Local Contract Recreation/Recreational Therapist - $40 per hour

About the role

The Recreational Therapy (RT) Section of the Rehabilitation Medicine Department (RMD) provides clinical and research services to support initiatives in the Clinical Center. Services include clinical evaluation and treatment of biomedical research patients and independent and/or collaborative research with institutes to identify and contribute to the understanding of functional outcomes related to natural history or drug efficacy trials.

Responsibilities

• Assessment of ongoing needs, implementation of a treatment plan, evaluation, clinical care program development, and collaboration with institute principal investigators to determine the role of recreational therapy concerning the NIH patient populations.
• Patient evaluation/treatment/and discharge planning to effectively identify patients' strengths and continued challenges related to their overall health and well-being.
• Select and use of outcome measures to document functional outcomes of clinical care or collaborative institute research.
• Effective team collaboration in interdisciplinary meetings.
• Collaborative Research Program Development and Implementation.

Requirements

• Have a minimum of 3 years of documented recent clinical experience in the treatment of medically complex patients in a hospital setting.
• Active NCTRC certification.
• Possess current CPR certification.

Qualifications

Not specified.

Skills

Not specified.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$40.00 per hour.

Schedule

Monday through Friday, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm. No weekends or holidays.