Recreational Therapist (CTRS) - Inpatient Behavioral Health

Overview

Come work with a great team at the Nation's Capital! 

Signet Health, manages the Behavioral Health Services for MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC.  We are currently hiring for an experienced Recreational Therapist (CTRS) for our full-time position. We also need a part-time or PRN CTRS.

This person will design and implement a variety of activity therapies focusing on individualized needs with the specific objective of fostering effective interactions, to enhance coping skills and cognitive functioning, reality orientation and prioritizing independence in caring for self.   

Primary Responsibilities: 

Participates in interdisciplinary treatment planning, when necessary.

Participates in agency-wide training programs and in-services.

Assists with the adherence that the programming schedules are being conducted as required.      

Provides quality and timely clinical documentation, per Joint Commission and other regulatory agencies’ requirements.

Other duties as needed.

Requirements/Qualifications

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree; DC license in Recreation Therapy

Two years' experience in adult behavioral health preferred 

Proficiency in interpersonal communication and interdisciplinary teamwork

Experience and skill in providing leisure activities to patients with various types and presentations of psychiatric/behavioral health disorders

Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs

 

Salary Range: 

$56,852 to $69,000 Annually

EOE

Hospital/Program Description

For more than a half a century, MedStar Washington Hospital Center has set the highest standard for health care—and reached and surpassed it year after year.

 

MedStar Washington Hospital Center is a not-for-profit, 926-bed academic medical center in the center of the nation’s capital—and every day, hundreds of people in the region depend on us for their care. In 2013 alone, the hospital opened its door for nearly 500,000 inpatient and outpatient visits by residents from throughout the Mid-Atlantic.

 

We are the busiest and largest hospital in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding area—and serve as referral center and the central hub for the region’s most advanced acute medical care.

 

But we are much more. Our primary and secondary health services help our community’s residents get and stay healthy, and help to improve patients’ quality of life by managing chronic illness.

 

Our inpatient services, education and research programs, outpatient care and community outreach initiatives are all aimed at meeting today’s health care needs—and at leading the way to meet the future health needs of the nation.