Department of Veterans Affairs

Department of Veterans Affairs

Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor

Columbia, South Carolina · Internship

Sponsorship not specified$62k-$116kDetected 17 hours ago

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About the role

  • Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors (VRCs) provide and coordinate a wide range of rehabilitation, counseling, and case management services to disabled veterans and other eligible individuals.
  • The purpose, objectives, services, and outcomes are developed by the VRC during the evaluation.
  • The program's primary focus will be on helping the Veteran find work and set goals and objectives to help them become more independent in their daily lives.

Requirements

  • The internship must have been supervised by a professional in vocational rehabilitation or a closely related professional field that typically has oversight for vocational rehabilitation programs.
  • OR Experience: One-year post-master's degree experience in direct delivery of professional vocational rehabilitation services to individuals with disabilities.
  • Creditable experience must have been obtained post-graduate and be directly related to the duties to be performed to qualify to work as a professional VRC.
  • In addition to meeting the Basic Requirements stated above, one year of post-graduate level professional vocational rehabilitation counseling experience, equivalent to the GS-11 level is required.

Compensation

  • $62k-$116k

Benefits

  • OR Education Substitution:
  • Education cannot be used to qualify for the GS-12.

This listing is sourced directly from Department of Veterans Affairs's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.