Supervisory Rehabilitation Counselor

Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional

The primary duties of the Supervisory Rehabilitation Counselor may include but are not limited to:

• Serves as a Supervisory Rehabilitation Counselor with responsibility for providing oversight and supervision of a significant number of professional Rehabilitation Counselors RC level and below and other VHA Voc Rehab Service staff and for administratively planning and directing their work in accordance with the VHA Directive 1163.
• Provides discipline-specific clinical supervision for vocational rehabilitation staff assigned throughout the VA medical facility.
• Manages and provides oversight for multiple program components and/or multiple locations.
• Synthesizes national handbooks and directives for development of local policies and procedures.
• Leads coordinates and manages all aspects of a clinical rehabilitation service delivery system within the organization assigned.
• Informs higher-level management of anticipated vacancies or increases in workload.
• Recommend promotions reassignments performance ratings and retention or release of probationary employees or other changes of assigned personnel.
• Provides advice counsel or instruction to employees on both clinical and administrative matters.
• Oversees attendance and leave including approval of sick and annual leave and vacation schedules.
• Writes position descriptions and/or functional statements; and interviews selects and recommends candidates for positions.
• Serves as the Affiliate Coordinator for Graduate Trainee Educational Affiliation Agreements and directs clinical trainee program for trainees in Rehabilitation Counseling assigned to VHA Voc Rehab.
• Identifies developmental and training needs to ensure organizational proficiency.
• Establishes labor mapping adjusts workloads and forecasts future work assignments and projects.
• Provides direction and guidance in accomplishing major milestones goals and objectives.
• Utilizes both qualitative and quantitative methods to develop and implement program evaluation tools.
• Estimates budgetary needs based on history anticipated workload resource need and the workload capacity of the VHA Voc Rehab Service and makes justified requests or proposals.
• Oversees the overall planning direction and timely execution of the VHA Voc Rehab Service programs.
• Represents VHA Voc Rehab Service programs at meetings with the leadership service level non-federal groups professional organizations and stakeholders regarding program activities and programs directed.
• Provides leadership in a wide range of areas affecting the management and operations of VHA Voc Rehab including such areas as clinical specialties finance accountability oversight of work performed by program staff consultation negotiation and monitoring to successfully operate and enhance all programs.
• Provides individual and group training orientation consultation and guidance within clinical specialization of rehabilitation counseling practice to develop improve and maintain programming.

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
• Subject to background/security investigation.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements ( Effective May 7 2025 drivers licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
• Complete all application requirements detailed in the Required Documents section of this announcement.

• your performance and conduct;
• the needs and interests of the agency;
• whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
• whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.

Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met.
Basic Requirements:

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• Education: A masters degree in rehabilitation counseling or clinical rehabilitation counseling from a rehabilitation counseling program accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). If the applicants degree was granted prior to July 1 2017 the program must be accredited by the Council on Rehabilitation Education. OR A masters degree in counseling or clinical rehabilitation counseling from a college or university accredited by a national or regional accrediting body accredited by Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). OR A masters or doctoral degree in a related field of study with course content that emphasized rehabilitation counseling disability therapy health employment wellness or human development from a college or university accredited by a national or regional accrediting body accredited by CHEA. OR Foreign graduates with a degree acceptable by the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification (CRCC).
• Certification. Current full and unrestricted certification as a certified rehabilitation counselor (CRC) from the CRCC to practice vocational rehabilitation counseling.