Activity Therapist, Peace Hospital, 12p-8:30p

Job Title: Activities Therapist

This position works 12p-8:30p Monday thru Friday with primarily adolescent units at Peace Hospital.

The activities therapist is responsible for performing therapeutic recreational assessments, making recommendations for therapeutic interventions and carrying out general and specialized activity therapy interventions and programs in assigned treatment areas. This employee provides direct patient care to various patient populations including children, adolescents, and adults.

Essential Functions:

• Utilizes knowledge of activity therapy to perform activity therapy assessments which accurately assess the patient's abilities and needs and makes individualized, specific, measurable recommendations which are clinically appropriate to facilitate meeting patients' treatment goals
• Participates in interdisciplinary treatment planning meetings, or gives written input, offering patient updates, treatment suggestions, and the sharing of program observations with other treatment team members; ensures treatment plan entries are individualized, specific, measurable and updated as the patient's needs change
• Evaluates effectiveness of therapeutic modality or intervention in assisting patient to process therapeutic issues and feelings and in goal achievement; identifies revisions to approach/modality to further enhance patients' positive therapeutic response and demonstrates flexibility in adapting therapeutic approach based on professional reassessment and feedback from peers and treatment team
• Reports patient incidents occurring in the activity therapy process promptly and concisely, to the appropriate staff members
• Develops and maintains an orderly, safe and appropriately stocked supply of recreational therapeutic mediums in order to conduct safe and effective clinical activities
• Maintains accurate patient charts by recording and updating information while ensuring confidentiality of documentation, ensures documentation reflects patient(s) presentation, goals of individual or group therapeutic intervention, modality used and patient response in behaviorally-specific terms
• Develops therapeutic activities for assigned patients and independently conducts a variety of therapy groups, utilizing effective expressive mediums and group therapy principles, appropriate for patient(s) age, developmental level and clinical presentation

Shift Requirements:

Shift Length (in hours): 8-10 hours depending on scheduling needs

# Shifts/Week: 4-5 days per week depending on scheduling needs

Overtime Required: Infrequently Sometimes Often n/a (exempt position)

Other Functions:

• Assumes personal responsibility for maintaining professional development, licensure, practice and/or education
• Initiates and completes special projects as assigned; e.g., participation in program development, student supervision, staff orientation/training
• Maintains compliance with all company policies, procedures and standards of conduct
• Complies with HIPAA privacy and security requirements to maintain confidentiality at all times
• Performs other duties as assigned

Additional Job Description:

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, Therapeutic Recreation, or related field (required)

Experience:

• Minimum one (1) year experience providing direct individual or group therapeutic services (required)

Job Competency:

• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services
• Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders
• The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense
• The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events)
• Active listeningGiving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions when appropriate and not interrupting at inappropriate times
• Social perceptivenessbeing aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do

Language Ability:

• Must be able to communicate effectively in both verbal and written formats

Reasoning Ability :

• Able to critically think through complex patient situations, process improvements, evidence-based practice
• Able to assist others in developing clinical reasoning skills

Computer Skills:

• Must have the ability to learn and use the electronic documentation system appropriately

Additional Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates a commitment to service, organization values and professionalism through appropriate conduct and demeanor at all times
• Maintains confidentiality and protects sensitive data at all times
• Adheres to organizational and department specific safety standards and guidelines
• Works collaboratively and supports efforts of team members
• Demonstrates exceptional customer service and interacts effectively with physicians, patients, residents, visitors, staff and the broader health care community