Activity Therapist FT

Summit BHC•Bettendorf, IA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Activity Therapist plans, organizes, and conducts comprehensive recreational therapy services as part of patients’ treatment plans. The role helps patients learn healthy coping skills, identify strengths and hobbies, and develop social skills and relationships. Programming must follow accepted standards of practice and established policies and procedures. The therapist assesses patients and develops individualized activities programming based on their needs, skills, interests, strengths, and limitations. Activities may include therapeutic leisure skills and education, exercise, games, sports, dance, music, art, and relaxation techniques. The therapist engages patients in individual and group programming across physical, social, intellectual, creative, and spiritual activity domains, adapting activities to participants’ needs and maintaining a safe environment. The position also involves monitoring patient progress, documenting assessments and progress notes, and maintaining departmental resources, supplies, and equipment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in therapeutic recreation, recreational therapy, or a related field.
One or more years of recreation experience in a healthcare setting.
Knowledge of the patient population served by the facility.
Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS), currently in the process of obtaining national certification, certification in a specialty area such as art, dance, or music, or clinical professional licensure such as LCPC or LPC with certification in an expressive therapy area.
Ability to work on-site at the facility; the position is not remote.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree.

Responsibilities

Assess patients through patient and family interviews to identify needs, skills, interests, strengths, and limitations for individualized treatment planning.
Plan and implement activities programming, including therapeutic leisure skills, leisure education, and leisure awareness, to meet patient needs and treatment goals.
Coordinate patient activities and provide a safe environment.
Orient patients to the activities program and explain its benefits.
Engage patients in therapeutic activities such as exercise, games, sports, dance, music, art, and relaxation techniques.
Monitor and evaluate patients’ progress, interest levels, attitudes, and behaviors.
Provide individual and group recreation programming across physical, social, intellectual, creative, and spiritual domains, modifying activities to suit specific groups.
Provide patients with activity resources, supplies, and equipment as needed, and request needed items in a timely manner.
Help patients learn social skills needed to become or remain independent.
Complete documentation, including assessments and progress notes, in a timely manner.
Help develop and maintain departmental resources and share responsibility for monitoring equipment and supplies.