Art Therapist - Inpatient Behavioral Health

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Natchaug Hospital is Eastern Connecticut’s leading provider for children, adolescents and adults with mental illness and substance abuse addictions. We offer a variety of programs including inpatient and outpatient behavioral health, residential treatment for court-involved teenage girls, geriatric services, clinical day treatment schools and chemical dependency services. Through our multi-site network of care, we constantly strive to meet its mission in helping people find their way while educating and empowering individuals to participate in their own care and recovery.

Job Summary

Experienced Art Therapist provides inpatient functional assessments to patients across the lifespan and facilitates individual and group clinical programming utilizing an art therapy framework in collaboration with the multidisciplinary treatment team. 

Direct patient care:

• Conducts a functional assessment in relation to the patient’s reason for admission to support making recommendations of group topics, general safety, milieu engagement, and transition planning. 

• Plans, organizes and implements individual and group treatment activities using a variety of best practice art therapy techniques and interventions in alignments with the multidisciplinary treatment team plan.

   

• Provides enhanced individual support (1 on 1) to patients identified by the clinical team under the guidance of the department supervisor.

• Maintains timely patient-centered documentation that reflects the patient and client systems’ pertinent information for assessment, interventions, and outcomes in accordance with regulatory licensing requirements and third-party agencies.

• Complete clinical and art therapy-related programming under the supervision of the department supervisor

   

   

Clinical excellence:

• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to