Rehabilitation Therapist - F​/C - Music

rehabilitation therapist - f/c - music -

the florida department of children and families (dcf) is the state of florida's social services agency. The agency oversees services for child safety, fostering, adoption, domestic violence, adult protective services, refugees, homelessness, mental health, substance abuse, childcare providers, human trafficking and public assistance. The agency's mission is to work in partnership with local communities to protect the vulnerable, promote strong and economically self-sufficient families, and advance personal and family recovery and resiliency.

Within dcf, the substance abuse and mental health (samh) program office is recognized as the single state authority for substance abuse and mental health services. The office of samh is statutorily responsible for the planning, evaluation, and implementation of a comprehensive statewide system of care for the prevention, treatment, and recovery of children and adults with serious mental illnesses or substance use disorders.

Florida state hospital (fsh) is a mental health treatment facility owned and operated by the state of florida and is part of the department of children and families. The department's mission is to "work in partnership with local communities to protect the vulnerable, promote strong and economically self-sufficient families, and advance personal and family recovery and resiliency."

florida state hospital is a tobacco free facility. To be considered for this position responses to the qualifying questions are required and must be verifiable based on your submitted application.

this is a highly responsible and professional position serving as the rehabilitation therapist - music within the rehabilitation services. The ideal candidate will be a collaborative team player who works seamlessly across all sections within the program office. This role requires the use of independent judgment, a proactive approach to responsibilities, and exceptional attention to detail. If you are driven, organized, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, we encourage you to apply.

specific duties and responsibilities include:

• duties of this position require the incumbent to be knowledgeable of and utilize the principles of total quality management.
• this is a dayshift position, with working hours of 8:00am-4:30pm mon-fri. The position is located in bldg. 1260 treatment mall. However, this position may provide in-unit services within various residential services program areas.
• this is a music therapy-specific rehabilitation therapist position responsible to the rehab therapy supervisor-ses for the music therapy dept. Based in bldg. 1260.
• this is skilled professional work involved in planning and providing direct resident services through a variety of therapeutic activities in a large mental health treatment facility.
• work involves evaluating programmatic and therapeutic needs, planning appropriate therapeutic services, implementing direct resident services through scheduled sessions, and ongoing evaluation of services delivered.
• a primary role for this position is to provide music therapy services using evidence-based curricula such as illness management and recovery or wellness recovery groups as well as enrichment services in order to promote person-centered recovery for individuals served.
• conducts interviews and assessments, performs record reviews and consults with recovery team members to identify resident service needs (strengths, needs, abilities and preferences).
• provides direct resident services including, but not limited to illness management and recovery, wellness recovery, relapse prevention, substance abuse treatment, anger management, stress management, competency restoration/court education, psychiatric rehabilitation (developing a trusting relationship with residents, assisting residents in choosing desired roles and acquiring skills and supports needed for goal achievement), and enrichment (services aimed at increasing knowledge, skills, and abilities for improving overall quality of life and promoting successful community integration).
• documents progress and resident reactions/perspective of individual progress…