Recreation Specialist

Summary

The VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System is recruiting for Recreation Specialist. The Recreation Specialist will function in Recreation Therapy Service. Incumbent serves as the Activities Coordinator for assigned patient care areas.

Duties

The Recreation Specialist duties include, but are not limited to:

• Communicates and treats customers (Veterans, their representatives, visitors, and all VA staff) in a courteous, tactful, and respectful manner.
• Plans and carry out highly specialized and diversified treatment of a wide variety of acutely and clinically complex medical patients.
• Plans, implement, and conduct ongoing highly specialized and diversified recreation therapy treatment interventions for patients with varying degrees of impairments.
• Independently applies wide-ranging knowledge of recreation therapy concepts, principle, practices, procedures, roles, strategies, techniques, and treatment interventions/ modalities.
• Utilizes knowledge of a variety of standardized assessments tools in a systematic approach to collect comprehensive and accurate data.
• Informs the patient of his/her responsibility in the collection of assessment information and seeks collaboration in the process.
• Possess broad knowledge of the human body, psychology and the characteristics of physical and mental illness.
• Employs broad knowledge of medical terminology, recreation therapy, social recreation, activity therapy, therapeutic techniques, and fundamental sciences such as physiology, anatomy pathology, and psychology.
• Knowledge is applied in functions such as interpreting medical information in relation to disabilities, planning treatment, evaluating the condition and progress of patients, development of therapeutic techniques and devices, evaluating and advising on limitations and usefulness of recreation therapy interventions, and orienting/ training/supervising student therapists, volunteers, and/or compensated work therapy (CWT) worker.
• Applies the rehabilitation process in meeting the needs of the patient and exercises judgment in making recurrent and wide-ranging changes in procedures and approaches to enable the patient to achieve maximum rehab potential rather than yielding to their disabilities.
• Applies individualized behavioral interventions and therapeutic procedures designed to reduce stress and anxiety, build confidence, diminish negative behaviors, recover of basic motor functioning, problem-solving and reasoning abilities, as well as develop compensatory strategies to master skills necessary to sustain an independent leisure lifestyle within the least restrictive environment.

Work Schedule: Tuesday- Saturday, 8:00am-4:30pm or 11:00am 7:30pm, rotating holidays and weekends

Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized

Telework: Not Authorized.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Recreation Specialist/PD137030

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

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