Therapeutic Recreation Aid 4-10's
Highland-Clarksburg Hospital, Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States, 26301
Therapeutic Recreation Aid 4-10's
Conducts comprehensive recreational therapy services designed to facilitate the psychosocial rehabilitation of psychiatric patients in an acute psychiatric health care facility. Reports directly to the Therapeutic Recreation Director. Essential functions include explaining the benefits and orienting patients to the therapeutic recreation program, interacting with patients during sessions, observing patient interest levels and motivating them toward therapeutic recreation activities, leading and executing planned therapeutic recreation sessions, understanding the abilities and special needs of specific age groups, completing documentation accurately and timely, listening attentively to patient complaints and working to alleviate problems, assisting patients in developing an understanding of benefits of ongoing health and fitness, maintaining safety checks for therapeutic recreation supplies, conducting therapeutic recreation assessments on each patient within 48 hours of admission, maintaining observation of patients and sharing appropriate information with charge nurse, supervisor and other co-workers, maintaining cleaning logs for multipurpose rooms, supplies and equipment. Additional responsibilities include receiving a thorough report from nursing staff before taking patients to off unit group activities and before providing on unit therapeutic recreation sessions, attending and participating in Recreation department meetings and may be asked to work on committees or teams, understanding treatment planning process and how it correlates with providing active treatment interventions for quality outcome based recreation therapy to help reach goals, working with the multidisciplinary treatment team to develop and implement individualized therapeutic recreation interventions, self-motivating, performing non-patient duties between responsibilities, checking with supervisor to approve spending, maintaining supplies and keeping inventory, keeping aware and helping enforce hospital and departmental policies and procedures, assisting in orientation of new employees, learning to use various copiers or fax machines, exercising good judgment and setting positive examples, using TQM principals, and other duties as assigned. Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Education and experience: High school diploma or equivalent. Prior experience working with people in a therapeutic recreation activity, supportive, or service capacity is preferred. Completion of MEPAP 1 course is preferred. Language skills: Ability to read and interpret instructions, documents and follow procedures. Ability to write routine reports and speak effectively with patients and their families, employees, and public. Reasoning ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables as needed. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. Certificates, licenses, registration: Valid West Virginia driver's license. Other skills and abilities: Ability to work flexible hours. Ability to work with children, adolescents or adults experiencing mental health disturbances or dual diagnoses.
Conducts comprehensive recreational therapy services designed to facilitate the psychosocial rehabilitation of psychiatric patients in an acute psychiatric health care facility. Reports directly to the Therapeutic Recreation Director. Essential functions include explaining the benefits and orienting patients to the therapeutic recreation program, interacting with patients during sessions, observing patient interest levels and motivating them toward therapeutic recreation activities, leading and executing planned therapeutic recreation sessions, understanding the abilities and special needs of specific age groups, completing documentation accurately and timely, listening attentively to patient complaints and working to alleviate problems, assisting patients in developing an understanding of benefits of ongoing health and fitness, maintaining safety checks for therapeutic recreation supplies, conducting therapeutic recreation assessments on each patient within 48 hours of admission, maintaining observation of patients and sharing appropriate information with charge nurse, supervisor and other co-workers, maintaining cleaning logs for multipurpose rooms, supplies and equipment. Additional responsibilities include receiving a thorough report from nursing staff before taking patients to off unit group activities and before providing on unit therapeutic recreation sessions, attending and participating in Recreation department meetings and may be asked to work on committees or teams, understanding treatment planning process and how it correlates with providing active treatment interventions for quality outcome based recreation therapy to help reach goals, working with the multidisciplinary treatment team to develop and implement individualized therapeutic recreation interventions, self-motivating, performing non-patient duties between responsibilities, checking with supervisor to approve spending, maintaining supplies and keeping inventory, keeping aware and helping enforce hospital and departmental policies and procedures, assisting in orientation of new employees, learning to use various copiers or fax machines, exercising good judgment and setting positive examples, using TQM principals, and other duties as assigned. Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Education and experience: High school diploma or equivalent. Prior experience working with people in a therapeutic recreation activity, supportive, or service capacity is preferred. Completion of MEPAP 1 course is preferred. Language skills: Ability to read and interpret instructions, documents and follow procedures. Ability to write routine reports and speak effectively with patients and their families, employees, and public. Reasoning ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables as needed. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. Certificates, licenses, registration: Valid West Virginia driver's license. Other skills and abilities: Ability to work flexible hours. Ability to work with children, adolescents or adults experiencing mental health disturbances or dual diagnoses.