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Occupational Therapist - Safe Patient Handling Program Manager
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 15 days ago
On-site Sheridan, WY $106K – $138K Apply by Sep 8, 2026 Occupational Therapist ENFJINFP OperationsHealthcare
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The Occupational Therapist, Program Coordinator executes leadership characterized by managing the Safe Patient Handling Program based on the requirements of VHA Directive 1611, covering all medical facilities and clinics within the Sheridan healthcare system. This is characterized by substantial and continuous responsibility and accountability for the program, which crosses the lines of all services and disciplines that influence the organizational healthcare mission.
What You'll Do
- →Participates in planning, design, & construction phases of all projects so that all projects in spaces Veterans use.
- →Completes, leads, and updates ergonomic assessments to implement appropriate SPHM technology to prevent hazards identified across all areas that provide patient care.
- →Performs comprehensive rounding throughout the VA medical facility using the SPHM template within the Performance Logic Application to monitor facility performance measures.
- →Investigates employee & patient safety & health incidents related to patient handling, providing recommendations & tracking these injuries by unit, area, hospital-wide, & across the continuum, in collaboration with the worker's compensation program personnel, facility safety, OSHA record keeper, & facility patient safety manager.
- →Ensures that patients are screened before mobilization & that methods chosen for mobility are safe, effective, & appropriate for individual needs across the continuum of care.
- →Selects & coordinates the acquisition of SPHM-related equipment & supplies with appropriate stakeholders within the healthcare system across the continuum.
- →Establishes & maintains highly effective relationships at all levels of the organization, working in collaboration with VA medical facility stakeholders on resource availability for programmatic support.
- →This collaborative approach ensures that the SPHM Program Coordinator evaluates SPHM staffing methodology/equivalency needs by submitting annually to the National SPHM Program Office.
- →Provides expertise to all individuals & workgroups that handle & mobilize patients or provide or approve patient equipment.
- →This collaboration with the SPHM Program Coordinator ensures that everyone feels confident & competent in their role in program sustainment.
- →Monitors VA medical facility compliance with Directive 1611 & initiates appropriate corrective action if non-compliance is identified.
- →As determined by the facility director, report to the VA medical facility committee at least twice yearly.
- →Establishes procedures delineating local responsibilities related to local VA medical facility SPHM program alignment, implementation, & sustainment.
- →Makes decisions that affect staff & other resources with a wide latitude of control.
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: ACOTE is the only accreditation agency recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
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Job ID: 699f236e-f108-4674-b820-0394919147d2
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