Activities Therapist

Location

Olathe, KS | United States

Job description

Cottonwood Springs Hosptial Activities Therapist

Members of our team Enjoy:

• Working with a highly engaged staff
• Healthy staffing levels
• Flexible scheduling
• Career growth
• Competitive compensation

• UKG Wallet – We’ve partnered with UKG Wallet, a voluntary Earned Wage Access benefit, to offer employees access to their pay on their own schedule.

Cottonwood Springs is a 72-bed behavioral hospital located in Olathe, KS . The hospital offers inpatient and outpatient mental health and addiction treatment to adults, adolescents and their families. At

Cottonwood Springs, we are dedicated to Changing People’s Lives®

As an Activities   Therapist, you will be a member of the clinical services team at Cottonwood Springs. Our team drives a “Clinical First” attitude to help fulfill our mission of “ Changing People’s Lives®”. Our Activities Therapists utilize an approve recreation program to assist patients in developing interpersonal relationships to further develop confidence needed to participate in-group activities. Our patient centric approach delivers superior outcomes for our patients.

• Develop a plan of care with specific and measurable goals, objectives, and interventions defining actions unique to each patient’s needs.
• Contribute to treatment planning with feedback to nursing and program staff to achieve therapeutic interventions.
• Provides direction to nursing staff regarding activity related groups.
• Attends to all treatment teams with input into patient’s Activity Therapy goals.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institute in Recreational, Music or Art Therapy or similar field
• CPR and CPI Certification within 30 day of employment
• Previous experience in a psychiatric health care facility, with direct experience working with chemical dependency, dual diagnosis, psychiatric and geriatric patients preferred.

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