Recreation Therapist Intern

Recreation Therapist Intern

Quail Run Hospital is a 115-bed, acute care psychiatric hospital located in Phoenix, Arizona. Quail Run features individual units for adolescents, adults, and seniors, and offers inpatient acute care, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient programs. On average, over 10,000 patients receive care from our compassionate health care team each year at Quail Run Behavioral Health.

Under the supervision of the Recreation Therapy Director and Recreation Therapist Internship Coordinator, the Recreation Therapist Intern is responsible for planning and implementing therapeutic recreation groups for assigned program, which involves program planning, documentation, assessments, defining and implementing treatment goals as a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team and providing continuous patient care, observation, interaction, and role modeling to patients.

Job Duties:

• Assist in effectively plan and implement recreation therapy groups for assigned units.
• Participate in Holiday Programming planning and facilitation all treatment programs.
• Utilize advanced knowledge of counseling and therapeutic concepts and methods for determining therapeutic services for psychiatric and chemically dependent patients.
• Demonstrate knowledge of group dynamics as well as therapy and practice of group processing.
• Assist and maintain current documentation in daily progress notes, including name of therapeutic group/intervention, and patient's progress towards goal.

Qualifications:

Job Requirements:

• Internship in Recreation related bachelor's program.
• Must complete full week of hospital orientation.
• Handle With Care and Basic Life Support (BLS) for Providers required. Training provided at the facility.
• Level 1 Arizona Fingerprint Clearance card or be able to obtain within 30 days of hire.

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