Activity Therapy Specialist 2 - 20092410

Ohio Department of Administrative Services•London, OH

12h•Onsite

About The Position

This role plans, organizes, conducts, and ensures the implementation of a clinical adjunctive therapy program/services for inmates assigned to residential treatment units. The specialist directs and monitors all aspects of psychiatric patient day-to-day activities, promotes self-care and physical and mental well-being, and provides direction and assistance in the care, treatment, and/or programs to inmates. The role involves carrying out inmate or group treatment delineated by the multidisciplinary treatment team, promoting activities to inmates on and off the unit, and monitoring and instructing treatment plan programs. The specialist also provides clinical lead work/work direction to lower-level activity therapy specialists, escorts inmates, observes and documents inmate activities and behavior, and intervenes during crisis situations. Additionally, the role includes preparing and maintaining work-related documentation, assisting in administering treatments, facilitating treatment with appropriate interventions, conducting one-on-one communication with inmates, leading and participating in activities, attending interdisciplinary team meetings, reporting problems to supervisors, attending meetings, completing quality assurance monitoring, and performing various miscellaneous tasks as needed.

Requirements

42 mos. exp. in activity therapy or recreation or 42 mos. exp. providing work direction to incarcerated persons & training &/or development.
Completion of associate degree in recreation or specialty area (e.g., music, art, drama, dance); 24 mos. exp. in activity therapy.
Completion of undergraduate core program in recreation or specialty area (e.g., music, art, drama); 18 mos. exp. in activity therapy.
12 mos. exp. as Activity Therapy Specialist 1, 44213.
Equivalent of the Minimum Class Qualifications for Employment Noted Above.
Therapy/Therapeutical Services
Behavioral Health
Basic Documentation
Programming
Professional
Confidentiality
Teamwork
Customer Focus
Decision Making
Emotional Intelligence

Responsibilities

Plans, organizes, conducts and ensures implementation of clinical adjunctive therapy program/services for inmates assigned to residential treatment units
Directs and monitors all aspects of psychiatric patient day-to-day activities
Promotes self-care and physical and mental well-being
Provides direction and assistance in the care, treatment and /or programs to inmates
Carries out inmate or group treatment delineated by the multidisciplinary treatment team
Promotes activities to inmates on and off the unit to include encouraging interaction and /or involvement
Monitors and instructs treatment plan programs to inmates in directing the care of personal hygiene and grooming (e.g., bathes, shaves, feeds and /or dresses patients) and assists as needed
Provides clinical lead work/work direction to lower-level activity therapy specialists
Provides direction to psychiatric inmates in regards to general behavior
Escorts psychiatric inmates to and from off-unit activities
Observes and monitors inmate activities and behavior and documents in progress notes on regular basis
Intervenes during crisis behavior to prevent inmate self-injury or injury to others
Assists with subduing of violent inmates
Attends to and monitors inmates
Recognizes unusual and /or threatening conditions and takes appropriate action.
Prepares and maintains work related documentation (e.g., records or evaluations of individual progress and /or involvement towards established goals of education or treatment plan, reports regarding equipment maintenance, completes requisitions and /or purchase orders for supplies and equipment, files on patient treatment plans, notes of unusual inmate behavior department log on attendance and participation of residents in program, inmate assessment and program proposals written by staff)
Assists in administering treatments as directed by the treatment/behavior plan
Facilitates treatment with appropriate interventions as decided by treatment team
Conducts one-on-one communication/interaction with inmates to address patient concerns and resolve problems
Leads and participates with inmates in activities, both on and off the unit
Participates in interdisciplinary team meetings and collaborates with other members of the treatment team
Reports any problems and /or unusual incidents directly to immediate supervisor as appropriate
Attends scheduled meetings
Completes quality assurance monitoring and documentation
Completes mandatory training and optional in-service programs
Performs various miscellaneous tasks as needed for contingencies on assigned units
Assists other departments (e.g., security, psychology) when necessary
Perform other duties as assigned