Join Cleveland Clinic and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital is a proud Magnet Hospital awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the highest honor an organization can receive for professional nursing practice. On our team, you will provide stellar patient care, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a meaningful career at one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.
As a Recreational Therapist, you will assist patients with developing and enhancing social, cognitive, physical and emotional skills. Your efforts will focus on implementing treatment plans that best serve and meet the needs of patients of various ages, health backgrounds and demographics. In this role, you will interac t with both adult and geriatric patients in group therapy settings, including those managing substance misuse , schizophrenia, and mood disorders. Your ability to provide compassionate, person-centered support can leave a lasting positive impact on your community every day.
A caregiver in this position works days from 8:00AM 4:30PM, with the availability to work one weekend per month.
A caregiver who excels in this role will:
Plan, conduct, direct, and coordinate patients needs through innovative and evidence-based therapeutic programming and activities in group and individual settings.
Coordinate interdisciplinary programming on the units and participate in the team conferences to review patient progress.
Train other caregivers in provision of therapeutic programming and activities, including nursing caregivers.
Complete assessments for functional and rehabilitative needs that may include activities of daily living, community living skills, social, leisure and vocational skills within 24 hours of admission.
Educate patients, family and other caregivers in skills and resources applicable for discharge plan .
Effectively and efficiently plan and utilize programming budget, including care and maintenance of equipment.
Participate in continuing professional education, departmental teaching and meetings, including hospital and enterprise safety programs identifying risks to patient safety and reducing healthcare errors.
Provide relevant in-service training sessions for caregivers.
Create treatment plans that meet patients needs and interests and educate patients in social skills needed to become or remain independent.
Record and analyze a patients progress .
E valuate interventions for effectiveness through quality monitoring and improvement processes .
Develop and create new applications, ideas, systems or products.
Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
Bachelors Degree in Recreational Therapy
Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS) through the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification
Basic Life Support (BLS) Healthcare Provider within 90 days of hire
WELLE (Crisis Intervention) training within 90 days of hire and annually thereafter
Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
Masters Degree
Experience in healthcare and/or behavioral health setting
Knowledge of therapeutic processes, growth and development, limit-setting, and establishing /maintaining therapeutic relationships and boundaries appropriate to age of patient population served
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Physical Requirements:
Ability to maintain balance despite sudden load, in order to support person from falling during gait.
Ability to lift and reach with arms sufficiently to lift a person's arms or legs during exercise programs.
Requires the ability to sit and be stationary for prolonged periods of time, normal or corrected vision and manual dexterity sufficient to perform work on a personal computer.
Requires the ability to travel throughout the hospital system and function in a stressful environment.
Personal Protective Equipment:
Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our tobacco free and drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substance and nicotine. All offers of employment are follwed by testing for controlled substances and nicotine. All new caregivers must clear a nicotine test within their 90-day new hire period. Candidates for employment who are impacted by Cleveland Clinic Health System's Smoking Policy will be permitted to reapply for open positions after one year.
Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.
Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.
Please review the Equal Employment Opportunity poster .
Cleveland Clinic Health System is pleased to be an equal employment employer: Women / Minorities / Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities
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