REHABILITATION THERAPIST, STATE FACILITIES (RECREATION-SAFETY)

Job Title and Description

METROPOLITAN STATE HOSPITAL- Located in Norwalk, Los Angeles County This advertisement is posted until filled and is for multiple vacancies. Applications will be reviewed on the 1st and 15th of each month, and selections can be made. However, the Job Control will remain open until the vacancy is filled.

Under the clinical and the administrative direction the Program Director Chief of Rehabilitation Therapy Services, the Rehabilitation Therapist assists in facilitating and ensuring that quality Rehabilitation Therapy services, treatment and care are delivered to patients in a safe environment. The Rehabilitation Therapist will maintain responsible stewardship and excellence in forensic evaluation and treatment. The Rehabilitation Therapist is required to have knowledge of mental health principles; the ability to speak and write grammatically; good interpersonal skills, time management skills, organizational skills, and computer skills; and ensure that the provision of Rehabilitation Therapy services is directed toward restoring and maintaining optimal levels of physical and psychosocial functioning throughout the patient's continuum of care. While all Rehabilitation Therapists will be involved in a wide range of habilitative and rehabilitative services, assignments will, to the greatest extent possible, be to positions requiring training and experience in a specific discipline such as:

• ART - Uses the art process and product as reflections of an individual's development, abilities, personality, impairments, concerns and potential. Provides a range of services, including assessment and treatment that support increases in functioning, resiliency, adaptive capabilities, coping skills, social skills, leisure skills and quality of life.
• DANCE Uses body movement and dance as the process in therapeutic intervention specifically directed toward gaining insight into problematic behavior and toward expanding and individual's freedom of movement, flexibility, and coordination provides opportunity for expression and communication of feelings, needs, and conflicts; and facilitates positive change in body image.
• MUSIC Uses music interventions to provide a nonthreatening, self-motivating experience to assist and individual in relating to the immediate environment the self, and the community; and provides atmosphere compatible to behavior change self-expression and nonverbal and verbal communication.
• RECREATION Uses self-motivating, recreational activities to improve functioning and independence as well as to reduce or alleviate mental health symptoms, and to restore, remediate, or rehabilitate motor skills, social skills, life skills, coping skills, sensory function; and provides recreation and leisure counseling to enable the patient to appropriately manage his/her leisure and daily lifestyle.
• OCCUPATIONAL- Persons in this series of specialty classes apply therapeutic habilitation/rehabilitation knowledge, skill enhancement activities, and techniques to the problems of developmental, mental, or physical disordered offenders.

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ELIGIBILITY, YOU MUST TAKE THE EXAM . The examination is a separate process from applying for this vacancy. Please carefully read and follow the instructions for each process. DANCE : CalCareers RECREATION: CalCareers ART: CalCareers MUSIC: CalCareers OCCUPATIONAL: CalCareers

You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.