U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Blind Rehabilitation Outpatient Specialist
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Job Description
- Req#: 841635300
The Blind Rehabilitation Outpatient Specialist (BROS) is located at the Daytona Beach Outpatient Clinic within the Orlando VA Healthcare System. The incumbent manages and provides direct blind and vision rehabilitation training services to visually impaired Veterans and Service members. The incumbent identifies, assesses, trains, manages, and provides follow-up using clinical resources of the facility.
Duties
The Blind Rehabilitation Outpatient Specialist (BROS) is a member of the Blind Rehabilitation Service, the interdisciplinary Visual Impairment Services Team, and interacts with Rehabilitation Medicine, Audiology, Social Work, Prosthetics and Sensory Aids, and other services and agencies of the VA and the community. The BROS functions independently in several settings including hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, long-term care facilities, educational institutions, and home environments. The work environment may be in an office, clinical setting, classroom, private home, VA grounds, nursing home, or community sites. The five skill areas addressed by BROS are orientation and mobility, low vision therapy, vision rehabilitation therapy, computer assisted training, and manual skills training. Some position functions are:
Requirements
About the company
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a Cabinet-level executive branch department of the federal government charged with integrating life-long healthcare services to eligible military veterans at the 1700 VA medical centers and outpatient clinics located throughout the country.
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