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Physical Therapist – Home Based Primary Care
Veterans Health Administration · Canton, Ohio · Closes in 3 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, The public.
You must be a U.S. citizen, national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S. to apply. Current permanent federal employees of other agencies may also apply.
Experience: You need a bachelor's degree in physical therapy plus 5 years of progressively independent experience as a physical therapist, or a master's degree in physical therapy plus 2 years of that experience. The full GS-12 level also requires 1 year of experience equivalent to GS-11, and the job may be filled at GS-11 or GS-12.
Education: A doctorate in physical therapy qualifies you on its own. A bachelor's or master's in physical therapy must be combined with the years of experience listed above. Your school must be recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, and foreign education needs a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency.
Licenses and certifications:
- Full, current, unrestricted license to practice physical therapy in a U.S. state, territory, Commonwealth, or D.C.
- Valid state-issued driver's license that is not restricted
- Unlicensed physical therapists may get a temporary graduate PT appointment at GS-11 for up to 2 years, but only under a licensed PT's supervision
Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.
2 Resume and documents
Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.
3 Apply on USAJOBS
Closes in 3 days (November 6, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.
How they rate you: You will be rated on how well you meet the qualifications, based on your online questionnaire and your documents. Your experience will be verified, and errors or missing information may lower your rating or make you ineligible.
4 After you apply
In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.
For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.
If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Include a copy of your physical therapy license and driver's license, since both are required documents.
- If you use your education to qualify, send transcripts from schools recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
- Claim veterans' preference in the questionnaire and attach your DD-214 if it applies.
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