Recreation Therapist

University of Washington•Seattle, WA

12d

About The Position

Harborview Rehab Therapy is hiring a Recreation Therapist to assess, plan, and administer safe recreational therapy, including progressing treatment goals and educating patients and families. The therapist manages a caseload with routine to complex patient needs and applies their training throughout evaluation and treatment. The role collaborates with other disciplines to coordinate continuity of care from admission through discharge. The therapist provides skilled, timely, and effective patient care; adapts treatment plans to patients’ responses; and follows relevant protocols, standards, and guidelines. They document assessments, measurable criteria, goals, treatment methods, and home programs according to organizational standards. They also participate in team rounds and provide patients and support systems with home programs and educational information before therapy intervention ends. This is a temporary, per-diem position with day shifts. Harborview Medical Center is a King County-owned facility operated by UW Medicine and is the region’s only Level I Trauma and verified burn center. It serves patients across the Pacific Northwest and provides specialized care in areas including emergency medicine, trauma and burn care, neurosciences, rehabilitation, mental health, and substance abuse care.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited Therapeutic Recreation Program or equivalent education/experience.

Responsibilities

Assess, plan, and administer safe recreational therapy, including progression of treatment goals and patient and family education.
Assess and treat a caseload ranging from routine to complex patient problems, using training in the evaluation and treatment process.
Collaborate with other disciplines to coordinate continuity of patient care from admission to discharge.
Demonstrate working knowledge of disease processes, precautions, typical medical treatment and diagnostic procedures, functional abilities, and complications and implications of long-term deficits related to diagnoses treated in the service area.
Provide skilled, timely, and effective patient care.
Demonstrate competency in administering evaluations and delivering treatment to typical patients.
Adapt treatment plans according to patients’ responses to interventions.
Follow protocols, standards, and guidelines of care for specific diagnoses on the assigned service.
Document interventions and treatment strategies according to workgroup and organizational standards, including assessments, measurable criteria, goals, treatment methods, and home programs.
Participate in team rounds.
Provide home programs and educational information to patients and their support systems before therapy intervention ends.