*$20.67 - $27.50HR (PAY BASED ON EXPERIENCE)*

Masonic Villages of Pennsylvania - Elizabethtown Campus - is immediately hiring for a Recreation Therapist.
With over 145 years of providing award-winning care and services across the state of PA, Masonic Villages is driven by our Mission of Love to assist individuals in realizing their potential and enjoying the highest possible quality of life.

• Demonstrating knowledge of CMS federal and state regulations.
• Demonstrating and displaying the ability to implement the American Therapeutic Recreation Association Standards of Practice for Therapeutic Recreation.
• Continuing education to maintain professional certifications.
• Demonstrating knowledge and displaying the ability to develop, implement, and evaluate programming to restore, remediate, rehabilitate or maintain the resident’s physical, social, cognitive, emotional and spiritual functioning.
• Providing services ranging from diversional activities, to therapeutic activities and individual therapy sessions; all focused on meeting residents’ needs, their recreation interests and preferences.
• Demonstrating and displaying the ability to conduct an ongoing assessment in an effort to collect systematic, comprehensive, and accurate data to complete the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) and Therapeutic Recreation Assessments.
• Demonstrating and displaying the ability to use both verbal and written communication skills to share their evaluation of a resident via assessments and progress notes.
• Demonstrating and displaying the ability to develop and write a resident centered focused plan of care that includes a measurable goal and individualized interventions. The plan will addresses the resident’s needs from a physical, cognitive, social, emotional and/or spiritual domain.
• Demonstrating and displaying the ability to create and maintain a monthly neighborhood calendar.
• Managing and balancing a neighborhood Therapeutic Recreation budget for programming and community trips.
• Ordering and maintaining an organized inventory of programming supplies and equipment
• Actions, approaches, decisions and the delivery of Therapeutic Recreation Services focus on the individual resident.
• Coaching, guiding, and directing interns, students, and volunteers using appropriate education and Masonic Village guidelines and agreements.