Recreation Specialist

4 weeks ago

West Chester, United States Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health Full time

Description:
Do you have experience working directly with children or adolescents with intellectual or behavioral disorders? Are you organized and enjoy planning events and activities?

If you answered YES to those questions, considering joining Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health.

As a **Recreation Specialist**, you will work with other professionals and team members to provide excellent quality of care and treatment to children & adolescents in our care.

**What you will be offered**:

- **Consistent schedule of 1pm-9pm**:

- Ability to be creative (we encourage it)
- Opportunities to learn and grow in the behavioral health and human services fields.
- Specialized training opportunities including PBIS, ABA, TIC, Safe and Positive Approaches, DBT and IEP.
- Opportunities to teach youth valuable life skills and be a positive role model.
- Quality Low-Cost Benefits, student loan debt assistance and 30-day benefit eligibility waiting period.
- ASCEND- Career Accelerator Program
- ** Hourly rate of $17.00 - $19.38 depending upon experience**

**Some of your daily responsibilities include**:

- Plans, implements and oversees social and recreational programs for students with developmental and/or behavioral disabilities.
- Through established recreational procedures, tracks, records and implements effective recreational activities.
- Schedules use of gymnasium, pool and other recreational areas.
- Schedules, oversees and implements special events and activities, as well as monitors appropriate documentation and records (IE: Special Olympics, Fall Festival, Summer Picnic, etc.)
- Maintains supplies and inventory for unit activities

We are currently seeking a Recreation Specialist to design, create and implement recreational and social activities and programs for children/adolescents with intellectual & developmental disabilities/autism diagnosis and behavioral health needs, residing in our residential programs located in West Chester, PA.

**Devereux Pennsylvania Children’s Services (DPACS)** center serves children, adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, behavioral, emotional and psychiatric challenges and disorders. Located in West Chester and Malvern Pennsylvania, services provided include psychiatric residential treatment (PRTF), residential treatment (RTF), acute inpatient psychiatric hospital (AIP), assessment services, community-based mental health services, community-based employment training and social skills training, and approved private school educational services to male and female children and adolescents (6-21 years of age) with diagnoses of intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, concomitant psychiatric and behavioral challenges often associated with experiencing some level of trauma in their lives. A primary focus throughout the program is the philosophy of Program-Wide Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PW-PBIS), a program-wide system of care that promotes and rewards positive behaviors, and prevents negative behaviors, to create safe, supportive living environments. Each year, more than 1,000 children and adolescents receive specialized care, in the environment best suited to the unique challenges they face, all with the goal of providing each child with the academic, social, emotional and life skills needed to flourish in their home community.

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Qualifications:
**EDUCATION**: Bachelor's degree in related field prefered.

Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse, and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.

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