| REHABILITATION CONSULTATION
& TESTIMONY
Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Primary care vocational guidance and counseling
services consist of three key ingredients:
1) Vocational Assessment:
- Analyzing transferable work skills
- Evaluating aptitudes, interests and abilities for return-to-work
considerations
- Assessing residual employability
- Analyzing the labor market through surveys and published
data
- Analyzing educational and self-employment potential
- Analyzing essential and marginal job demands
- Developing job descriptions
- Assessing job- and case-specific reasonable accommodations
- Assessing residual earning capacity
2) Plan Development:
- Providing vocational guidance and counseling
- Identifying appropriate vocational goals/options
- Specifying individual responsibilities and time lines
- Documenting supportive labor market following successful
rehabilitation plan completion
- Documenting expected earning capacities upon successful
rehabilitation plan completion
- Documenting plan completion, termination and/or suspension
3) Job Development and Placement:
- Assessing job readiness
- Monitoring and documenting diligent job-seeking activities
- Analyzing job-seeking, acquisition and retention skills
- Training in job-seeking skills
- Monitoring work adjustment
- Providing employee-employer education
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