What is vocational rehabilitation?
Once you are Permanent and Stationary, if the doctor decides you can no longer do your old job, you may be eligible for Vocational Rehabilitation (VR). Before you start VR, your employer has a chance to offer you modified duty that meets the restrictions placed by the doctor. If no duty is available, or the employer decides not to offer it, you go into VR. Vocational Rehabilitation is designed to get you back to work as quickly as possible, ideally a job that pays within 15% of your old job. It may consist of job placement, schooling, or other employment options.
• Vocational Rehabilitation is a process whereby a worker who cannot return to his former job as a result of an injury on the job is assisted in re-entering the workforce. A specialist in vocational rehabilitation provides services to the injured worker to enable them to return to work. Services may include testing, job placement, vocational counseling, on the job training and retraining. • You may be a candidate for vocational rehabilitation if your injury is severe enough to keep you from returning to the occupation you held at the time of the injury. Your doctor may recommend that you find another occupation. You should be medically unable to continue with or return to your former job.
Vocational rehabilitation is the process that helps a permanently disabled employee to return to gainful employment as quickly as possible in a job with pay at or near the wages at the time of injury. Vocational services may include vocational assessment and skills testing, counseling, job development, modification of the previous job, limited training when required, and job placement assistance.
