Recreational Therapist- Recidivism Reduction Initiative Program - Chicago, United States - McDermott Center

Description

Recreational therapists plan, direct, and coordinate recreation-based medical treatment to help maintain or improve patients' physical, social, and emotional well-being.

Essential Functions:

• Facilitate didactic and therapeutic groups with focus on Marriage and Family development and document for each patient in attendance.
• Encourage patients to express their thoughts and emotions openly to identify actions that activate anger or scenarios where high emotions are common.
• Teach patients about those things that activate anger reactions and educate them on how to avoid high emotions are common.
• Provide clinical treatment planning, treatment referral, and continued care/aftercare planning to assign patients and document same in the patient charts.
• Maintain assigned patient charts in a manner which meets Haymarket Center's Quality Assurance standards and is clear in its documentation of patient's progress in treatment.
• Provide crisis intervention as required and follow-up clinical assessment with patient(s) involved to determine need for appropriate clinical course of action.
• Attend patient staffing/inventions and document outcomes in patient chart.
• Meet weekly with supervisor or designee for clinical supervision.
• Seeks further supervision when appropriate and necessary.
• Complete Progress Reports for referral sources and key stakeholders.
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Supervisory Responsibilities:


None


Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.


Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Requirements


Education, Experience, and Skills Required

• Working knowledge of recreational therapy practices, methods, and techniques and opportunities for recreational therapist to collaborate with other health professionals.
• Knowledgeable of Psychological and substance use disorders
• Licensed Clinical Professional required; LCSW, Psy.

D preferred

• Have strong documentation skills; this position requires extensive documentation of required activities, strong data entry skills are also required