Art/Drama/Dance/Music/Recreation Therapist

About the role

Provides comprehensive rehabilitation therapy assessment and treatment interventions for adult psychiatric inpatients in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. Plans, develops, and implements individual and group therapy sessions for adult inpatients.

Responsibilities

• Conducts group and individual therapy with patients
• Maintains accurate and up-to-date charting
• Maintains supplies and organizes inventory
• Supports community and donor relations
• Supervises interns and volunteers
• Provides patient and/or family education regarding independent living skills
• Provides specialized clinical groups and interventions including music, drama, art therapy as well as dual diagnosis/substance abuse, pain management
• Completes formal assessments of functional life skills (KELS)
• Develops and implements behavioral plans for individual patients
• Plans and implements special events and programming for significant religious, national and/or cultural holidays
• Plans, develops for referral to outdoor groups
• Organizes and leads movement and physical activities
• Documents in a timely manner pt. assessment, treatment plans and progress notes
• Coordinates, develops, implements and evaluates the Rehabilitations Services Clinical Training Programs as LPPHC (Music Therapy Internship)
• Recruits, selects, and supervises Rehabilitation Services interns and evaluates their performances
• Provides clinical supervision to assigned interns and students
• Participates in Rehabilitation Services adult inpatient and/or partial hospitalization program staff meetings
• Maintains program inventory and orders supplies and/or equipment for service
• Maintains facilities for assigned rehabilitations services areas
• Attends, develops and/or presents at lectures, conferences and workshops on specialized clinical topics
• Provides required professional leave documents
• Keeps current with the profession by meeting continuing education requirements for certification registration and/or licensure
• Participates in the planning, coordinating, implementing and reporting results of Rehab services involvement PHP or Rehabilitation Services research studies as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree required (as per requirements of the profession)
• Board Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC), Board Certified (or certification eligible) Art Therapist (ATR-BC), Registered (or registration eligible) Drama Therapist (RDT), Board Certified (or certification eligible) Dance Movement Therapist (BC-DMT), Registered (or registration eligible) Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT), Certified Recreation Therapy Specialist (CTRS)
• Experience working with adults in individual and group-based interventions in psychiatric treatment of at least two years in duration (one year of experience if internship completed within the hiring department)
• Demonstrates skills, knowledge, and ability in developmentally and age/population appropriate interventions
• Demonstrates ability to assess individual patients’ developmental level, general medical condition, psych-social needs, and capabilities
• Provides patients with opportunities for expressing their individual thoughts and feelings and provide support as part of patients’ therapeutic support system
• Demonstrates compassion and understanding in order to build a relationship of rapport and trust with patients and their families
• Ability to communicate pertinent information and concerns, and coordinate goals with medical staff for optimum health outcomes
• Demonstrates ability to plan and facilitate therapy groups
• Demonstrates skills in oral and written communication that will allow preparation of medical record documentation, oral presentation, and conference presentations
• Experience working with people who have acute/severe mental illness
• Experience providing evidence-based treatments to psychiatrically acute patients in similar clinical setting
• Experience in mentoring and supervision
• Experience in program development