Recreation Therapist 2

Job Description Recreation Therapist 2.

• Part-Time / 34 hours per week
• Day Shifts

Harborview Rehab Therapy has an outstanding opportunity for a Recreation Therapist 2.

• Part-Time / 34 hours per week
• Day Shifts

• Provide therapeutic recreational services to patients with complex conditions or injuries in a specialty service such as burns, brain injury, pain, and mental health.
• Under general direction, assess, plan, develop, and implement therapeutic recreation services for patients with complex physical and/or mental disabilities.
• Direct the work of and evaluate recreation therapy students and/or volunteers.
• Successful candidates must have knowledge of: skeletal, muscular, and neuron-anatomy; mental illness; principles, materials, and equipment of recreation therapy; various methods of provision in the physical, affective, social and cognitive realms; safety and risk management methods; assessment and evaluation reporting methods and the ability to assess, plan, provide, evaluate and modify programs/provisions to allow inclusive participation for individual patients; cooperative skills in working with patients;
  
  establish and maintain professional and working relationships with physicians and other treatment providers as well as other staff; instruct staff in areas of need regarding recreation therapy.

• Perform complex assessments of patients in a specialty service; plans, organizes and implements therapeutic recreation plan of care to meet individual patient needs; implements intervention techniques to bring about specific behavioral change or improvement in patients
• Facilitate improvement of social, cognitive, emotional and physical functional abilities
• Instruct the patient in adapting to the recreational and community environment
• Organize and lead recreational therapy activities both in and outside of the hospital environment
• Confer with the interdisciplinary team, individual patients, and family members to develop and recommend patients' therapeutic recreational program
• Direct, train and coordinate the work of recreation therapy students and/or volunteers in therapeutic recreational procedures such as patient assessment and community integration; provides feedback to students on progress and completes evaluation for educational program

Graduation from an accredited Therapeutic Recreation Program AND 18 months of professional therapeutic recreation experience OR equivalent education/experience.

As the region's only Level I Trauma and verified burn center, Harborview Medical Center is a comprehensive healthcare facility owned by King County and operated by UW Medicine. It is dedicated to providing specialized care for a broad spectrum of patients from throughout the Pacific Northwest, including the most vulnerable residents of King County. It provides exemplary patient care in leading-edge centers of emphasis, including emergency medicine, trauma and burn care, neurosciences, ophthalmology, vascular surgery, HIV/AIDS, rehabilitation, mental health and substance abuse care.

Harborview employees are committed to the vital role the institution plays in the immediate community, as well as the entire Northwest region.

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