REQUIREMENTS: RECREATIONAL THERAPIST

• Twelve (12) continuous months of experience within the last three (3) years rendering direct patient care in public or private institution. Clinical competencies must be current
• Valid Photo ID Driver’s License or Passport (Required)
• Possess current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from an American Heart Association
• NATIONAL or CA Recreational Therapist Certificate

• Communicate changes in patient’s condition to Director of Recreational Therapy and interdisciplinary treatment team.
• Provide pertinent feedback to the interdisciplinary treatment team regarding patient response to therapy, treatment interventions, and therapeutic objectives, as appropriate and necessary.
• Provides assessment in psychosocial/leisure and recreation skills development/deficiency.
• Ensure timely documentation of interventions and ensure interventions are based on the patient’s plan of care.
• Teach coping skills and stress management techniques to patients and display a balance leisure lifestyle.
• Utilize advanced knowledge of counseling and therapeutic concepts and methods for determining therapeutic services for psychiatric, traumatic, and chemically dependent patients.
• Demonstrate knowledge of group dynamics as well as therapy and practice of group processing.