Creative Arts Therapist- Level ll

NYC Health + Hospitals; New York (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NYC Health + Hospitals Metropolitan seeks a Creative Arts Therapist to join its department, delivering therapy through art, music, drama, dance, and poetry to support patient recovery and well-being. You will assess patients, develop goals, and collaborate with the care team to implement individualized plans.

You will document progress, participate in QA/PI activities, and contribute to training for volunteers and students, all while upholding NYSED standards.

Qualifications

• Valid NYS License or Limited Permit to practice as a Creative Arts Therapist; Limited Permit requires licensure within two years.
• Assignment Level II requires NYSED license and two years of full-time professional experience in creative arts therapy.
• Assignment Level III requires one additional year of experience beyond Level II.

Responsibilities

• Establishes and implements comprehensive therapeutic group/individual therapy programs using creative arts therapy.
• Conducts individual assessments of patient strengths and weaknesses to evaluate social, cognitive, psychological and physical functioning via creative arts therapy.
• Develops treatment goals based on assessments to improve functioning through creative arts modalities.
• Implements interventions using art, music, drama, dance or poetry to facilitate patient goals.
• Participates as a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team and contributes to treatment plans.
• Writes regular progress notes and maintains patient records and reports.
• Prepares supplies and maintains inventories of equipment and supplies.
• May coordinate and supervise auxiliary staff in related therapeutic disciplines.
• May instruct and supervise volunteers, interns and students in creative arts therapy.

Skills

Creative Arts Therapy

Assessment & Evaluation

Treatment Planning

Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Documentation & QA/PI

Education

New York State licensed Creative Arts Therapist (or eligible)

Two years of full-time professional experience in creative arts therapy

Assignment Level III: one additional year of experience

Job description

Marketing Statement

NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan is the community hospital of choice for residents of East Harlem, northern Manhattan, and neighboring communities. The hospital provides culturally-sensitive care in a welcoming and hospitable setting, emphasizing primary care medicine and utilizing the latest advances in medical science. Metropolitan delivers high quality health services with compassion, dignity, and respect to all, without exception. Since its founding in 1875, the hospital has been affiliated with New York Medical College, representing the oldest partnership between a hospital and a private medical school in the United States. Metropolitan is a part of the NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest municipal hospital and health care system in the country.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Duties & Responsibilities

Purpose of Position

This class of positions encompasses professional and/or supervisory work of varying degrees of difficulty in the operation of a creative arts therapy department providing therapeutic services through the utilization of various modalities, principles and techniques specific to the creative arts therapy discipline. All personnel perform related work.

Under direction, with broad latitude for independent judgment and decision making, performs difficult and responsible professional work in the creative arts therapy discipline.

Examples Of Typical Tasks

• Establishes and implements comprehensive therapeutic group/individual therapy programs utilizing principles and practices of creative arts therapy.
• Conducts individual assessments of patient’s strengths and weaknesses to evaluate social, cognitive, psychological and physical functioning through the creative arts process.
• Develops treatment goals and objectives based on initial and ongoing assessments designed to improve functioning through the utilization of the techniques unique to the creative arts therapy discipline.
• Implements therapeutic interventions utilizing art, music, drama, dance or poetry as a modality to facilitate the patient’s attainment of goals articulated in the patient treatment plans.
• Participates as an active member of the interdisciplinary treatment team by attending meetings and contributing to the formulation of individual patient comprehensive treatment plans.
• Writes regular progress notes on patient’s behavior and responses to treatment goals.
• Prepares and maintains records, progress reports, statistical information and participates in departmental and facility-wide quality assurance/performance improvement (QA/PI) activities.
• Prepares supply requisitions and maintains inventories of equipment and supplies as designated.
• May be assigned to coordinate and supervise the activities of auxiliary staff in related therapeutic disciplines.
• May be assigned to instruct and supervise volunteers, interns and students in the areas of creative arts therapy.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Duties

• Serves as a professional resource to Creative Arts Therapists in the development and implementation of specialized treatment interventions utilizing non-verbal, diagnostic and expressive techniques.
• Provides consultation for complex cases in the evaluation of social, cognitive, psychological and physical functioning through the creative arts therapy process.
• Monitors, documents and evaluates the attainment of creative arts therapy goals as part of the therapeutic process.
• May represent the department at conferences, workshops, hospital or community functions; reports actions and findings to department.
• May develop and conduct departmental training programs to introduce new developments and techniques within the creative arts therapy discipline.
• May be assigned to function as a primary therapist, as long as practicing within the boundaries of professional competency, as specified in the New York State Education Law, Article 163, Section 8407.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Assignment Level I

A valid License or Limited Permit issued by the New York State Education Department to practice as a Creative Arts Therapist. Employees working with a Limited Permit must obtain Licensure within two years from their date of appointment.

Assignment Level II

• A valid License issued by the New York State Education Department to practice as a Creative Arts Therapist; and
• Two years of full-time, paid, professional experience in creative arts therapy.

Assignment Level III

In addition to meeting the requirements for Assignment Levels II, Assignment Level III

Requires

• One additional year of experience.