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Positions are located at Jesse Brown VAMC (Chicago, IL), whose mission is to honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being. The position involves professional work requiring application of knowledge on the concepts, principles, and practices of recreation therapy, and the use of recreational modalities to treat the physical, mental, emotional, and social needs of individual patients, groups of patients and families.
Learn more about this agency01/21/2021 to 02/10/2021
$71,697 - $93,211 per year
GS 11
1 vacancy in the following location:
No
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
No
Permanent
Full-Time
Excepted
None
No
No
JB-11005149-21-VK
590116800
1. Current, permanent employees of the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, including CBOCs and VCS employees. 2. Current, permanent employees of the VA Nationwide.
Recreation Therapists evaluate the history, interests, aptitudes and skills of patients by interviews, inventories, tests and measurements. Therapists use such fmdings, along with medical records or therapy orders of physicians or nurse practitioners to develop and implement therapeutic interventions for individual patients. Employing the knowledge and understanding of physical and mental illness, psychology and other appropriate physical, social and biological sciences and skill in recreation therapy, therapists plan and carry out treatment programs. These programs are directed to treatment goals that include but are not limited to sensory integration, ambulation, diminishing emotional stress, community integration, reality orientation, muscular dysfunction re-orientation, treatment of psychosocial dysfunction, providing a sense of achievement and progress. Therapists conduct ongoing evaluations of therapy results and modify, redirect, adjust and/or augment treatment plans as indicated by each patient's response to treatment or progress related to patient's physical, emotional, cognitive and social needs, skills, aptitudes, abilities and interests. Therapists provide a diverse variation of therapy services as both adjunctive and primary therapy services, depending on the need. When serving on interdisciplinary treatment teams, therapists use professional knowledge and skills in the integration of recreation therapy into overall team treatment plans.
Major Duties:
-Responsible for respecting all Veterans, their caregivers and extended families by exhibiting sensitivity to their needs, tolerances, and individual differences including values, social backgrounds and ethnic group.
- Effectively. uses professional skill, objectivity and insight to respond constructively to both positive and negative reactions.
- Communicates confidence in the patient's ability and facilitates therapeutic process and progress.
- Supervises implementation of programs for groups and individuals
- Maintains appropriate professional boundaries and provides appropriate recognition for growth.
- Develops and provides effective clinical interventions that are consistent with the therapist's professional Scope of Practice, Standards of Care and Professional Ethics.
- Provides the necessary and/or adapted equipment, materials, instruction, supplies, encouragement and motivation to successfully engage with each patient in the therapeutic process.
- Uses proper judgment in determining specialized approaches, appropriate therapeutic modalities and the appropriate interval of treatment in administering clinical interventions.
- Manages difficult cases that may require unconventional applications to treatment and resourcefulness in devising effective methods and procedures and may counsel patients on the need for positive leisure lifestyle, constructive use of leisure time, coping skills, social interaction skills and community leisure resources and services.
Work Schedule: Monday through Friday 7:30am-4:00pm, varying weekends
Telework: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
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This position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer competitive status.
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All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the full questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 02/10/2021 to receive consideration. To preview the questionnaire click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/11005149.
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OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise - "To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate care to Veterans?
The Jesse Brown VA Medical Center (http://www.chicago.va.gov/) is a 200-bed inpatient facility, providing a full range of patient care services, with state-of-the-art technology as well as education, research and academic affiliations with the University of Illinois - Chicago and Northwestern University. The main campus resides on 13 acres in the Illinois Medical District, approximately three miles from downtown Chicago. JBVAMC also operates four Community Based Outpatient Clinics located in the Lakeside (downtown) area and Auburn Gresham (south side) community of Chicago, in Chicago Heights, Ill.; and the Adam Benjamin, Jr. VA Outpatient Clinic in Crown Point, IN, which serves the four counties of Northwestern Indiana.
The medical center is a part of VA Great Lakes Healthcare System (Network 12), which includes facilities in Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan.