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Recreional Therapist Department of Defense Military Trement Facilities under DHA Brooke Army Medical Center Summary About the
Position:
This position is loced Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. This is a Direct Hire Solicition A recruitment or relocion incentive may be authorized. Salary negotiion may be available for those candides who are new to Federal service. Learn more about this agency Summary About the
Position:
This position is loced Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. This is a Direct Hire Solicition A recruitment or relocion incentive may be authorized. Salary negotiion may be available for those candides who are new to Federal service. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted this month • Apply in 1 day Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 23, 2026 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Fort Sam Houston, TX No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible No Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed Yes—You may qualify for reimbursement of relocion expenses in accordance with agency policy. Salary $62,629 - $81,423 per year Pay scale & grade GS 9 Promotion potential None Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required 25% or less - You may be expected to travel up to 25% for this position. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series 0638 Recreion/Creive Arts Therapist Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union Yes Drug test Yes Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance . The type depends on the job. Background check type Credentialing Suitability/Fitness Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number
HSJW-26-12979772-DHA
Control number 872043000 This job is open to Help The public U.S. Citizens, Nionals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. Duties Help Provide professional recreional therapy to adult outpients who are predominantly active-duty military recovering from traumic injuries, amputions, burns, and other complex injuries/conditions requiring advanced rehabilition. Evalue pients and provide structured recreional therapy plan of care and trement sessions to achieve pient centered goals. Utilize standard assessments and/or develop specific tools based on the populion needs to establish approprie therapeutic recreion goals and develop the pient's trement plan. Evalue pient progress on a recurring basis and provides written and oral reports of findings. Communice findings to multi-disciplinary team to ensure wholistic care. Attend staff meetings, team trement meetings, and other clinical conferences to facilite coordined multi-disciplinary care, address barriers to progress, and maximize therapeutic outcomes. Develop, plan, organize and implement the CFI Community Reintegrion Program. Facilite CFI aquic therapy programming as both a recreional therapist and a lifeguard based on mission needs. Collabore with leadership to coordine and monitor therapeutic trips and outings. Support CFI clinical educion programming by precepting clinical interns, providing ongoing oriention and in-services reled to therapeutic recreion for colleagues, and faciliting collaborion with multi-disciplinary counterparts. Maintain condition and inventory control on an assigned portion of the section's supplies and equipment. Requirements Help Conditions of employment Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determinion, as determined by a completed background investigion. A Personnel Security Investigion is required. Selectees required to sign a stement (Condition of Employment) consenting to seasonal influenza vaccinions or must provide a recognized exemption. Immunizion screening is required. Hepitis B immunizion is required for all positions with direct pient contact. Applicants may be required to show proof of other immunizions depending on the type of position. This position is a Testing Designed Position subject to pre-employment screening and random drug testing. Selectees required to consent to participion in random drug urinalysis testing. A pre-placement medical examinion is required. Modere to heavy lifting up to 50 pounds may be required. Must be able to obtain and maintain current Basic Life Support (BLS) certificion through the American Red Cross or American Heart Associion. Advanced certificion (e.g., ALS) does not supersede BLS. This position may require the incumbent to work weekends and/or holidays. Must be able to obtain and maintain current Lifeguard certificion through the American Red Cross.
Qualificions Who May Apply:
US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the educion and/or specialized experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on educion, your transcripts required as part of your applicion. Additional informion about transcripts is in this document . Basic Requirement for
Recreion Therapist:
License:
Certified Therapeutic Recreion Specialist (CTRS)
Degree:
A Bachelor's or gradue/higher level degree in therapeutic recreion, art therapy, drama therapy, dance therapy, or music therapy from an accrediting program recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion the time the degree was obtained.
OR Degree:
A Bachelor's or gradue/higher level degree in a reled field involving therapeutic emphasis or concentrion from an accrediting program recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion the time the degree was obtained th included least 36 semester hours in therapeutic courses, as described below:(1) 18 semester hours of therapeutic recreion courses; AND(2) 18 semester hours th include a combinion of abnormal psychology, physiology, human anomy and development, disabilities and general recreion.
Exemption:
You are exempt from the basic requirements above if you are a current federal employee occupying a position in the 0638 occupional series and have been continuously employed in this occupional series since September 27, 2017 or before.
