Recreation Therapist

Job Title

Recreation/Creative Arts Therapist

Duties

Duties include but limited to the following:

• The incumbent has the ability to use professional knowledge effectively and must possess initiative, tact, resourcefulness and good judgement in exercising authority.
• Recreation/Creative Arts Therapists provide treatment to restore, improve, or maintain a patient's level of functioning, self-care, independence, quality of life, and activity skills.
• Uses recreation or creative art activity modalities to maintain or achieve rehabilitation of physical and/or mental health.
• Evaluates the history, interests, aptitudes, and skills of veterans by interviews, inventories, tests, and measurements.
• Recreation Therapy, a direct-care interdisciplinary service, is to improve and enrich bio-psycho-social functioning through active therapy and/or meaningful therapeutic activities to maintain or improve functional independence and life quality for Veteran patients. Recreation Therapy provides therapeutic and self-directed programs for a variety of patient populations including Medical Foster Home (MFH), Geriatrics and
• The incumbent has the ability to use professional knowledge effectively and must possess initiative, tact, resourcefulness and good judgement in exercising authority.
• Recreation/Creative Arts Therapists provide treatment to restore, improve, or maintain a patient's level of functioning, self-care, independence, quality of life, and activity skills.
• Uses recreation or creative art activity modalities to maintain or achieve rehabilitation of physical and/or mental health. Evaluates the history, interests, aptitudes, and skills of veterans by interviews, inventories, tests, and measurements. Recreation Therapy, a direct-care interdisciplinary service, is to improve and enrich bio-psycho-social functioning through active therapy and/or meaningful therapeutic activities to maintain or improve functional independence and life quality for Veteran patients.
• Recreation Therapy provides therapeutic and self-directed programs for a variety of patient populations including Medical Foster Home (MFH), Geriatrics and Extended Care, Chronic Psychiatry, Acute Psychiatry.
• The incumbent will be required to a commercial driver's license if you operate the government vehicle.
• Other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: 2 days weekly/8:00AM-6:30PM

Compressed/Flexible:

Telework: Not Authorized

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 00000

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized