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Occupational Therapist-HUD-VASH/HJCR
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
On-site Salt Lake City, UT $82K – $145K Apply by Jun 15, 2026 Occupational Therapist ENFJESFJINFPISFP Healthcare
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This position is located in the Salt Lake City Social Work Service Homeless & Justice Clinical Recovery Program and provides Occupational Therapy services in the specialty area of Home and Community Integration and services (HUD-VASH/HJCR)within the Salt Lake City VA Medical Center, A-1 facility complexity. This therapist is able to serve as consultant to occupational therapy, HJCR, and the medical center staff in this specialty area.
What You'll Do
- →Occupational Therapist-HUDVASH/HJCR Works with an IDT team including but not limited to physicians, residents, and staff, as well as other health care specialists in matters concerning Home and Community Integration and Services (HJCR/HUD-VASH).
- →Establishes treatment goals and eventual discharge plan based on evaluations, and planning with patient and significant others (when appropriate), and coordination with the multidisciplinary team.
- →Develops and carries out occupational therapy plans with individuals to meet individual rehabilitation objectives.
- →Implements an Home and Community Integration and Services (HUD-VASH) and/or occupational therapy treatment plan to meet individual rehabilitation objectives utilizing functional activities which have as their goal the improvement of patient's activities of daily living, strength, range of motion, sensation, perceptive and/or cognitive process.
- →Provides general assessment and treatment for veterans with physical dysfunction, neurological and orthopedic diagnoses, plan and carry out rehabilitation related to therapy, direct assistant treatment, and provide discharge planning.
- →Re-evaluates patient's performance and modifies treatment as indicated.
- →Presents patient information to health care providers regarding outcomes of treatment, status and expectations.
- →Evaluates patient's living situation through home visits in-person, VVC, patient and family interviews, or consultation with other health care professionals.
- →Assists patient in solving problems associated with that environment.
- →Participates regularly in multidisciplinary care planning meetings including chart rounds, family conferences, and discharge planning.
- →Develops, implements, and modifies the OT treatment plan effectively and independently.
- →Initiates ordering, delivery and training in the use of patient specific adaptive equipment in a timely, efficient, and accurate manner, utilizing the processes related to the procurement of prosthetic equipment.
- →Carries a full patient caseload, accepting new consults.
- →Documents initial evaluations, progress, and discharge planning in a timely, concise manner, per section documentation and consult management requirements.
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
Job ID: 166f2de6-daf4-4493-ba64-647c4935c7e0
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