ACTIVITIES THERAPIST, Full Time Days
Job Description
Responsibilities
When it comes to choosing a hospital, one thing is clear : quality and convenience count. Northern Nevada Medical Center's tradition of providing quality healthcare in a comfortable, accessible environment means peace of mind for the thousands of patients served by the hospital each year.
Northern Nevada Medical Center is a -bed acute care hospital located on hillside acres at 5 E. Prater Way in Sparks, Nevada.
What we at Northern Nevada Medical Center value :
- Compassion : We treat everyone with kindness and warmth because we genuinely care about every patient, employee and physician like they are family.
- Empathy : We put ourselves in our patient’s shoes and deliver clinical care with a personalized touch.
- Teamwork : We foster a caring and friendly work environment to bring the best possible outcomes in our patient’s lives.
- Quality : We strive to provide excellence in clinical care.
- Ethics : We conduct our business with the highest ethical and moral standards.
- Respect : We promise to honor the dignity, individuality and rights of everyone.
- Service Excellence : We provide personalized and professional service that exceeds the expectations of those we serve.
- Innovation : We continually invest in technology and process improvements to develop new and better ways of delivering clinical care.
This Activity Therapist opportunity is full time at hour per week, offers full benefits and a convenient day shift schedule.
This dynamic individual will provide direction of the activity therapy programs and staff. Oversees general recreation activities.
Maintains participation in the multidisciplinary team. Supervises and / or administers all activity therapy programming, from assessment, treatment planning, implementation, evaluation, to discharge planning.
Job Duties / Responsibilities :
Orient new Activity Therapy staff to all departmental policies, procedures and expectations.
Ensures that Activity Therapy is in compliance with State and regulatory agencies.
Trains new Activity Therapy staff in use of recreational, therapeutic, and teambuilding equipment.
Is able to interpret assessment and develop measurable goals and objectives.
Benefits for full and part time employees :
- Challenging and rewarding work environment
- Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off
- Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans
K) with company match and discounted stock plan
- Tuition Reimbursement / Repayment Program
- Career development opportunities within UHS and its + Subsidiaries!
- More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website : benefits.uhsguest.com
About Universal Health Services :
Qualifications
- Degree from an accredited university in Recreation Therapy or related field. Must be a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist with the NCTRC.
- CPR Certified.
- Minimum of one year experience working in a psychiatric facility.