Therapeutic Recreation Specialist - Adolescent Behavioral Health 8 West

About the position

Provides restorative, rehabilitative, and recreational services to patients on the following areas: behavior health (inpatient and partial hospitalization), rehabilitation unit and skilled nursing unit; consultative and prn services provided to pediatrics.

Responsibilities

• Conducts initial and ongoing assessments with patients and documentation is timely, complete, legible, concise, and related to the identified needs of the patients.
• Conducts thorough initial assessments within time frame indicated in department-specific policy.
• Demonstrates awareness of appropriate assessment tools/techniques and their application.
• Conducts ongoing assessments as appropriate.
• Input on care path is timely, legible, concise, and clinically appropriate.
• Progress notes relate to patient needs/problems identified in the care path.
• Progress notes reflect staff intervention as well as patient response (effectiveness of intervention) utilizing DAIR format.
• Progress notes are timely and meet the frequency as stipulated in the department-specific policies.
• Provides therapeutic services for patients.
• Individual or group activities occur on time and as scheduled.
• Services are individualized to the needs/functional abilities of the current patients.
• Services provided are targeted to the needs identified in the patients' care paths.
• Services provided are evidence-based reflecting current and accepted techniques and are of high quality.
• Seeks clinical supervision when appropriate.
• Makes appropriate referrals for ancillary/supportive services.
• Takes all necessary precautions and risk management steps to protect patients' safety at all times.
• Group facilitation skills reflect understanding of group dynamics as well as dynamics of individual diseases/disorders.
• Assures that therapeutic activity therapy supplies are available to meet patient needs.
• Demonstrates knowledge of developmental levels as well as age-appropriate activities.
• Designs and implements community re-integration activities.
• Uses CPI methods when dealing with agitated, aggressive patients.
• Actively participates in the multidisciplinary team approach to care.
• Participates in team staff meetings.
• Participates in multidisciplinary staff meeting.
• Documents plan of care-on-care path.
• Communicates timely and appropriately with other members of the treatment team regarding the patients' progress.
• Advocates for needs of patients.
• Uses informal opportunities to collaborate with other disciplines.
• Uses creativity and knowledge of disease and recovery, in planning care for patients.
• Serves on interdisciplinary committees as requested by Nurse Manager.
• Participates in quality improvement activities.
• Identifies areas for improvement related to Therapeutic Activity Services (TAS) role in the care of patients.
• Participates in data collection for quality improvement purposes.
• Participates in development and implementation of action plans for quality improvement.
• Demonstrates initiative in the improvement of TAS services.
• Demonstrates initiative in his/her professional growth.

Requirements

• Certified Alcohol and Other Drug Counselor (CADC) - Illinois Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Professional Certification Association (IAODAPCA)
• Bachelor's Degree: Music Therapy
• Bachelor's Degree: Therapeutic Recreation
• Bachelor's Degree: Recreation Management

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package