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Recreation Therapist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 9 days ago
About the Role
The Recreation Therapist is assigned to Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Service at the VA Northern California Health Care System. The incumbent has skills in program development and administrative aspects of patient treatment and has knowledge and ability in diversified recreation therapy treatment services including however not limited to; community living centers, post deployment assessment and treatment, and comprehensive integrated inpatient rehabilitation program.
What You'll Do
- →Major Duties include but are not limited to the following: Conduct, analyze, interpret, and report assessment data based upon functional domains (cognitive, sensory, social, affective, physical, and leisure).
- →Provide direct patient care and receive guidance from higher-level or supervisory staff members for only the most complex patients and require only general supervision.
- →Review recreation therapy consults and conduct comprehensive evaluations.
- →Based upon the assessment data and in collaboration with other stakeholders, the therapist develops individualized treatment plans with measurable therapeutic goals and objectives including scope, duration, and treatment.
- →Recommends adaptation, modification, and/or assistive technology to meet the assessed needs and preferences in recreation therapy.
- →Using activity/task analysis, behavioral interventions, and therapeutic procedures they design individualized treatment interventions to reduce stress, anxiety, and maladaptive behaviors, recover basic motor functioning, reasoning abilities, build confidence, and develop compensatory strategies to master critical life skills necessary to re-enter the community in a productive manner.
- →Provides interventions in or around assigned location and includes community integration efforts off station.
- →Work Schedule: Full-time; Sunday to Thursday 8:00am - 4:30pm Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Functional Statement #: 00127-F Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
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
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Job ID: 49936bea-de97-4b35-baac-011f9d7d0b1e
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