• Counsels Veterans on workplace soft skills, including personal hygiene, cooperation, following instructions, and use of natural supports.
• Completes required clinical documentation, charting, peer review activities, and participates in program improvement efforts.

GS-9 Duties

• Provides vocational and personal adjustment counseling under close or general supervision.
• Provides case management and transferable skills analyses to support employment, education, and independent living goals.
• Synthesizes assessment and diagnostic information with labor market trends and community resources.
• Develops customized vocational evaluations based on each Veteran's abilities, aptitudes, interests, values, and preferences.
• Uses assessment tools, functional capacity information, and vocational preparation data to evaluate skills, residual capacities, accommodation needs, and assistive technology needs.
• Facilitates job placement through structured job readiness and employment preparation support.
• Coordinates job search clubs to improve Veterans' self-directed job search activities.
• Promotes employment programs to community employers under the supervision of certified rehabilitation counselors.
• Conducts outreach and job development to match Veteran strengths with local workforce needs.
• Travels to work sites and meets with community employers, as needed.

GS-11 Duties

• Provides therapeutic rehabilitation interventions and evidence-informed or evidence-based rehabilitation modalities.
• Conducts biopsychosocial assessments and documents personal, vocational, and educational histories.
• Selects, administers, and interprets vocational instruments to assess abilities, aptitudes, interests, values, preferences, transferable skills, and work resilience.
• Consults with the interdisciplinary SUD team to determine clinical need for and capacity to benefit from rehabilitation services.
• Coordinates work restoration and resilience treatment, transitional work placement, supported employment, assistive technology, benefits counseling, and benefits protections.
• Enhances care coordination by ensuring medical clearance and appropriate timing of rehabilitation interventions.
• Provides psychoeducational groups on job search skills, employer-desired soft skills, and life skills that foster independence.
• Procures and manages transitional work agreements with community, state, and federal agencies.
• Monitors work site compliance with agreements to ensure Veterans are trained and evaluated consistent with industry standards.
• Devises solutions to reduce or eliminate placement barriers, including modification of environmental or functional demands in work settings.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm

Telework: Available, ad-hoc only, as determined by the agency policy.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 55967-F (GS-9); 55968-F (GS-11)

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

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