Note:
You required to provide approprie documention to the respective Human Resources Office to valide your stus. In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualificion requirements listed below:
Specialized Experience:
One year of specialized experience which includes planning, directing, or coordining recreion-based trement programs; and modifying trement plans. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07).
OR Combinion of Educion and Experience:
A combinion of educion and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed gradue semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the first year (total gradue semester hours minus 18) by 18. Add the two percentages. Educion
FOREIGN EDUCATION
If you are using educion completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualificion requirements, you must show the educion credentials have been evalued by a prive organizion th specializes in interpretion of foreign educion programs and such educion has been deemed equivalent to th gained in an accredited U.S. educion program; or full credit has been given for the courses a U.S. accredited college or university. For further informion, : https://sites.ed.gov/internional/recognition-of-foreign-qualificions/ . Additional informion Male applicants born after December 31, 1959 must complete a Pre-Employment Certificion Stement for Selective Service Registrion. You required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship. This position requires a 1 year probionary period during which the agency evalues your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In making this determinion, the agency may consider your performance and conduct; agency needs and interests; whether your continued employment supports organizional or Government goals; and whether it promotes the efficiency of the Federal service. Continued employment requires written certificion th it advances the public interest. Direct Deposit of Pay is required. Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees. Recruitment or relocion incentives MAY be authorized for highly qualified candides. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement. If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the informion in the Reemployed Annuitant informion sheet. Payment of Permanent Change of Stion (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determinion th a PCS move is not in the Government interest. Position is designed as Mission Essential. The incumbent required to report to work during times of contingency operions, nural disasters, extreme weher or other emergency situions. Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help Review our benefits How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. Once the announcement has closed, a review of your applicion package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) used to determine whether you meet the qualificion requirements listed on this announcement. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documention, a determinion is made th you have infled your qualificions and/or experience, you may lose considerion for this position. Veterans and Military Spouses considered along with all other candides. Benefits Help Review our benefits Required documents Required Documents Help The documents you are required to submit vary based on whether or not you are eligible for preference in federal employment. A complete description of preference cegories and the associed required documents is in the Applicant Checklist for Public Announcements . As described above, your complete applicion includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you marked as having an incomplete applicion package and you will not be considered any further. 1.
Your resume:
Your resume must be two pages or less and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement. Resumes exceeding two pages removed from considerion. For each relevant work experience, make sure you include the employer's name, job title, start and end des (include month and year), for qualificions purposes, the number of hours worked per week, and a brief description th show you can perform the tasks the required level listed in the job announcement. If your resume does not contain this informion, your applicion may be marked as incomplete, and you may not receive considerion for this position. Use plain language. Avoid using acronyms and terms th are not easily understood. The hiring agency will not make assumptions about wh's in your resume. If your resume includes a photograph or other inapproprie merial or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualificion determinions, and you may not be considered for this vacancy. For additional informion, to include formting tips, see: Wh to include in your resume . 2.
Other supporting documents:
Cover Letter, optional Most recent Performance Appraisal, if applicable This position has an individual occupional requirement and/or allows for substitution of educion for experience. If you meet this requirement based on educion you MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your applicion package or you red ineligible.
See:
Transcripts and Licenses .
License/Certificion:
This position requires a job-reled license or certificion. You MUST submit a copy of your license or certificion with your applicion package or you red ineligible.
See:
Transcripts and Licenses .
NOTE:
Documents submitted as part of the applicion package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certifices may contain personal informion for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal informion before you submit your applicion. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help To apply for this position, you must complete the online questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 06/23/2026 to receive considerion. To begin, click Apply to access the online applicion. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to cree one before beginning the applicion ( https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12979772 ). Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your applicion package. As a reminder, your resume must be two pages or less and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement. Resumes exceeding two pages removed from considerion. For additional informion, refer to the 'Required Documents' section. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your applicion before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. After acknowledging you have reviewed your applicion package, complete the Include Personal Informion section as you deem approprie and click to continue with the applicion process. You taken to the online applicion which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention is included with your applicion package, and submit the applicion. Your resume selected in USAJOBS included, but you must re-select other documents from your USAJOBS account or your applicion may be incomplete. It is your responsibility to verify th your applicion package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) is complete, accure, and submitted by the closing de. Uploaded documents may take up to one hour to clear the virus scan. Additional informion on how to complete the online applicion process and submit your online applicion may be found on the USA Staffing Applicant Resource Center . To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account ( https://www.usajobs.gov/applicant/profile/dashboard/ ), all of your applicions will appear on the Welcome screen. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, : https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to/applicion/stus . Agency contact informion Army Applicant Help Desk Website https://portal.chra.army.mil/hr_public?id=app_inq Address
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Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234 US Next steps If you provided an email address, you will receive an email message acknowledging receipt of your applicion. Your applicion package used to determine your eligibility, qualificions, and quality ranking for this position. If you are determined to be ineligible or not qualified, your applicion will receive no further considerion. Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help The documents you are required to submit vary based on whether or not you are eligible for preference in federal employment. A complete description of preference cegories and the associed required documents is in the Applicant Checklist for Public Announcements . As described above, your complete applicion includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you marked as having an incomplete applicion package and you will not be considered any further. 1.
