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Recreation Therapist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted today
About the Role
The Primary Purpose of the Position is: to provide care and rehabilitation to those Veterans with a variety of disabilities and recommend adjustment in patients' treatment plans. The Organizational Location of the Position is: Recreation Therapy Service, VA North Texas Health Care System (VANTHCS), Bonham, TX.
What You'll Do
- →This is a direct patient care position in which the incumbent is responsible for performing the work of a recreation therapist in the medical center.
- →The work encompasses a variety of different duties and responsibilities: Provide direct patient care and receive guidance from higher-level supervisory staff members for only the most complex patients and require only general supervision.
- →Review recreation therapy consults and conduct comprehensive evaluations.
- →Demonstrates an advanced competency, which qualifies them to perform patient evaluations and treatment procedures independently on patients with various complex diagnoses and disabilities.
- →Evaluates the assigned patients' mental, emotional, social, and physical capabilities to determine the patients' needs in Recreation Therapy.
- →Incumbent conducts, analyzes, interprets, and reports assessment data based on functional domains (cognitive, sensory, social, affective, physical and leisure).
- →Perform documentation of patient care, including comprehensive assessments/evaluations or assessment screens, individualized progress notes indicating progress, or lack of, toward treatment goals, encounters, consultations, care plans, and other reports as needed.
- →Evaluate patient needs for additional, alternative, or termination of services, monitor the effectiveness of intervention plans, and make modifications as needed.
- →Adheres to Medical Center and service policies.
- →Utilizes a computerized patient record system by the established procedures.
- →Adheres to Medical Center Privacy and Information Security policy.
- →Promotes effective communication with all patients, caregivers, treatment team members, Medical Center staff, and community partners.
- →Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm including evenings, weekends, and holidays.
- →Telework: Not Authorized 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 dentification 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.
- ✓IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
Personality Fit
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