Rehabilitation Counselor

We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate. Must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Must not create Pay/Schedule/Benefits unless posting actually states them. The posting includes Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am-4:30pm Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Also Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized. That's about benefits? It says not authorized. That's not a benefit; it's stating none. Should we include Benefits section? The instruction: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It does state Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized; PCS: Not authorized. That's about benefits but says not authorized. Is that considered stating them? It states they are not authorized, which is still stating them (i.e., says they are not available). The rule: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does state them (they are not authorized). So we could include a Benefits section with that info. However, we must avoid filler like "not specified" etc. "Not authorized" is specific. So we can include Benefits section with that. Schedule: Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am-4:30pm Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. That's schedule info. So include Schedule section. Pay: Not mentioned. No pay info. So do NOT include Pay section. Now we need sections: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (maybe basic requirements?), Qualifications (education, certification, etc.), Skills (KSAs), Benefits, Schedule. We must use

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  for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information. Let's parse. Summary paragraph: "This position is located within VHA Vocational Rehabilitation Service. Counselors work with an interdisciplinary team to provide and coordinate a wide range of rehabilitation counseling services to Veterans with disabilities - including assessment - counseling and case management services - development of rehabilitation plans - and assistance in attaining and maintaining employment - independent living - and attaining personal goals." That's About the role. Qualifications: includes Basic Requirements (citizenship, English proficiency, driver's license, education, certification, exceptions, grade determinations, etc.) Also Preferred Experience. We need to separate Requirements vs Qualifications? The instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have both Requirements and Qualifications sections. Requirements likely refer to basic requirements (citizenship, language, driver's license, education, certification). Qualifications could include preferred experience, etc. But we need to avoid duplication. Let's decide: - Requirements: Basic Requirements (citizenship, English proficiency, driver's license, education, certification). Also maybe grade determinations? Those are more about qualifications for GS levels. Might be better under Qualifications. - Qualifications: includes the detailed education/certification options, exceptions for graduate RCs, grandfathering provision, grade determinations (GS-09 and GS-11 experience/education/KSAs), preferred experience. - Skills: KSAs (knowledge, skills, abilities) listed for GS-09 and GS-11. Could be under Skills. - Responsibilities: Duties section (the long list of duties). - About the role: summary. - Benefits: Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized; PCS: Not authorized. - Schedule: Work schedule Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm; Telework not available; Virtual not a virtual position. We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc. Already removed. Now we need to format lists. For About the role: a

  with the summary. For Responsibilities: we have a long list of duties starting with "Provides developmental vocational rehabilitation services..." We'll turn each sentence into

