Therapeutic Recreation Specialist - Adult Behavioral Health 8 Hamilton

• Conducts initial and ongoing assessments with patients and documentation is timely, complete, legible, concise, and related to the identified needs of the patients.

• Conducts thorough initial assessments within time frame indicated in department- specific policy

• Documentation is legible, concise, and clinically appropriate

• Demonstrates awareness of appropriate assessment tools/techniques and their application

• Conducts ongoing assessments as appropriate

• Input on care path is timely, legible, concise, and clinically appropriate.

• Progress notes relate to patient needs/problems identified in the care path

• Progress notes reflect staff intervention as well as patient response (effectiveness of intervention) utilizing DAIR format.

• Progress notes are timely and meet the frequency as stipulated in the department specific policies.

• Provides therapeutic services for patients.

• Individual or group activities occur on time and as scheduled

• Services are individualized to the needs/functional abilities of the current patients

• Services provided are targeted to the needs identified in the patients' care paths

• Services provided are evidence based reflecting current and accepted techniques and are of high quality

• Seeks clinical supervision when appropriate

• Makes appropriate referrals for ancillary/supportive services.

• Takes all necessary precautions and risk management steps to protect patients' safety at all times.

• Group facilitation skills reflect understanding of group dynamics as well as dynamics of individual diseases/disorders.

• Assures that therapeutic activity therapy supplies are available to meet patient needs.

• Demonstrates knowledge of developmental levels as well as age-appropriate activities.

• Designs and implements community re-integration activities.

• Uses CPI methods when dealing with agitated, aggressive patients

• Actively participates actively in the multidisciplinary team approach to care.

• Participates in team staff meetings* participates in multidisciplinary staff meeting

• Documents plan of care-on-care path

• Communicates timely and appropriately with other members of the treatment team regarding the patients' progress

• Advocates for needs of patients

• Uses informal opportunities to collaborate with other disciplines

• Uses creativity and knowledge of disease and recovery, in planning care for patients

• Serves on interdisciplinary committees as requested by Nurse Manager.

• Participates in quality improvement activities

• Identifies areas for improvement related to Therapeutic Activity Services (TAS) role in the care of patients

• Participates in data collection for quality improvement purposes

• Participates in development and implementation of action plans for quality improvement

• Demonstrates initiative in the improvement of TAS services

• Demonstrates initiative in his/her professional growth

Provides restorative, rehabilitative, and recreational services to patients on the following areas: behavior health (inpatient and partial hospitalization), rehabilitation unit and skilled nursing unit; consultative and prn services provided to pediatrics.