Wexford Health is proud to offer a competitive benefits package including:
Annual pay increase
40 Paid Days Off Per Year
Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
401(k) plan with 50% match
Company-paid short-term disability
Healthcare and dependent care spending account
POSITION SUMMARY
Under the direct supervision of the designated Wexford Health Manager and the Clinical supervision from the Mental Health Supervisor. Provide offenders with treatment services to restore, remediate, or rehabilitate in order to improve functioning and independence as well as reduce or eliminate the effect of illness or disability. Activity therapists will provide recreation resources and opportunities in order to improve offender health and well-being. Treatment services include assessment of the offender, interpretation of assessment results, making therapeutic intervention recommendations, developing and implementing treatment or habilitation program, observing, evaluating, and reporting offenders reaction to treatment/habilitation program and recommendation continuation or change, and developing work plans and procedures with higher level mental health staff or mental health supervisor.
DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
Plan, develop, and apply therapeutic interventions based on clinical techniques and procedures related to recreational therapy, music therapy, art therapy, dance therapy and drama therapy.
Identify interest and evaluate needs to develop recreational interventions to treat offenders with mental illness or development disability based on professional knowledge, skills and abilities.
Participate in treatment/habilitation team meetings with pertinent personal such as mental health professionals, physicians, nurses, counselors, and educators regarding offender treatment and programming.
Participate in the preparation of or prepare documentation relating to a offenders treatment or habilitation plan and participate in the preparation of regular, annual, quarterly, and special reports of activity therapy services.
Provide professional direction to other staff and volunteers
Develop and conduct recreational programs designed for either group or individual participation, collect and analyze data to evaluate progress towards objectives: develop recommendations for the treatment/habilitation team as to the offender continuation or change in specific programs.
Conduct recreational therapy that meets the needs of the offender served , participate in the development of facility wide therapy programs.
Participate in in-service education
Utilizes referral process to appropriate health care providers as necessary
Communicates information to ancillary departments using established referral process
