Empower Visually Impaired: Transition Rehab Counselor

Arts In Wilmington; North Carolina; On-site; USD 43,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

The Transition Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor identifies blind or visually impaired individuals whose disability presents a substantial barrier to employment and provides a structured rehabilitation program to support their path to achieving suitable work.

The role conducts applications, interviews, diagnostic assessments, and eligibility determinations to develop individualized employment plans tailored to each consumer’s abilities, interests, and capabilities.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience conducting eligibility interviews and diagnostic assessments to determine service needs for individuals who are blind or visually impaired.
• Strong track record developing individualized employment plans that align consumer abilities, interests, and capabilities with appropriate vocational goals.
• Expert proficiency coordinating rehabilitation services, including job development and placement activities carried out directly with community employers.
• Demonstrated experience performing outreach and re-education with ophthalmologists, optometrists, county DSS offices, and other referral sources to strengthen referral pipelines.
• Proven success executing case finding, service planning, and program delivery in compliance with federal eligibility criteria for vocational rehabilitation services.

Responsibilities

• Identify blind or visually impaired individuals whose disability creates a substantial impediment to employment.
• Explain vocational rehabilitation services to potential consumers and referral sources such as ophthalmologists, optometrists, and county DSS offices.
• Complete applications, initial interviews, and diagnostic studies as part of the preliminary assessment process.
• Determine consumer eligibility and assist with developing individualized employment plans aligned with consumer abilities, capabilities, and interests.
• Coordinate or authorize services that support consumer employment goals.
• Provide and coordinate job development and job placement activities based on consumer job goals.
• Conduct outreach to educate and re-educate eye-care providers and other referral sources to improve the volume and quality of referrals.
• Carry out case finding, plan development, and service provision in accordance with federal eligibility criteria.

Skills

Eligibility interviews

Individualized employment plans

Job development & placement

Outreach to eye-care providers

Compliance with federal criteria

Education

Master's degree in rehabilitation counseling

Master's degree in related human services field

CRC certification

Job description

The Transition Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor identifies blind or visually impaired individuals whose disability presents a substantial barrier to employment and provides a structured rehabilitation program to support their path to achieving suitable work.

The role conducts applications, interviews, diagnostic assessments, and eligibility determinations to develop individualized employment plans tailored to each consumer’s abilities, interests, and capabilities.