Recreational Therapist

About This Role

This role involves establishing and implementing individualized treatment programs to help patients develop, maintain, and express an appropriate leisure lifestyle. The work focuses on patients recovering from major physical, emotional, or chemical dependency issues.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a 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
• Coordinate the performance of subjective and objective initial and ongoing evaluations of patients according to diagnosis, past history, and physician referral
• Assure the definition of realistic goals for rehabilitation following assessment of specific problems
• Communicate treatment recommendations based on recreation assessment to the treatment team and identify treatment intervention strategies to facilitate treatment planning
• Facilitate 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

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Recreational Therapy from an accredited institution (degree will be verified)
• TRS licensure in the State of Utah

Nice to have:

• Current National Certification in Therapeutic Recreation
• Basic Life Support Certification
• Annual MANDT competency training
• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate equipment and materials with precision and accuracy, including frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, and art material use
• Need to walk and push up to 50 pounds of supplies and equipment on rolling cart

Benefits

• Generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged

Important Details

• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 24

About the Company

At Intermountain Health, the company uses the artificial intelligence ("AI") platform, HiredScore to improve the job application experience. HiredScore helps match skills and experiences to the best jobs. While HiredScore assists in reviewing applications, all final decisions are made by Intermountain personnel to ensure fairness. The company protects privacy and follows strict data protection rules, ensuring information is safe and used only for recruitment.