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Physical Therapist (Clinical Specialist)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 60 days ago
On-site Boise, ID $106K – $138K Apply by Jul 27, 2026 Physical Therapist ENFJESFJINFPISFP Healthcare
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This position is located in the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service, Boise VA Medical Center, Boise, ID.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Physical Therapy: https://youtube.com/embed/Gi2hoFqIoqY The duties of this position include, but are not limited to: Performs as an independent practitioner, embraces evidenced-based practice standards in diagnosis, examination, management, intervention, treatment and outcome measurement.
- →Collaborates across the continuum of care.
- →Ensures that services are coordinated, including recommending studies of value and being consumer centered by referring, co-managing, engaging consultants, and independently supervising care.
- →Uses differential diagnosis as a consistent way to screen for systemic diseases and medical conditions that can mimic neuromuscular and musculoskeletal problems.
- →The model covers past medical history, risk factor assessment, clinical presentation, associated signs and symptoms, and review of bodily systems for each patient.
- →Manages patients with multiple personal factors and/or comorbidities that impact the plan of care.
- →Completes an examination of multiple body systems using standardized tests and measures, addressing multiple elements from any of the following: body structures and functions, activity limitations, and/or participation restrictions.
- →Manages patients with unstable and unpredictable clinical presentations.
- →Exercises clinical decision-making of high complexity using standardized patient assessment instruments and/or measurable assessments of functional outcome.
- →Performs PT evaluations and treatments according to established PM&RS/HBPC protocols and/or evidence-based practice guidelines.
- →Makes autonomous clinical decisions in an autonomous and/or Direct Access environment.
- →Includes the ability to independently evaluate and treat patients who seek physical therapy services.
- →Serves as a subject matter expert for other medical center staff in the evaluation and rehabilitative treatment of individuals with, or at risk to develop, limitations related to cardiovascular, pulmonary, neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, and/or integumentary systems.
- →Performs examinations and evaluations of individuals who have or may develop impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions related to conditions of the musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, cardiovascular, pulmonary, and or/or integumentary systems while considering the effects attributable to unique psychosocial and environmental factors.
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.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: ae289b21-0489-4725-a8f5-5c1740e3ce00
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