- Position Title
- LEAD PHYSICAL THERAPIST
- Agency
- Veterans Health Administration
- Announcement Number
- CBTD-12709661-25-KLT Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Thursday, March 13, 2025 to Monday, March 31, 2025
For preview purposes only. To apply, please return to the USAJOBS announcement and click the Apply button.
Eligibilities
1.
Are you an employee of the facility indicated for this position?
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). Your SF-50 must include enough information to be able to determine that time-in-grade requirements have been met (if applicable) and include your position title, pay plan/series/grade, tenure and the type of appointment (i.e. Competitive or Excepted). Please be aware that award SF-50's do not always include this pertinent information.
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). Your SF-50 must include enough information to be able to determine that time-in-grade requirements have been met (if applicable) and include your position title, pay plan/series/grade, tenure and the type of appointment (i.e. Competitive or Excepted). Please be aware that award SF-50's do not always include this pertinent information.
Preferences
1.
Which of the following items describes your current or recent (within the last five years) political appointee service?
If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
Your resume must be submitted in English and include the following information for each job listed:
- Job title Duties (be as detailed as possible)
- Month & year start/end dates (e.g. June 2007 to April 2008)
- Full-time or part-time status (include hours worked per week)
- Series and Grade, if applicable, for all Federal positions you have held
- Please be aware that your answers will be verified against information provided on your resume. Be sure that your resume clearly supports your responses to all of the questions by addressing your work experience in detail.
By submitting your application, you are certifying, to the best of your knowledge and belief, all the information submitted by you with your application for employment is true, complete, and made in good faith, and that you have truthfully and accurately represented your work experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education (degrees, accomplishments, etc.). The information you provide as part of your application may be investigated. You are also certifying, and acknowledging, that misrepresenting your experience or education, or providing false or fraudulent information in, or with your application, may affect your eligibility for appointment and/or continued employment. False or fraudulent statements may be punishable by fine or imprisonment (18 U.S.C. 1001).
Assessment 1
Thank you for your interest in working at VA Connecticut Healthcare System in our Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation service. This vacancy is for a GS-12 Lead Physical Therapist.
This assessment is designed to ensure that candidates meet the basic qualifications and have the experience to meet the grade level of this vacancy. Please answer each question to confirm your eligibility.
This assessment is designed to ensure that candidates meet the basic qualifications and have the experience to meet the grade level of this vacancy. Please answer each question to confirm your eligibility.
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
1.
BASIC REQUIREMENTS-US Citizenship: Candidates must be a citizen of the United States. After a determination is made that it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens, necessary personnel may be appointed on a temporary bas under authority of 38 U.S.C. 7405 without regard to the citizenship requirements of 38 U.S.C. 7402 or any other law prohibiting the employment of or payment of compensation to a person who is not a citizen of the United States. Candidates must meet all other requirements for the grade and position concerned.
Are you a citizen of the United States of America?
Are you a citizen of the United States of America?
2.
BASIC REQUIREMENTS-English Language Proficiency: Individuals appointed under authority of 38 U.S.C. chapters 73 or 74, to serve in a direct patient-care capacity in VHA must be proficient in written and spoken English. See Chapter 2, section D, paragraph 5a, this part.
Are you proficient in both spoken and written English?
Are you proficient in both spoken and written English?
3.
BASIC REQUIREMENTS-Education and Experience: The individual must meet at least one of the requirements below:
Bachelor's degree in Physical Therapy AND five (5) years of progressively independent experience as a physical therapist. OR
Master's degree in Physical Therapy AND two (2) years of progressively independent experience as a physical therapist. OR
Doctorate degree in Physical Therapy.
Do you meet one of the BASIC REQUIREMENTS of Education and Experience for the Physical Therapist occupation?
Bachelor's degree in Physical Therapy AND five (5) years of progressively independent experience as a physical therapist. OR
Master's degree in Physical Therapy AND two (2) years of progressively independent experience as a physical therapist. OR
Doctorate degree in Physical Therapy.
Do you meet one of the BASIC REQUIREMENTS of Education and Experience for the Physical Therapist occupation?
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
4.
BASIC REQUIREMENTS-Licensure: Individuals must hold a full, current, and unrestricted license to practice physical therapy in
a State, Territory or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.
Do you hold a full, current and unrestricted license to practice physical therapy in a State, Territory or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia?
a State, Territory or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.
Do you hold a full, current and unrestricted license to practice physical therapy in a State, Territory or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia?
5.
Enter the state where you are licensed and your license number.
State:
License Number:
State:
License Number:
6.
GRADE DETERMINATION: GS-12 Lead Physical Therapist In addition to the basic requirements for education, candidates must possess one year of progressively complex experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level, must hold a valid unrestricted state license and demonstrate all the KSAs below.
Experience: examples of this experience include but are not limited to : provide assessment and treatment intervention; plan and modify treatment based on a patient's response to intervention and/or change in medical condition; serve as the sole PT such as in an outpatient clinic ; provide oversight and delegate patient care responsibilities to a Physical Therapist Assistant, and/or delegate non-patient care duties to non-licensed staff.
Demonstrated Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
Experience: examples of this experience include but are not limited to : provide assessment and treatment intervention; plan and modify treatment based on a patient's response to intervention and/or change in medical condition; serve as the sole PT such as in an outpatient clinic ; provide oversight and delegate patient care responsibilities to a Physical Therapist Assistant, and/or delegate non-patient care duties to non-licensed staff.
Demonstrated Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to coordinate workflow and clinical activities as well as monitor data reports within physical therapy section to ensure optimal patient care.
- Ability to articulate and communicate to the clinical team the assignment, project, problem to be solved, actionable events, and objectives, as well as to advise on work methods, practices and procedures.
- Ability to provide new staff orientation, staff development, and training.
- Demonstrates advanced skill to serve as mentor and coach of the clinical team.
- Ability to manage staffing requirements and priorities, and coordinate work in order to complete duties in an accurate and timely manner. This includes the ability to follow-up on pending issues and demonstrating an understanding of the impact of incomplete work.
RESUME REMINDER: Your resume must include the following information:
Full name and current contact information.
Name of company and department for each position held.
Job Title for each position held.
Duties - As detailed as possible we cannot make assumptions.
Month & Year start/end dates (e.g. June 2017 to April 2018)
Full-time or part-time status (include hours worked per week)
Grade and Step for all federal positions.
REQUIRED DOCUMENTS: Please supply all supporting documents at the time of application to ensure that you are credited with your education, experience and licensure so that we are able to determine your eligibility. Federal employees must also provide a copy of their most recent SF-50 showing their status as a federal employee. You will not be contacted to provide additional documentation.
Full name and current contact information.
Name of company and department for each position held.
Job Title for each position held.
Duties - As detailed as possible we cannot make assumptions.
Month & Year start/end dates (e.g. June 2017 to April 2018)
Full-time or part-time status (include hours worked per week)
Grade and Step for all federal positions.
REQUIRED DOCUMENTS: Please supply all supporting documents at the time of application to ensure that you are credited with your education, experience and licensure so that we are able to determine your eligibility. Federal employees must also provide a copy of their most recent SF-50 showing their status as a federal employee. You will not be contacted to provide additional documentation.