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Occupational Therapist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 94 days ago
On-site Danville, IL $90K – $116K Apply by Jul 13, 2026 Occupational Therapist ENFJESFJINFPISFP Healthcare
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The Occupational Therapist located at the VA Illiana Healthcare System in Danville IL has direct responsibility for evaluating, planning, and implementing evidence based occupational therapy treatment programs. Inpatient settings include acute care, Community Living Center wards, and rehabilitation-focused inpatient units. Outpatient include the PM&RS clinic and may include follow-up care, community reintegration support, and specialty outpatient programs.
What You'll Do
- →Develop patient-centered assessment plans that guide individualized care.
- →Develops individualized, measurable, and occupation-centered treatment plans using assessment findings, physician recommendations, and patient/caregiver goals.
- →Monitors patient progress and performs timely re-evaluations to modify goals and interventions, ensuring efficient and effective achievement of functional outcomes.
- →Delivers occupational therapy interventions across inpatient and outpatient settings.
- →Performs accurate testing and documentation of strength, range of motion, coordination, balance, endurance, gait, posture, sensory function, vital signs, and functional performance.
- →Evaluates, recommends, orders, and provides training for assistive technology, adaptive equipment, and DME, ensuring accurate coordination with VA Prosthetics Service and other procurement pathways.
- →Collaborates with physicians, social workers, and the interdisciplinary team to support safe and appropriate inpatient discharge planning.
- →Provides or contributes to outpatient specialty care with primary and community providers.
- →Completes timely, accurate documentation of evaluations, treatment sessions, progress notes, re-evaluations, and discharge summaries.
- →Participates actively in interdisciplinary collaboration by contributing to treatment team meetings, communicating progress, and ongoing needs to support coordinated patient care.
- →Supports program development through contribution to quality improvement initiatives, clinical program refinement, and outcome measurement efforts across inpatient and outpatient occupational therapy services.
- →Participates in performance and quality improvement, including developing, monitoring, and evaluation for occupational therapy services, while maintaining adequate supply inventory to support patient care across settings.
- →Manages daily patient scheduling to optimize clinic efficiency and access to care, ensuring smooth workflow and support for both inpatient and outpatient service delivery.
- →Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 7:30am-4:00pm Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
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.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical evaluation.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 494503a7-7778-4bf6-af5d-ecfeb616b4f6
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