Licensed Creative Arts Therapist

4 weeks ago


New York, United States NYC Health Hospitals Full time

NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan is the community hospital of choice for residents of East Harlem, northern Manhattan, and neighboring communities. The hospital provides culturally-sensitive care in a welcoming and hospitable setting, emphasizing primary care medicine and utilizing the latest advances in medical science. Metropolitan delivers high quality health services with compassion, dignity, and respect to all, without exception. Since its founding in 1875, the hospital has been affiliated with New York Medical College, representing the oldest partnership between a hospital and a private medical school in the United States. Metropolitan is a part of the NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest municipal hospital and health care system in the country.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Work Shifts

9:00 A.M - 5:00 P.M

Job Description

  1. Strategic planning associated with health and wellness programs and overall embedding and fostering of wellness culture; facilitate the strategy and process to launch new programs based on the 8 Dimensions of Well-being across the facility/service line.
  2. Provide emotional debriefs, a 1 :1 or group conversation with a focus on reflection, to foster a supportive and safe environment for all employees to connect and engage in emotional and psychological processing; minimum of 20 wellness encounters (1 :1/group debriefs and wellness events) per month across all tours.
  3. Prep, plan, and facilitate wellness events that align to the 8 Dimensions of Well-being that are customized to services, settings, departments, and disciplines using group techniques.
  4. Facilitates proactive and preventative wellness rounds equitably throughout their assigned facility. Support wellness room awareness, utilization, satisfaction, and maintenance.
  5. Track all encounters on a monthly basis, enter pertinent information into the quality assurance program portal, and provide qualitative and quantitative data-based insights on facility/service line specific utilization of the H3 program to key stakeholders.
  6. Assist in coordination, planning, and facilitation of wellness activities, celebratory events, and recognition programs for employees.
  7. Proactive wellness and real-time crisis support for employees; assist in the development of facilitybased crisis plans for employees.
  8. Lead and facilitate, in concert with H3 Lead and Wellness Program Director, department meetings to embed unit-based wellness programming and improvement cycles.
  9. Utilize data to facilitate PDSA cycles and to make targeted wellness interventions for clinical and non-clinical disciplines across departments.
  10. Plan and implements trainings, speakers, seminars, and custom in-services that promote overall awareness and wellbeing of employees.
  11. Provides discipline & service-based wellness education and report-outs (e.g. resident orientation, grand rounds, M&Ms, Town Hall, departmental meetings, executive meetings, etc.).
  12. Participate in service recovery surrounding staff well-being after sentinel events as well as risk management cases while ensuring the facility/service line are equipped to provide the necessary confidential wellness support to their staff in times of need.
  13. Ensure wellness programming is spread across the facility/service line equitably while establishing access across tours, weekends, and holidays by overseeing facility specific H3 teams and programs.
  14. Regularly evaluate the program components to improve employee satisfaction when utilizing services and identify new opportunities via continuous monitoring of nationwide, city, and state trends and best practices; partner with external organizations as needed.
  15. Active participation in facility and system-wide steering team meetings.
  16. Facilitate Peer Support Champion Trainings and support PSC engagement and retention.
  17. Flexible scheduling to accommodate equitable wellness programming (e.g., weekends, nights, holidays) with manager discretion.
  18. All other duties as assigned by the manager.


Minimum Qualifications

Assignment Level I
1. A valid License or Limited Permit issued by the New York State Education Department to practice as a Creative Arts Therapist. Employees working with a Limited Permit must obtain
Licensure within two years from their date of appointment.
Assignment Level II
1. A valid License issued by the New York State Education Department to practice as a
Creative Arts Therapist; and
2. Two years of full-time, paid, professional experience in creative arts therapy.
Assignment Level III
In addition to meeting the requirements for Assignment Levels II, Assignment Level III
requires:
1. One additional year of experience

Additional Qualifications

This position relies heavily on having strong interpersonal and critical thinking skills.
Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and group facilitation skills required
Ability and desire to work with a diverse group of individuals. This includes cultural competency, cultural humility, and the ability to communicate respectfully and effectively with clinical and non-clinical staff, and leadership
Strong leadership and management skills
The ability to find innovative ways to resolve problems.
At least two years of experience in healthcare. Relevant experience in program, program management or facilitation preferred.

In addition, you can submit your resume to METCareers@nychhc.org with the Job Title and Job ID # of the job posting that you applied to in the subject line of the email.

NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes:
  • Comprehensive Health Benefits for employees hired to work 20+ hrs. per week
  • Retirement Savings and Pension Plans
  • Loan Forgiveness Programs for eligible employees
  • Paid Holidays and Vacation in accordance with employees' Collectively bargained contracts
  • College tuition discounts and professional development opportunities
  • Multiple employee discounts programs


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