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 issue.

Essential Functions

• 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.

Skills

• Recreation Therapy

• Behavioral Health Intervention

• Patient Care

• Mutli-disciplinary Teaming

• Facilitation

• Psychoeducation

• Communication

• Intervention Strategies

• Rehabilitation

• Referrals

Occasional weekends and nights are required

Minimum Qualifications

• Current TRS licensure.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Computer Skills, i.e., email, word processing.

Preferred Qualifications

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

• Current National Certification in Therapeutic Recreation.

Physical Requirements:

Physical Requirements

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

Location:

Intermountain Health Logan Regional Hospital

Work City:

Logan

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

20

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

$23.25 - $35.89

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a 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.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here (https://intermountainhealthcare.org/careers/benefits) .

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

All positions subject to close without notice.