Therapeutic Recreation Aid 4-10's

Conducts comprehensive recreational therapy services for psychiatric patients, leading and executing planned therapeutic recreation sessions, and maintaining accurate documentation.

Requirements

• Explains the benefits and orients patients to the therapeutic recreation program
• Leads and executes planned therapeutic recreation sessions
• Completes documentation accurately and timely
• Maintains observation of patients and shares appropriate information with charge nurse, supervisor and other co-workers
• Maintains cleaning logs for multipurpose rooms, supplies and equipment
• Receives a thorough report from nursing staff before taking patients to off unit group activities and before providing on unit therapeutic recreation sessions
• Attends and participates in Recreation department meetings and may be asked to work on committees or teams
• Works with the multidisciplinary treatment team to develop and implement individualized therapeutic recreation interventions
• Performs non-patient duties between responsibilities
• Maintains supplies and keeps inventory, ordering from central supply and kitchen
• Keeps aware and helps enforce hospital and departmental policies and procedures
• May assist in orientation of new employees

Benefits

• Life insurance
• Retirement plan
• Paid time off