Your resume:
Your resume must be two pages or less and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement. Resumes exceeding two pages removed from considerion. For each relevant work experience, make sure you include the employer's name, job title, start and end des (include month and year), for qualificions purposes, the number of hours worked per week, and a brief description th show you can perform the tasks the required level listed in the job announcement. If your resume does not contain this informion, your applicion may be marked as incomplete, and you may not receive considerion for this position. Use plain language. Avoid using acronyms and terms th are not easily understood. The hiring agency will not make assumptions about wh's in your resume. If your resume includes a photograph or other inapproprie merial or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualificion determinions, and you may not be considered for this vacancy. For additional informion, to include formting tips, see: Wh to include in your resume . 2.
Other supporting documents:
Cover Letter, optional Most recent Performance Appraisal, if applicable This position has an individual occupional requirement and/or allows for substitution of educion for experience. If you meet this requirement based on educion you MUST submit a copy of your transcript with your applicion package or you red ineligible.
See:
Transcripts and Licenses .
License/Certificion:
This position requires a job-reled license or certificion. You MUST submit a copy of your license or certificion with your applicion package or you red ineligible.
See:
Transcripts and Licenses .
NOTE:
Documents submitted as part of the applicion package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certifices may contain personal informion for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal informion before you submit your applicion. You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility. If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help To apply for this position, you must complete the online questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 06/23/2026 to receive considerion. To begin, click Apply to access the online applicion. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to cree one before beginning the applicion ( https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12979772 ). Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your applicion package. As a reminder, your resume must be two pages or less and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement. Resumes exceeding two pages removed from considerion. For additional informion, refer to the 'Required Documents' section. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your applicion before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. After acknowledging you have reviewed your applicion package, complete the Include Personal Informion section as you deem approprie and click to continue with the applicion process. You taken to the online applicion which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online applicion, verify the required documention is included with your applicion package, and submit the applicion. Your resume selected in USAJOBS included, but you must re-select other documents from your USAJOBS account or your applicion may be incomplete. It is your responsibility to verify th your applicion package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) is complete, accure, and submitted by the closing de. Uploaded documents may take up to one hour to clear the virus scan. Additional informion on how to complete the online applicion process and submit your online applicion may be found on the USA Staffing Applicant Resource Center . To verify the stus of your applicion, log into your USAJOBS account ( https://www.usajobs.gov/applicant/profile/dashboard/ ), all of your applicions will appear on the Welcome screen. The Applicion Stus will appear along with the de your applicion was last upded. For informion on wh each Applicion Stus means, : https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to/applicion/stus . Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Army Applicant Help Desk Website https://portal.chra.army.mil/hr_public?id=app_inq Address
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Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234 US Next steps If you provided an email address, you will receive an email message acknowledging receipt of your applicion. Your applicion package used to determine your eligibility, qualificions, and quality ranking for this position. If you are determined to be ineligible or not qualified, your applicion will receive no further considerion. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted this month • Apply in 1 day Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on June 23, 2026 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Fort Sam Houston, TX No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible No Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed Yes—You may qualify for reimbursement of relocion expenses in accordance with agency policy. Salary $62,629 - $81,423 per year Pay scale & grade GS 9 Promotion potential None Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required 25% or less - You may be expected to travel up to 25% for this position. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Competitive Service Represented by a union Yes Drug test Yes Security clearance Not Required Position sensitivity and risk Jobs require a and some require a . The type depends on the job. Background check type Financial disclosure required No Some jobs require to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number
