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Occupational Therapist (Home Based Primary Care)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 68 days ago
On-site Santa Rosa, CA $104K – $161K Apply by Jul 20, 2026 Occupational Therapist ENFJESFJINFPISFP Healthcare
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The Occupational Therapy (OT) position is to promote veterans' safety and independent function in their everyday activities in the home and community environments. The position includes strategies to manage self-care in the home, recommendations for access into and out of the home, and prescription, fitting, and training in the use of wheeled mobility where appropriate using OT principles and techniques consistent with current clinical standards based on OT theory and evidence-based practice.
What You'll Do
- →Clinical Duties: Evaluations take place primarily in the veterans' homes.
- →The OT conducts an evaluation that gathers information from the medical record, interview of the veteran and other appropriate people such as family and caregiver or other providers, observation, and standardized and non-standardized testing, including body measurements, patient and significant other personal goals, and analyzes the demands of the occupation, inclusive of: a.
- →Areas of occupation: ADL, IADL, education, work, play, leisure and social participation. b.
- →Performance skills: motor (posture, mobility, coordination, strength and effort, energy), process (knowledge, organization, adaptation) and communication/interaction (information exchange, relations). c.
- →Performance patterns: habits, routines, roles. d.
- →Context(s): Cultural (including cultural contexts related to age, gender identity, and military history), physical environment, social, personal, spiritual, temporal, and virtual. e.
- →Activity demands: the kind of tools, space, social, timing, body functions and body structures that are required by the activity. f.
- →Client factors: body functions and structures.
- →These include mental, sensory, neuromuscular, cardiovascular, speech and skin functions, and the body structures that support those functions.
- →Intervention Duties: The OT develops an intervention plan in collaboration with the veteran and family, caregiver and social support as appropriate.
- →The plan considers the recommendations for the patient made by the primary care team or Home Based Primary Care Team (HBPC) plan of care and other specialty services.
- →It considers the veteran's context and activity demands.
- →The intervention plan includes objective and measurable goals with timeframes. a.
- →Optimization or adaptation of performance skills and client factors such as strengthening, range of motion, fine motor tasks, and memory and attention exercises, especially as they enhance the ability to perform self-care, properly use durable medical equipment and optimize safety. b.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓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.
- ✓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.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
Personality Fit
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