The Occupational Therapist is located in the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service at the Western New York HCS. The duties and responsibilities are carried out throughout the medical center including all clinical and other patient care areas involved with the service. The Occupational Therapist applies a wide range of theories, principles, and methodologies of the practice of occupational therapy to a wide range of populations.
Major duties include but are not limited to: Assignment is to all program areas and provides professional, independent occupational therapy services. Completes comprehensive assessment of functional and occupational roles using standardized and non-standardized evaluation tools.
Provides direct occupational therapy interventions and procedures with varying degrees of complexity to enhance safety, wellness and performance in ADL, IADL, education, work, play, leisure and social participation. Demonstrate full professional understanding of the theories of treatment in occupational therapy and their proper application through the use of activity analysis, behavioral intervention, frame of references and therapeutic procedures.
Gathers background data, reviews referrals, selects and modifies OT evaluation tools, and evaluates patients determining the level of the patient's physical and psychosocial functioning. Reevaluates patient's progress during treatment at appropriate intervals and discontinues treatment following team consultation when no longer beneficial to the patient. Plans, implements and changes OT patient treatment based on evaluative findings.
Establishes measurable treatment goals with individual patients. Discusses treatment and goals with patients and/or families. Treatment that the therapist is responsible for, includes both individual and group activities involving self-care, patient education and leisure area. Therapist utilizes available resources to update and change individual and group activities according to areas of patient need.
Recommends, acquires and modifies necessary adaptive equipment to augment patients' independent functioning. Educates patients and/or families regarding the safe use of adaptive equipment as well as making recommendations for the installation of the adaptive equipment. This may include, but not limited to evaluation for self-care devices, positioning, home environment, major medical equipment, powered mobility prescription and/or home improvement structural alterations.
Provides progress records and reports on assigned patients, according to current policies and procedures. Participates as an active member of the interdisciplinary team. Communicates in an effective and professional manner with team members demonstrating good judgment. Establishes rapport and a working relationship with patients having various disabilities and backgrounds.
Receives direction/supervision from Program Coordinators regarding programming, and specific aspects of patient treatment. Reports or provides information to supervisor and team, as required in clinics and conferences that pertain to assigned caseload. Fabricates and more frequently modifies prefabricated orthoses, fabricates slings or provides prefabricated slings and alters adaptive equipment to accommodate patient's needs as recommended.
Instructs and supervises affiliating Occupational Therapy students for varied levels of fieldwork experiences. This includes orienting, educating, evaluating and structuring the student's learning experience. Works closely with and develops expertise about student training with guidance from the Occupational Therapy Educator. Participates regularly in staff meetings, in-services, continuing education and Rehab/OT VISN 2 opportunities.
Contributes and provides in-service sessions to staff. Remains current with Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service policies and procedures. Work Schedule: Intermittent Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized. Telework: Not Authorized. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 24194F Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized. PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized.
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This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $64543 – $121680/yr.
This position requires a Other security clearance.
Applications close on 2026-11-05.
This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.
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