Recreation Therapist

Job Title

Duties at the GS-11 (full-performance) grade level include but are not limited to:

• Receives, consults, conducts, analyzes, interprets, and reports assessment data based on functional domains (cognitive, sensory, social, affective, physical, and leisure).
• Incorporates the four-step process of assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of services delivered, the therapist constructs appropriate and evidence-based recreation therapy interventions for treating patients with complex medical, mental health, and substance abuse issues.
• Employs knowledge and understanding of physical illness, mental health, substance abuse, and other appropriate physical, social, and biological sciences, and skills in recreation therapy.
• Plans and carries out treatment programs that are directed to such goals that include but are not limited to:
  • (1) sensory integration
  • (2) ambulation
  • (3) diminishing emotional stress
  • (4) community reentry
  • (5) reality orientation
  • (6) muscular dysfunction reorientation
  • (7) treatment of psychosocial dysfunction
  • (8) providing a sense of achievement and progress
  • (9) channeling energies into acceptable forms of behavior
• Conducts ongoing evaluations of therapy results and modifies, redirects, adjusts, and augments treatment plans as indicated by each veteran's response and progress in the light of each patient's emotional, mental health, and social needs; skills, aptitudes, abilities, and interests.
• Exercises resourcefulness in providing individualized and group interventions that will be unique and effective methods and procedures when implementing therapeutic interventions, including but not limited to assistive technology, cognitive behavioral skills, fitness and wellness, adapted sports and leisure development, and community accessibility/reintegration/transition.
• Evaluates the patient's needs for additional, alternative, or termination of services and monitor the effectiveness of intervention plans, and make modifications, as needed.
• Determines the effectiveness of protocols, modalities, and programs for targeted groups through quantitative analysis and identifies potential risks and needs for adaptive interventions with cases to facilitate improved bio-psychosocial well-being.
• Participates in the treatment team in all programs within the Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program.

Work Schedule: Will be discussed during interview

Compressed/Flexible: Available

Telework: Available - Ad-hoc only

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 000000

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized