Employer

Central Texas VA Health Care System

Federal employer hiring in Austin through the disability (Schedule A) hiring path on USAJOBS.

Industry	Healthcare
Employees	350,790
Work Arrangement	On-site
Accommodations	Schedule A hiring, Reasonable Accommodation program, peer support roles
Transit Access	Yes
Austin location	Austin VA Outpatient Clinic, 7901 Metropolis Dr, Austin, TX 78744
Parent agency	Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Hiring path	Individuals with disabilities (Schedule A) on USAJOBS
Transit note	Southeast Austin clinic served by CapMetro bus routes; MetroAccess paratransit available to eligible riders.
Employee count source	Wikipedia infobox for the Veterans Health Administration (350,790, 2021)

Overview

The Veterans Health Administration posts Austin jobs on USAJOBS that are open to applicants through the federal Schedule A hiring path for people with disabilities.

The Central Texas Veterans Health Care System is part of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the largest integrated health care system in the United States, with roughly 350,790 employees nationwide. In Austin it operates a large outpatient clinic in southeast Austin, and its postings appear on USAJOBS, the federal government's official job board.

Federal agencies can hire people with disabilities non-competitively through Schedule A, which lets a qualified applicant with a disability skip the standard competitive process. Our USAJOBS API query for Austin jobs on the disability hiring path returned dozens of openings, and VHA roles such as contact representatives, peer support specialists, and clinical support staff are regularly among them.

The VA is also one of the country's largest employers of peer support specialists: people with lived experience of mental health or substance-use recovery who are trained to support others. That makes it a natural next step for graduates of Texas peer specialist certification programs, and many VHA employees are veterans with service-connected disabilities themselves.