About this role
About the Role As a Rehabilitation Service Specialist (RSS), you’ll be part of a team delivering rehabilitation services to veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces and their families. The role involves assessing rehabilitation needs, coordinating services, and developing comprehensive rehabilitation plans to improve well-being and facilitate re-establishment. You’ll collaborate with medical, psycho-social, and vocational RSPs, VAC case managers, and family/caregivers to support participants. What You'll Do
- Determine required rehabilitation assessments to further assess Participant’s capacity for improvement and coordinate as required
- Ensure services and plans are needs-based, goal-oriented and align to program mandates of improving the six functional domains of well-being and reduce/eliminate barriers to re-establishment and are safe, cost-effective and of high quality
- Develop thorough Rehabilitation Plan for program Participants in consultation with the Participant, their family/caregiver, Rehabilitation Service Professionals (RSPs) and the Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) Case Manager
- Act as the service integrator, collaborating equally with medical, psycho-social and vocational RSPs delivering services to participants
- Empower Participant to problem-solve by exploring options of community-based interventions and resources to achieve desired outcomes
- Identify barriers or risk factors contributing to suboptimal outcomes and pro-actively develop and implement strategies What We're Looking For
- A bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Counselling, Rehabilitation, Social Sciences, Health Services, Human Services, or a related field and one of the following: a health professional designation; or Certified Vocational Rehabilitation Professional (CVRP or a CVRP-F)
- A minimum of (3) year experience in the direct provision of medical, psycho-social or vocational rehabilitation services (or a combination thereof)
- Experience working with persons living with mental or physical health problems creating barriers in life
- Employment conditional on obtaining federal security clearance – Reliability Status
- Ability to travel across the region as required Nice to Have
- Bilingual (French / English) is considered an asset
- Experience working with employers, community resources, and training institutions
- Current and former members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are encouraged to apply Compensation & Benefits
- Starting salary of $75,200 per year
- Comprehensive and flexible health and dental benefits
- RRSP Matching program of 2.5% base earnings
- Coverage for your credential or designation fee
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities
- Generous time-off policies that promote work/life balance