Certified Recreational Therapist- Mental Health Recovery Center

Division:Eskenazi Health  

Sub-Division: SEMHC  

Req ID:  25931 

 

Schedule: Full Time 

Shift: Days 

 

Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center, Indiana's first community mental health center, provides comprehensive care for emotional and behavioral problems, including severe mental illness and substance abuse. The Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center offers both inpatient and outpatient services, including several outreach centers as well as clinic- and community-based services.

 

 

FLSA Status

Nonexempt

Job Role Summary

The Certified Recreational Therapist (“CRT”) provides rehabilitation services for clients of Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center (“SEMHC”).  The CRT assesses and assists clients with improving functional levels to facilitate clients’ community integration. The CRT provides individualized assessments, care planning, and therapeutic interventions to restore, remediate, or rehabilitate physical, cognitive, emotional or social functioning to clients who have psychiatric and other co-occurring conditions.  In collaboration with clinical leadership, the CRT identifies and implements recreational therapy needs. 

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Proactively contributes to Eskenazi Health’s mission: Advocate, Care, Teach and Serve with special emphasis on the vulnerable population of Marion County; models Eskenazi Health’s values of Professionalism, Respect, Innovation, Development and Excellence
• Embraces, understands, and operates under the Recovery Model, including AIDET (Acknowledge, Introduce, Duration, Explanation, Thank You) and the spirit of motivational interviewing
• Endorses and models a strengths-based, community centered model of care
• Selects appropriate instruments/batteries, uses systematic assessment procedures (including structured interview, direct observation, performance testing, information from others, and/or record review), and interprets assessment findings to generate age-, diagnostic-, and culturally-appropriate baseline data that identifies the client's strengths and limitations in physical, cognitive, social, emotional functioning as well as behavioral functioning and interests in recreational skills and leisure time management
• Collaborates with the client and their personal supports as well as the multi-disciplinary treatment team to develop the individualized recreational therapy care plan
• Provides direct individual and group therapeutic recreational interventions
• In collaboration with clinical leadership, the CRT identifies and implements recreational therapy needs  Develops and implements evidence-based therapeutic recreation programs tailored to the specific needs and preferences of clients, ensuring person-centered care, integrating recreation therapy into comprehensive care plans that maintain consistency with the overall multi-disciplinary client treatment program
• Completes all required documentation accurately and timely
• Formulates clinical impressions and recommendations for treatment, referral for other services, or no service at all
• Evaluates client progress and satisfaction resulting from the treatment interventions provided and modifies or discontinues the treatment interventions as needed based upon client progress, achievement of functional outcome goals, lack of progress, or change in condition
• Develops a recreational therapy discharge plan and summary, in collaboration with the client, and their personal supports as well as the multi-disciplinary treatment team
• Stays current with trends and advancements in therapeutic recreation, incorporating best practices into program development
• Meets agency requirements for continuing education
• Outpatient Programs: Actively prepares for and participates in facilitation of the annual consumer art show

Job Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited university with a bachelor’s degree in Therapeutic Recreation required; Master’s degree in Therapeutic Recreation preferred
• Certification as a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist
• Minimum of one (1) year of full-time professional experience in the delivery of rehabilitative services in a similar psychiatric setting preferred
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) certification

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

 

Knowledge

• Intermediate knowledge of behavioral health, substance use disorders and/or co-occurring disorders
• Intermediate knowledge of medical terminology
• Advanced knowledge of client rights and responsib