Vocational Rehabilitation Supervisor

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Job Overview : The Vocational Rehabilitation Supervisor directs the work unit and manages an active caseload. Responsibilities include ensuring case management actions are aligned with policies, laws, and best practices; counseling consumers on job and career development goals; providing staff assistance with interpreting or decision-making on difficult cases; and serving as a liaison between Montana Vocational Rehabilitation and community rehabilitation providers. This position directly supervises six employees.



Major Duties or Responsibilities:

Case Management

• Counsels consumers on job and career development goals, disability adjustment, and employment issues.
• Assesses consumers’ mental health status and implements crisis intervention strategies as necessary.
• Develops and writes the consumers’ plan of employment including goals, objectives and evaluation criteria.
• Develops rehabilitation plans based on consumers’ aptitudes, education levels, physical abilities and career goals.
• Manages a culturally diverse caseload including outreach to rural communities.
• Monitors and documents consumers’ progress and goal obtainment.
• Implements strategies to help overcome employment barriers such as inaccessible work sites, transportation and work schedule issues.
• Works with employment agencies, Veteran’s Administration, and other community rehabilitation providers to coordinate services.

Personnel Management

• Provides mentoring, coaching, guidance, and support to staff.
• Delegates work, assigns work shifts, or makes schedule changes as necessary.
• Handles performance appraisals, hiring/interviewing, and constructive discipline.
• Provides staff assistance with interpreting or decision-making on difficult cases.
• Conducts meeting and shares updates or procedural changes with staff.
• Trains and orients new counselors.
• Assigns liaison duties to counselors for other community partners.

Case Management Supervision

• Evaluates and ensures casework plans are accurately assessed, documented, and managed.
• Ensures case management decisions and actions are aligned with policies, laws, and best practices.
• Performs case reviews and manages caseloads during counselors’ absences.
• Serves as liaison between Montana Vocational Rehabilitation and community rehabilitation providers.
• Responds to requests from attorneys, stakeholders, family members, and the general public.
• Monitors case expenditures and researches discrepancies.
• Participates and provides expert testimony in legal settings.
• Handles elevated cases or complaints from consumers, family members, and advocates.

Systems Change Management

• Consults and coaches Local Education Agencies on Pre-Employment Transition Service delivery.
• Consults and coaches Workforce partners on serving individuals with disabilities.
• Consults and coaches community rehabilitation providers, businesses, and other stakeholders on Competitive Integrated employment.
• Negotiates and monitors local contracts.
• Tracks and reports issues.
• Provides Public Relations on Vocational Rehabilitation and Blind Services to businesses and organizations.

Assessment and Financial

• Gathers and analyzes consumers’ medical, educational, occupational, and social information.
• Determines consumers’ abilities, needs, disability level, and eligibility for services.
• Assesses consumers’ need for adaptive equipment and assistive technology services.
• Refers consumers to other medical or psychological professionals to assess disability and rehabilitation needs.
• Prepares and documents case records including certification of eligibility, disability classification, and priority level of services.
• Completes consumer financial summary, determines financial eligibility for cost services, and negotiates consumers’ financial participation in the rehabilitation plan.
• Verifies consumer eligibility for extended employment, social security, and other funds or services
• Investigates and resolves financial discrepancies with authorized services.

Other Duties as Assigned



Physical and Environmental Demands: Typical office environment with keyboarding responsibilities. Frequent in-state travel, approximately 25% of the time, with occasional overnight stays. Potential de-escalation may be necessary with some consumers.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (Behaviors):

Required for the first day of work:

• Knowledge of psychosocial assessment, occupational placement, and vocational rehabilitation counseling.
• Knowledge of medical and psychiatric conditions in relation to the rehabilitation process.
• Knowledge of supervisory policies, practices, and techniques
• Effective written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to interpret and use medical, psychological information, and make sound decisions.
• Ability to operate personal computer and general office equipment as necessary to complete essential functions including using word processing, databases, email, internet and other computer programs.
• Ability to identify, analyze, and solve complex problems.
• Ability to establish and maintain professional relationships.
• Ability to delegate, direct, and evaluate the work of others.

Qualifications:


Required Minimum Education and Experience:

• Master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling.
• Three years of experience in rehabilitation counseling.
• Two years of supervisory experience providing direction to counseling activities.
• Certification by the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification (CRCC) is highly preferred.
• Other combinations of directly related education and experience may be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Eligible Training Assignment:

38,334.00