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Health Technician (Pedorthist)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 61 days ago
On-site West Palm Beach, FL $54K – $70K Apply by Oct 7, 2026 Health Aid And Technician ESFJISFJISFPISTJ HealthcareTrades
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Health Technician (Pedorthist) position in the Prosthetic & Sensory Aids Service (PSAS) in the West Palm Beach Healthcare System in VISN8. Provides specialized pedorthic care by assessing patients, designing and fabricating orthopedic footwear and devices, ensuring prescription accuracy, and supporting mobility and comfort through advanced pedorthic treatment and patient education.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional As a key member of our interdisciplinary team, you will independently assess Veteran patients with complex needs to formulate and implement pedorthic treatment plans.
- →You will specialize in fitting orthotic devices-including shoes and bracing-while ensuring high-quality patient outcomes and improving compliance in our Orthotic Laboratory.
- →Primary duties, but not limited too: Communicates and interacts with physicians, allied health professionals, patients, and caregivers in various interdisciplinary clinical settings as a subject matter expert to develop the pedorthic treatment plan.
- →Provides complex patient analyses in accordance with established procedures for patients with unusual conditions, multiple complex conditions, and interrelated conditions.
- →Assess patients for indications/contraindications.
- →Discusses the assessment with the physician/requesting provider for the purpose of developing the overall treatment plan with considerable influence in the development of the plan.
- →Analyzes the potential use of new and emerging technologies in designing unique or innovative pedorthic devices to accommodate or treat a wide range of complex medical conditions which include unusual problems or complications.
- →Takes scans and measurements for advanced devices, prepares and modifies casts for advanced devices, repairs and fabricates advanced devices and provides patient/caregiver education for advanced devices.
- →Recognizes physical abnormalities, deviations, and complicating conditions with potentially life-threatening implications.
- →Privileges (Individual Scope of Practice) other credentialled clinicians to provide pedorthic care based on ABC privileging requirements.
- →Work Schedule: 8:00am-4:30pm, Monday - Friday Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Functional Statement #: 41449F Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
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Job ID: 2dd48329-0e59-4112-bcbe-11d97b3d8652
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