Rehabilitation Specialist: PT 7a-7p Weekend Only

Position Highlights:

• Work/life: Two 12-hour shifts scheduled every weekend (24 hours), although paid for 32 hours! 
• Employee-centric: Tuition reimbursement, loan forgiveness, comprehensive major medical, dental and vision insurance, paid time off, 401(k), health and wellness offerings, monthly employee events, and more. 
• Lifestyle: Sandusky was voted “Best Coastal Small Town in America”. You will have the opportunity to enjoy living and working in this growing area along the beautiful shores of Lake Erie.

About Firelands Health:

Our goal at Firelands Health is to be the best & preferred independent healthcare employer for the Sandusky Bay region.

Firelands Health is the area’s largest and most comprehensive resource for quality medical care. We are “big enough to care for you, and small enough to care about you”. We are locally managed and governed as a not-for-profit healthcare facility, serving the counties of Erie, Ottawa, Sandusky, and Huron, covering a regional service area with over 300,000 residents. Our mission is to provide excellent healthcare, promote community wellness, and improve the lives we serve.

Our Core ACE Values:  Attitude: We choose to be positive and inclusive every day. Commitment: We are committed to exceed the expectations of those we serve. Enthusiasm: We will work passionately to make a difference.

What You Will Do:

• The Rehabilitation Specialist shares the responsibility for planning and coordinating the rehabilitative activities program for the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit based on patient and unit needs and in collaboration with other team members.
• Rehabilitation services/activities include structured activities designed to help a patient develop or maintain functional living skills including physical, social and creative skills through participation in activities of daily living, vocational, recreational, social, expressive, or other activities designed to promote patient recovery, resiliency and independence in both the hospital and community setting.
• Acknowledges physician orders to evaluate and provide rehabilitative services/activities to assist the patient in achieving the goals listed on his/her treatment plan.
• Documents activities to related goals on patient Treatment Plan. Shares observations regarding ongoing identification of patient’s needs and makes recommendations to the treatment team and subsequent reviews/revisions of treatment plan in compliance with departmental policy.
• Offers information in individual and group formats that reflect the patient’s needs, interests, limitations and capabilities. Provides programming to improve skills including – social, daily living, symptom management, self-care, wellness, crisis management, drug/alcohol problems, dual diagnosis issues, vocational rehabilitation, etc. Incorporates best practices into development of programs/services. 
• Orients patients to the activity program and the expected outcomes of participation.
• Makes a concerted effort/rounding to encourage patient participation in activities therapies.
• Provides group and individual services as appropriate to the needs of persons served. Services are provided during business hours as well evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed.
• Individual services may be provided to persons who need additional intervention to help learn and/or improve skills daily living i.e. crisis management planning, anger management, etc.
• Takes responsibility for engaging and educating the patients about the benefits of participating in these services. Utilizes other members of the patient’s treatment to help promote participation when necessary.
• Conveys a belief in the recovery process and instills hope in those served and their natural support persons.
• Participates in the coordination of special events consistent with patient need and interest. Ensures that routine weekend rehabilitative services/activities are organized and able to be provided by other staff.
• Routinely relays patient’s progress, needs, or other pertinent information to other treatment team members.
• Regularly demonstrates the ability to serve patients of all ages in the routine performance of duties including the provision of activity services for adolescents when admitted on the unit.
• Therapists will work a schedule dictated by patient need and approved by unit management which includes some evenings and weekends.

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university.
• Experience working with persons who have mental health and/or drug/alcohol problems is preferred.
• Must be currently certified in CPR and re-certified every two years.
• Ability to move, transfer, and assist patients.