Recreation Therapist PRN

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About the Role

The Recreational Therapist establishes and implements treatment programs individually designed to facilitate the development, maintenance, and expression of an appropriate leisure lifestyle for patients who have had a major physical, emotional, or chemical dependency issue.

FTE: PRN

Responsibilities

• Maintains a safe, consistent, and supportive environment by providing care in accordance with the multi-disciplinary treatment team, treatment plan, and programs to meet patient care needs.
• Coordinates the performance of subjective and objective initial and ongoing evaluations of patients according to diagnosis, past history, and physician referral.
• Assures the definition of realistic goals for rehabilitation following assessment of specific problems.
• Communicates treatment recommendations based on recreation assessment to the treatment team and identifies treatment intervention strategies to facilitate treatment planning.
• Facilitates the assessment and re-assessment of the patient's physical and/or emotional problems and needs for recreational therapy as determined by history and results of evaluation procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Recreational Therapy from an accredited institution (degree will be verified).
• TRS licensure in the State of Utah.

Preferred Qualifications

• Current National Certification in Therapeutic Recreation.
• Basic Life Support Certification.
• Annual MANDT competency training.

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, and identify equipment and supplies.
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require verbal communication as well as hearing and understanding spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate equipment and materials with precision and accuracy, including frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, and art material use.
• Need to walk and push up to 50 pounds of supplies and equipment on a rolling cart.

Schedule

Day shift, Monday - Friday.

Pay

The hourly range for this position is $26.74 - $41.28. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

Location

• Primary Children's at Lehi
• Primary Children's at Taylorsville

Work City: Salt Lake City
Work State: Utah