Therapeutic Recreation Specialist

5 days ago

West Peoria, United States Carle Health Full time

Overview

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.
Qualifications

License/Certifications:
Certified Alcohol and Other Drug Counselor (CADC) - Illinois Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Professional Certification Association (IAODAPCA)

Education:
Bachelor's Degree: Music Therapy; Bachelor's Degree: Therapeutic Recreation; Bachelor's Degree: Recreation Management

Other Knowledge/Skills:

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
  • Documentation is legible, concise, and clinically appropriate
  • 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 actively 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

About Us

Find it here.

Discover the job, the career, the purpose you were meant for. The supportive and inclusive team where you can thrive. The place where growth meets balance - and opportunities meet flexibility. Find it all at Carle Health.

Based in Urbana, IL, Carle Health is a healthcare system with nearly 16,600 team members in its eight hospitals, physician groups and a variety of healthcare businesses. Carle BroMenn Medical Center, Carle Foundation Hospital, Carle Health Methodist Hospital, Carle Health Proctor Hospital, Carle Health Pekin Hospital, and Carle Hoopeston Regional Health Center hold Magnet designations, the nation's highest honor for nursing care. The system includes Methodist College and Carle Illinois College of Medicine, the world's first engineering-based medical school, and Health Alliance. We offer opportunities in several communities throughout central Illinois with potential for growth and life-long careers at Carle Health.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. Carle Health participates in E-Verify and may provide the Social Security Administration and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. | For more information: human.resources@carle.com.

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