ACTIVITY AIDE/COORDINATOR

Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health System; Radcliff (KY); Sur place; USD 32 000 - 52 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Challenging work environment

Growth opportunities

Medical plan

401k with company match

Paid time off

Sign-on bonus

Free meals on shifts

Career development

Résumé du poste

Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health System in Kentucky seeks an Activity Aide/Coordinator to support the activity therapy team. You will plan, schedule, and implement life skills and leisure programs for patients, tailored to developmental and emotional needs under the Director of Activity Therapy.

Responsibilities include completing admission assessments within 72 hours, setting goals on the master treatment plan, maintaining areas, and organizing weekly activity groups.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Recreational Therapy or related field preferred.

Responsabilités

• Assesses each patient within 72 hours of admission using the activity therapy assessment form and documents progress notes.
• Develops goals on the master treatment plan ensuring goals are meaningful to the patient and understood.
• Share responsibility for cleanliness, orderliness, and inventory of all activity therapy areas.
• Plans and implements a variety of activity therapy groups weekly as required.
• Excellent judgment and clinical skills are essential for this position.

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Recreational Therapy or related field

Description du poste

Responsibilities

Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health System is a 140-bed hospital offering inpatient services for adolescents, adults, military, veterans and first responders.

Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health System has a spacious cafeteria, gymnasium, art/activity room, group rooms, classrooms and other areas to create a pleasant atmosphere for patients and their families. Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health System’s quality services are provided by psychiatrists, licensed therapists, certified alcohol and drug counselors, activity therapists and teachers. Also, care is given by registered nurses 24 hours a day. Since 1986, Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health System has been a proven psychiatric care provider in mental health and substance use.

Website: https://www.lincolnbehavioral.com

The Activity Aide/Coordinator is a key member of the Lincoln Trail Behavioral Health System Activity therapy team. The Activity Aide/Coordinator is responsible for planning, scheduling, and implementing life skills and leisure activity programs for the patients based on appropriate developmental, social, and emotional stages of each patient under the direction of the Director of Activity Therapy. The Activity Aide/Coordinator plans activities to meet the specific needs of the patient population including patient with physical limitations.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

• Assesses each patient, within 72 hours of admission, using the activity therapy assessment form and provides documentation of such in the progress notes.
• Develops goals on the master treatment plan of each patient, ensuring that the goals are meaningful to the patient and that the patient understands the purpose.
• Share responsibility for the cleanliness, orderliness, and inventory of all activity therapy areas.
• Plans and implements a variety of activity therapy groups weekly as specific programs require.
• Excellent judgment and clinical skills are essential for this position.

Benefit & Rewards Highlight - (PRN employees are not eligible for some benefits)

This opportunity provides the following:

• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• growth and development opportunities
• competitive compensation
• medical, dental, vision and prescription drug plan
• 401k with company match and discounted stock plan
• generous paid time off
• Retention and Sign on Bonus
• Employee free meals during shifts
• Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ Subsidiaries!
• More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website: benefits.uhsguest.com

About Universal Health Services

Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) is one of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services. Since our founding in 1979, UHS has grown steadily into a premier Fortune 500 corporation perennially recognized by multiple esteemed national rating entities. Through its subsidiaries, UHS operates inpatient acute care facilities, inpatient behavioral health facilities, outpatient and other facilities, nationwide virtual behavioral health services, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services with physical locations in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Ireland and United Kingdom. www.uhs.com.

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Qualifications

Job Requirements:

• Prefer Bachelor's degree in Recreational Therapy or related field.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands as described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear, and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to sit and climb or balance.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to adjust focus.

EEO Statement

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