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Therapy Assistant
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 2 days ago
On-site Cleveland, OH $47K – $62K Apply by Jun 22, 2026 Rehabilitation Therapy Assistant ISFP Healthcare
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The VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System is recruiting for a Therapy Assistant. The Therapy Assistant will function in Recreation Therapy Service. The incumbents performs a crucial role in supporting the primary recreation therapist or creative arts therapist in carrying out treatment services for Veterans with complex medical, physical, behavioral and/or mental deficits.
What You'll Do
- →The Therapy Assistant duties include, but are not limited to: Communicates and treats customers (Veterans, their representatives, visitors, and all VA staff) in a courteous, tactful, and respectful manner.
- →Plans and carry out highly specialized and diversified treatment of a wide variety of acutely and clinically complex medical patients.
- →Plans, implement, and conduct ongoing highly specialized and diversified recreation therapy treatment interventions for patients with varying degrees of impairments.
- →Independently applies wide-ranging knowledge of recreation therapy concepts, principle, practices, procedures, roles, strategies, techniques, and treatment interventions/ modalities.
- →Informs the patient of his/her responsibility in the collection of assessment information and seeks collaboration in the process.
- →Possess broad knowledge of the human body, psychology and the characteristics of physical and mental illness.
- →Employs broad knowledge of medical terminology, recreation therapy, social recreation, activity therapy, therapeutic techniques, and fundamental sciences such as physiology, anatomy pathology, and psychology.
- →Applies the rehabilitation process in meeting the needs of the patient and exercises judgment in making recurrent and wide-ranging changes in procedures and approaches to enable the patient to achieve maximum rehab potential rather than yielding to their disabilities.
- →Position Description/PD#: Therapy Assistant/PD94169A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process.
- ✓In addition to the application and questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment.
- ✓The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.
- ✓Physical Requirements: The position involves moderately heavy lifting of physically impaired patients while assisting with ambulation duties.
- ✓The work requires regular and recurring physical exertion such as long periods of standing or walking; frequent bending, crouching, reaching, and stretching or similar activities to set up take apart equipment and apparatus; recurring lifting of moderately heavy items and repositioning patients.
- ✓Must be able to push wheelchair patients on level and inclined ground.
- ✓A pre-placement physical examination is not required.
- ✓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) As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period 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 probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
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