Activities Therapist
Company: UNC Health Care
Location: Butner
Posted on: April 23, 2024
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Job Description:
Job Description
Description Become part of an inclusive organization with over
40,000 diverse employees, whose mission is to improve the health
and well-being of the unique communities we serve. Youth Behavioral
Health Hospital (YBH) is a 56-bed, 24-hour, locked psychiatric
facility located in Butner, North Carolina. There will be four
units dedicated to serving children and adolescent with mental
health diagnoses, dual diagnosis, substance misuse and complex
behaviors. YBH philosophy is grounded in a milieu-based,
trauma-informed and therapeutic setting. This facility aims to
serve patients with a complex history, including aggression and
psychosis. Safety is the key component of the care provided as well
as introduction of positive coping skills, healthy living and
positive leisure activities. Therapy services will work among a
large interdisciplinary team including Psychiatrists,
Psychologists, Social Workers, and Nursing Services. We are seeking
an Activities Therapist with child and adolescent mental health
experience to work on a multidisciplinary therapy team.
Summary:
The Activities Therapist plans, organizes, develops, and directs
quality activities for patients, ensuring that the recreational,
physical, intellectual, spiritual, and social needs of each patient
are met in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations, and
Life Care standards. Activities Therapists work as members of a
multidisciplinary treatment team. May organize and conduct music,
art, recreation, or other therapy programs, depending on
specialty.
Responsibilities:
1. Must perform proficiently in all competency areas including but
not limited to: general activities duties,, supervisory
responsibilities, care plan and documentation responsibilities,
patient rights, and safety and sanitation principles and techniques
of therapy as applies in an acute care psychiatric facility
2. Must demonstrate understanding of basic medical and psychiatric
terminology as well as basic regulations governing the treatment of
people in psychiatric health facilities.
3. Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing while
appropriately and descriptively charting patient progress and
behavior. Maintain detailed records of activity programs and
participation of individual residents, identifying progress toward
established care plan goals.
4. Adapt treatment programs by graduating tasks to meet patient's
level of function
5. Develop, organize, and implement a program of adjunctive therapy
activities to meet the social, emotional, physical and other
therapeutic needs of patients as identified on the patients' plan
of care and within the specified budget.
6. Must be able to make regular in-room visits to patients
uninterested or unable to participate in group activities
7. Must exhibit excellent customer service and a positive attitude
towards patients. Coordinate and verify that assistance is provided
to residents for activities and events as necessary. Create an
ongoing calendar of activities, which creatively meets multiple
needs and is accessible and appealing to both men and women of all
ages and abilities.
Other InformationOther information:
Education Requirements:
* Bachelor's Degree in human services field required
Licensure/Certification Requirements:
* No licensure or certification required.
Professional Experience Requirements:
* No experience is required
Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:
* A variety of individual and group facilitation techniques*
Demonstrated proficiency in arts/crafts/music is preferred*
Knowledge of one or more therapeutic activity area such as
recreation/occupational/music/art therapy; individual and group
behavior and effective ways of working with clients; knowledge of
the general nature of physical or mental illnesses/disabilities
and/or developmental disabilities;* Ability to apply and adapt
skills and knowledge of activity areas to planned sessions of
therapeutic activities; Ability to foster interest, initiative,
responsibility, and experimentation in clients and discourage
inappropriate responses;* Experience facilitating therapeutic
groups.* Familiarity working with forensic and/or psychiatric
consumers preferred.
Job DetailsLegal Employer: STATEEntity: UNC Medical Center
Organization Unit: UNCH YBH Recreational Therapy Work Type: Full
Time
Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00Salary Range: $19.11 - $27.16 per
hour (Hiring Range)
Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity
Work Assignment Type: OnsiteWork Schedule: VariableLocation of Job:
Butner:NC:27509Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No
This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their
race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,
national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.UNC
Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and
employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants
and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are
invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email if you need
a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career
opportunity.
Keywords: UNC Health Care, Durham , Activities Therapist, Healthcare , Butner, North Carolina
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