Activity Therapy Specialist 2 - 20081534

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What You'll Do:

• Plans, organizes, conducts and ensures implementation of clinical adjunctive

• therapy program/services for inmates assigned to residential treatment units

• Directs and monitors all aspects of psychiatric patient day-to-day activities

• Promotes self-care and physical and mental well-being

• Provides direction and assistance in the care, treatment and/or programs to inmates

• Carries out inmate or group treatment delineated by the multidisciplinary treatment team

• Promotes activities to inmates on and off the unit to include encouraging interaction and/or involvement

• Monitors and instructs treatment plan programs to inmates in directing the care of personal hygiene and grooming (e.g., bathes, shaves, feeds and/or dresses patients) and

• assists as needed

• Provides clinical lead work/work direction to lower-level activity therapy specialists

• Provides direction to psychiatric inmates in regards to general behavior

• Escorts psychiatric inmates to and from off-unit activities

• Observes and monitors inmate activities and behavior and documents in progress notes on regular basis

• Intervenes during crisis behavior to prevent inmate self-injury or injury to others

• Assists with subduing of violent inmates

• Attends to and monitors inmates

• Recognizes unusual and/or threatening conditions and takes appropriate action.

• Prepares and maintains work related documentation (e.g., records or evaluations of

• individual progress and/or involvement towards established goals of education or

• treatment plan, reports regarding equipment maintenance, completes requisitions

• and/or purchase orders for supplies and equipment, files on patient treatment plans,

• notes of unusual inmate behavior, department log on attendance and participation of

• residents in program, inmate assessment and program proposals written by staff)

• Assists in administering treatments as directed by the treatment/behavior plan

• Facilitates treatment with appropriate interventions as decided by treatment team

• Conducts one-on-one communication/interaction with inmates to address patient

• concerns and resolve problems

• Leads and participates with inmates in activities, both on and off the unit.

• Participates in interdisciplinary team meetings and collaborates with other members

• of the treatment team

• Reports any problems and/or unusual incidents directly to immediate supervisor as appropriate

• Attends scheduled meetings

• Completes quality assurance monitoring and documentation

• Completes mandatory training and optional in-service programs

• Performs various miscellaneous tasks as needed for contingencies on assigned units

• Assists other departments (e.g., security, psychology) when necessary

42 mos. exp. in activity therapy or recreation or 42 mos. exp. providing work direction to incarcerated persons & training &/or development.

• Or completion of associate degree in recreation or specialty area (e.g., music, art, drama, dance); 24 mos. exp. in activity therapy.
• Or completion of undergraduate core program in recreation or specialty area (e.g., music, art, drama); 18 mos. exp. in activity therapy.
• Or 12 mos. exp. as Activity Therapy Specialist 1, 44213.
• Or equivalent of the Minimum Class Qualifications for Employment Noted Above.

Job Skills: Therapy/Therapeutical Services, Behavioral Health, Basic Documentation, Programming, Professional, Confidentiality, Teamwork, Customer Focus, Decision Making, Emotional Intelligence