Employer Services
To strengthen its mission of placing individuals with disabilities into employment, Vocational Rehabilitation offers a variety of special services to employers, including:
- Meeting employers' personnel needs
- Providing trained, pre-screened, and job-ready workers
- Helping employees return to work by providing physical restoration services, counseling, retraining, and job modification, as needed
- Providing employee placement services
- Providing Rehabilitation Services for Eligible Employees
- Assisting employees injured off the job
- Helping long-term disability claimants
- Providing referral and coordination of services for employees with mental illness or substance abuse
- Purchasing physical restoration devices such as hearing aids or artificial limbs when an employee meets Agency economic need guidelines
- Providing consultation in the preparation of an affirmative action plan
- Providing information on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other federal compliance
- Assessing architectural barriers or special needs of workers with disabilities at the job site.
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Contact Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Citizens Plaza State Office Building
2nd Floor, 400 Deaderick Street
Nashville, TN 37243-1403
Telephone: (615) 313-4891
TTY: (615) 313-5695
TTY: (Long Distance): 1-800-270-1349
Fax: (615) 741-6508
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