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Duties paragraph: "Provides developmental vocational rehabilitation services to Veterans with a wide array of psychiatric and physical disabilities and psychosocial conditions that present a myriad of barriers - to achieve competitive employment and educational and independent living goals Serves as a consultant to an interdisciplinary treatment team or other clinical staff as it relates to the Veteran's vocational rehabilitation needs Communicates appropriately with community health care professionals to provide useful input to other team members and employers concerning the Veteran Ensures fidelity to evidence-based and evidence-informed vocational and professional counseling practices Evaluates Veteran's abilities and disabilities monitors and records Veteran's progress to ensure goals and objectives are met Conducts biopsychosocial assessments using medical records - pertinent disability documentation - and observation Incorporates interviews into the assessment with the Veterans and their support systems to generate personal - vocational - and educational histories Synthesizes the information to develop case conceptualization and make clinical recommendations to facilitate treatment planning and provision Selects - administers - and interprets psychometric assessments and vocational instruments to evaluate abilities - transferrable skills - aptitudes - interests - values - preferences - and overall work resilience Customizes vocational exploration activities - including informational interviews and labor market research - to identify self-determined rehabilitation needs and goals Determines clinical need for and capacity to benefit from therapeutic and rehabilitation services Vocational programming benefits may include work restoration/resilience treatment - transitional work placement and compensation - financial benefits counseling - potential benefits protections - supported employment - and assistive technology Develops patient-centered treatment plans - using Specific - Measurable - Agreed upon - Realistic - and Time-based (SMART) goals - and provides regular - ongoing assessment of Veteran's progress Complete clinical charting and participate in professional peer reviews Provides job development - job placement - job coaching - job accommodation - adaptation - retention - and education services to both Veterans with disabilities and for those employers who employ these Veterans Conducts a job analysis to identify essential functions and develop reasonable accommodations Promote employment programs to community employers to establish relationships that will result in providing work opportunities for Veterans with significant behavioral - physical - emotional and/or cognitive impairments Facilitate job placement for Veterans by teaching valuable job search skills - resume/application development - interview skills and basic computer skills Coordinate job search clubs for Veterans to improve in self-directed job search activities Utilization of clinical counseling techniques to assist Veterans in developing soft skills (e.g personal hygiene - cooperation with co-workers - and following instructions) when employed to enhance job satisfaction and foster natural supports in the workplace Understands the basics of military culture to assist Veterans with returning to the community - including community-based work" We need to keep hyphens and punctuation as is. Now Requirements: Basic Requirements list: - United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy - English Language Proficiency: Candidates will not be appointed under authority of 38 U.S.C. chapters 73 or 74 - to serve in a direct patient-care capacity in VHA who is not proficient in written and spoken English - Driver's License: A current - valid state issued Driver's License is required for this position * You will be required to provide your license at the time of interview and if selected - a clean driving record report from the DMV during the online onboarding process * NOTE: We cannot accept photographs - therefore please do not submit a copy of your license with your application package * If an interview is requested - you will be required to provide a copy of your current - valid state-issued Driver's License - Education: A master's 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 applicant's degree was granted prior to July 1 - 2017 - the program must be accredited by the Council on Rehabilitation Education * OR A master's 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 master's 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 * Exceptions for Graduate RCs: RC graduates from an approved counseling or rehabilitation counseling program who otherwise meet the basic qualification requirements and the additional degree requirements for CRC certification by the CRCC - but do not possess the required certification - may be appointed - pending certification - as a graduate RC on a full-time temporary appointment not-to-exceed two years under the authority of 38 U.S.C. 7405(a)(1)(D) * Graduate RCs may only be appointed at the entry grade level and may not be promoted/converted until certification is obtained * May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the criteria) We could also include Grade Determinations under Qualifications. Now Qualifications: includes Grade Determinations for GS-09 and GS-11, plus Preferred Experience. Let's extract GS-09: Grade Determinations: GS-09 Experience: None beyond the basic requirements AND Demonstrated Knowledge - Skills and Abilities (KSAs): In addition to meeting the experience or educational requirements for this grade level - the candidate must demonstrate all of the following KSAs: List: - Knowledge of human development and behavior - medical - psychosocial - and vocational aspects of disability and differential influences of environmental factors to assist persons with disabilities in determining suitable vocational goals - Knowledge of history - philosophy and disability rights legislation in the field of rehabilitation to apply in the practice of rehabilitation counseling - Ability to synthesize assessment and diagnosis information in conjunction with labor market trends and community/educational resources to develop an effective individual service delivery plan - Knowledge of caseload management strategies to maximize an individual's independent functioning from assessment through provision of post-employment services - Ability to employ person-centered job development strategies to facilitate successful job placement - Knowledge of assessment tools and methods - functional capacity evaluations and specific vocational preparation to evaluate transferrable skills - residual capacities and needs for accommodations and assistive technology GS-11 Experience: Completion of one year of professional experience equivalent to the next lower grade level directly related to the position being filled OR Education: A doctoral degree in rehabilitation counselor education or related field (e.g rehabilitation psychology) from a CACREP accredited institution or from an institution accredited by a national or regional accrediting body accredited by CHEA AND Demonstrated Knowledge - Skills and Abilities: In addition to the experience or education above - the candidate must demonstrate the following KSAs: List: - Knowledge of physical and psychological disabilities - appropriate accommodations and assistive technology principles to mitigate and reduce or eliminate barriers to integrate into the community - Knowledge of counseling theory - medical and psychiatric terminology and sign and symptomology of suicidal and homicidal ideations - to communicate appropriately with community health care professionals to provide useful input to other team members and employers in relation to the Veteran and/or his/her family's psychosocial needs and to recommend and help implement suitable treatment plans - Ability to use evidence-based and evidence informed vocational and professional counseling practices to include individual placement and support (IPS) customized employment and supported employment models and motivational interviewing skills to promote self-awareness - adjustment to disability