Recreation Therapist - LGOH

About the role

This job provides planned therapeutic recreation sessions for patients in the psychiatric units. Participates in treatment team meetings, assesses each patient's recreational needs, plans appropriate interventions, evaluates effectiveness, and documents same. Serves as a role model for a healthy, adaptive lifestyle and participates in treatment of patients with psychiatric and substance abuse diagnoses.

Responsibilities

• Develops, coordinates, and implements a therapeutic recreation program on assigned unit.
• Captures patient assessments, planning, and intervention.
• Evaluates treatment plans.
• Provides patient care with clinical competency.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Requirements

Education: Required - Bachelor's degree in recreational therapy.

Work Experience: Required - None.

PREFERRED: Experience in psychiatry.

Skills and Abilities

• Proficiency in using computers, software, and web-based applications.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills and ability to present information clearly and professionally to varying levels of individuals throughout required job processes.
• Ability to lead exercise activities using proper body mechanics.
• Ability to physically subdue and/or physically restrain patients who are severely agitated or combative.
• Ability to assist with lift/transport of patient.
• Ability to attend occasional outside activities and work extended hours.
• Ability to travel throughout and between facilities.

Benefits

Remains knowledgeable on current federal, state and local laws, accreditation standards or regulatory agency requirements that apply to the assigned area of responsibility and ensures compliance with all such laws, regulations and standards.

Physical and Environmental Demands

Duties performed routinely require exposure to blood, body fluid and tissue.

The incumbent works in a patient care area; works in an area where patients enter; works directly with patients; and/or works with specimens that could contain communicable diseases. There may be an occupational risk for exposure to communicable diseases.

Because the incumbent works within a healthcare setting, there may be occupational risk for exposure to hazardous medications or hazardous waste within the environment through receipt, transport, storage, preparation, dispensing, administration, cleaning and/or disposal of contaminated waste. The risk level of exposure may increase depending on the essential job duties of the role.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Ochsner Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any legally protected class, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Physical Demands

Very Heavy Work - Exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Heavy Work. Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects. Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Sedentary Work. Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible. NOTE: The constant stress and strain of maintaining a production rate pace, especially in an industrial setting, can be and is physically demanding of a worker even though the amount of force exerted is negligible.