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We are seeking a highly skilled Recreation Therapist 2 to join our team at the Department of Children, Youth, and Families. As a Recreation Therapist 2, you will play a critical role in planning, organizing, and leading therapeutic recreation activities to meet the needs, interests, and abilities of individual residents at Eco Glen Children's Center.

• Assess, plan, develop, implement, and modify therapeutic recreation services to meet the individual needs of a co-educational offender population with varying degrees of mental health and security requirements.
• Provide interventions with youth to reduce the use of isolation and room confinement.
• Perform therapeutic recreation assessments of residents.
• Plan, organize, and implement therapeutic recreation Plan of Care to meet the needs of individual residents.
• Facilitate improvement of social, cognitive, emotional, and physical functional abilities.
• Organize and lead recreational therapy activities.
• Help youth identify goals and link them to opportunities and resources on campus to aid in goal-directed behaviors.
• Work in aquatics and one or more skill areas, directing, conducting, or instructing in programs of sports, music, arts, and crafts.
• Develop and procure programming that is specific to addressing egregious behaviors that would lead to room confinement.
• Use evidence-based interventions, specifically DBT.
• Attend to security responses for aggressive behaviors and provide the opportunity to remove non-aggressive youth from the unit and engage in programming to allow for de-escalation without confining other youth.
• Direct, train, and coordinate the work of recreation therapy students and/or volunteers in therapeutic recreational procedures.
• Perform basic data entry and retrieval functions using an electronic management information system.

• Graduation from an accredited Therapeutic Recreation Program, AND 18 months of professional therapeutic recreation experience.
• OR Equivalent education/experience.
• Demonstrated understanding of adolescent development and juvenile rehabilitation practices and principles.
• Experience providing cognitive/behavioral therapeutic interventions.
• Demonstrated competency in relating to clients from diverse backgrounds and cultural groups.
• Knowledge of principles and techniques of group and individual therapeutic recreation.
• Knowledge and training in aquatics, arts, and crafts, music, and sports.
• Principles of supervision.
• Basic knowledge of pool operations and health and safety codes to develop and teach various swim classes for all levels and abilities.

We offer a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, and basic life insurance, as well as a retirement plan and paid leave. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, national origin, honorably discharged veteran or military status, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability or the use of a trained service animal by a person with a disability.

We are committed to creating a diverse and equitable workplace that reflects the communities we serve. If you are excited about this role but believe that your education and/or experience might not align perfectly with every qualification in the job posting, we encourage you to apply anyway.