Recreation Therapist

Job Description:

The Recreational Therapist establishes and implements treatment programs individually designed to facilitate the development, maintenance, and expression of an appropriate leisure lifestyle for patients who have had a major physical, emotional or chemical dependency issues.

Job Details

Location: Primary Children's at Wasatch Canyons - Salt Lake City, Utah

Entry Rate: $22.46 depending on experience

Shift Details: PRN 0 hours scheduled - As needed

Benefits Eligible: No

Job Essentials

Maintains safe, consistent, and supportive environment by providing care in accordance with the multi-disciplinary treatment team, treatment plan and programs to meet patient care needs.

Coordinates the performance of subjective and objective initial and ongoing evaluations of patient's according to diagnosis, past history and physician referral.

Assures the definition of realistic goals for rehabilitation following assessment of specific problems.

Communicates treatment recommendations based on recreation assessment to the treatment team and identifies treatment intervention strategies to facilitate treatment planning.

Facilitates the assessment and re-assessment of the patient's physical and/or emotional problems and needs for recreational therapy as determined by history and results of evaluation procedures.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors Degree in Recreational Therapy from an accredited institution (degree will be verified).

Current TRS licensure in the State of Utah.

Preferred Qualifications

Current National Certification in Therapeutic Recreation.

Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.

Annual MANDT competency training.

Physical Requirements:

Climbing, hearing/listening, lifting, manual dexterity, pulling/pushing, seeing, sitting, speaking, squatting/kneeling, walking, standing.

Location:

Primary Childrens at Wasatch Canyons

Work City:

Salt Lake City

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

0

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$22.46 - $34.67

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We intentionally work toward an Intermountain Healthcare that reflects our diverse communities and provides culturally competent care, health equity, and a sense of belonging amongst all our caregivers (employees). This is an important part of fulfilling our mission to help people live the healthiest lives possible. The three pillars of our work are talent experience with Intermountain (application, internship, development, etc.), community benefit, and care delivery.

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