Vocational rehabilitation consultant vs psychosocial rehabilitation counselor

Differences between vocational rehabilitation consultant and psychosocial rehabilitation counselor duties and responsibilities

Vocational rehabilitation consultant example responsibilities.

• Collaborate with institutions of higher learning and local organizations to help assign veterans achieve independent living and academic success.
• Facilitate vocational assessments and support vocational rehabilitation program development to best facilitate occupational analysis on long-term disability.
• Provide occupational definitions and transferable skills analyses to assist claims team in determining liability for disability claims.
• Analyze clients for the following: transferable skills, employment readiness, appropriate placement opportunity and labor market availability.
• Ensure early identification of disability rehabilitation candidates and develop appropriate rehabilitation plans.
• Review files to ensure CARF standards are meet.
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Psychosocial rehabilitation counselor example responsibilities.

• Manage litigation involving the agency, and drafts bills and amendments for legislative consideration.
• Provide group and individual counseling to patients receiving medication assist therapy through comprehensive recovery-orient and trauma inform treatment planning and implementation.
• Provide leadership to provide psychological, physical and cognitive rehabilitative services to individuals with intellectual disabilities and mental illnesses.