Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS) - Inpatient

Job Title: Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist

Primary Location: Mary Free Bed at Covenant

Department: Inpatient Rehabilitation

Weekly Schedule Hours: Monday-Friday (weekend rotation every 3 weeks)

Shift: 8:00a-4:30p

Compensation: $ 20.94

Mary Free Bed Summary

Mission Statement: Restoring hope and freedom through rehabilitation.

Summary:

Responsible for patient evaluation, programming, and documentation. Keeps treatment skills upgraded through continuing education. Provides student supervision and serves as a clinical resource for an area of expertise.

Employment Value Proposition

Age Specific Responsibility

Must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served in assigned department. Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the

patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his or her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures.

Summary

Responsible for patient evaluation, programming, and documentation. Keeps treatment skills upgraded through continuing education. Provides student supervision and serves as a clinical resource for an area of expertise.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Staff will provide patient care, treatment, and services within the scope of their license, certification or registration and as required by law and regulation.

• Provides patient care.

• Evaluates patients' premorbid and current leisure functioning.

• Determines individual goals and objectives, in agreement with patient and/or family.

• Develops, implements, and monitors treatment plan according to the needs of the patient.

• Plans, conducts, and coordinates therapeutic recreation services of the department to address patients' treatment plans and developmental levels with age-appropriate activities. Services mayo include community activities, small and large group programs, morning, afternoon, evening and weekend programs, passive to active activities, individual services, and co-therapy programs. Services are to include families and siblings as appropriate.

• Adapts activities, equipment as necessary.

• Documents patient's status and progress through initial evaluation, progress notes, and discharge summary according to established time standards.

• Communicates with others to integrate therapeutic recreation treatment in optimizing total patient care.

• Participates in conferences/discussions and exchange of written records with other interdisciplinary team members to integrate therapeutic recreation treatment plan.

• Instructs the patient and the family in therapeutic recreation procedures as part of the home program. Provides written instructions as necessary.

• Instructs the visiting public, medical students, physicians, and other professionals in the methods of and objectives in area of expertise

• Attends various meetings as designated.

• Functions as a patient advocate and maintains patient confidentiality.

Customer Service Responsibilities

Demonstrate excellent customer service and standards of behaviors as well as encourages, coaches, and monitors the same in team members. This individual should consistently promote teamwork and direct communication with co-workers and deal discretely and sensitively with confidential information.

Responsibilities in Quality Improvement

Contributes by identifying problems and seeking solutions. Promotes patient/family satisfaction where possible; participates in departmental efforts to monitor and report customer service.

Essential Job Qualifications

• * B.A. in Therapeutic Recreation.

• * Registered with NCTRC as a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist or eligible within one year of employment.

• * Valid Michigan driver's license with no restrictions affecting ability to drive vehicles.

• * Possesses and maintains CPR certification.

• * Possesses and demonstrates expertise in a specific diagnostic area of rehabilitative therapeutic recreation. Can demonstrate leadership and effective communication skills, ability to relate well with people, sensitivity to patients.

• * Demonstrates ability to supervise students.

• * Participates in orientation of new staff.

Physical Requirements for Essential Job Qualification

Levels:

• The ability to frequently sit, stand, walk, bend, kneel, twist, crawl, grasp, reach, and occasionally climb.

• The ability to hear, speak, write, and see (correctable vision).

• The ability to frequently lift up to 75 pounds and occasionally lift in excess of 75 pounds.

• The ability to occasionally push, pull, or carry weight anywhere from 1 to 100+ pounds while assisting patients and moving equipment.

• The ability to exert up to 20-50 pounds of force occasionally, 10-20 pounds of force frequently, and exert up to 10 pounds of force constantly.

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), it is the policy of Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact the Talent Acquisition team at recruitment@maryfreebed.com. Mary Free Bed is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristic.