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Location:
Orange Park, FL 32073
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Industry:
Healthcare - Health Services
Sector:
Healthcare
Recruitment Sales
Experience:
Not Specified
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Description
Recreational Therapist PRN
Description
The Recreational Therapist assesses, plans, implements and evaluates treatment of psychiatric patients in inpatient, partial hospital, and outpatient settings. The Recreational Therapist works within a multi-disciplinary treatment team to assure patients receive education and practice behaviors that support appropriate use of leisure time.
Position Responsibilities:
- Demonstrates uncompromising ethics and personal integrity by adhering to the highest standards of ethical behavioral.
- Demonstrates dignity and respect by not perpetrating rumors that adversely affect customer relations and work place moral. Shares information regarding concerns only with appropriate people.
- Demonstrates team spirit and initiative to improve the quality of the decision-making process.
- Takes initiative to assist other staff in completion of their assignments, as needed.
- Accepts reassignment and additional duties, when necessary, in a flexible and positive manner.
- Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care, based on physical, psycho/social, educational, safety and related criteria, appropriate to the age of patients served in his/her assigned service area.
- Demonstrates competency in interpretation of patient's self-reported behavior related to age of the patient.
- Understands the cognitive, physiologic, and psychological growth and maturational development of the patient as it relates to his/her age.
Requirements
Qualifications
Department Specific Criteria:
- Clinical skills and practice congruent with accepted best practice standards of care
- Demonstrates professionalism by appearance, actions, self-development, and guest relations
- Uses interpersonal skills, which convey a positive and supportive attitude
- Demonstrates flexibility with schedule changes or changing job assignments to meet patient care needs.
- Excellent language and communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with demonstration of a team approach to work.
- Able to handle high stress situations.
- Demonstrates advance practice in assessment and clinical skills and ability to plan and facilitate therapy groups.
- Four Year/Bachelor's Degree required, Master's Degree preferred.
-One to Three years of social work experience required.
-BLS (Basic Life Support) for Healthcare Provider Certification required (American Heart Association)
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