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ACTIVITY THERAPIST

UHS
UHS Salary
DOVER, DE Per Diem
POSTED ON 4/25/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/24/2026
Responsibilities

Dover Behavioral Health System is a 104-bed, acute care psychiatric hospital located in the beautiful Dover, Delaware area. Dover Behavioral Health System features individual units for adolescents and adults and offers inpatient acute care, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient programs. On average, over 10,000 patients receive care from our compassionate health care team each year at Dover Behavioral Health System. This opportunity offers working at a hospital known for its outstanding patient satisfaction, including ranking 6thfor highest patient satisfaction in 2020 compared to over 200 psychiatric hospitals. We attribute this success to our talented and dedicated staff. We are the best at what we do!

 

We are seeking candidates for our Activity Therapist opening to Deliver high quality life skills and leisure activity programs for patients based on appropriate developmental, social, and emotional stages of each patient.

 

Essential Job Duties:

  • Develop and deliver therapeutic programs for patients and make treatment recommendations that are individualized to circumstances and needs of each patient in conjunction with interdisciplinary treatment team
  • Effectively contribute to the discharge planning of patients
  • Collaborate with clinical management on scheduling activity therapy sessions based on patient and hospital needs
  • Will oversee and monitor Activity therapy patient care programs and treatment outcomes
  • Provide individual and/or group evaluation in treatment sessions

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in a Recreational Therapy or related field
  • Experience in clinical interviewing and knowledge of the concept and philosophy of Activity Therapy in the treatment process

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master'sdegree in a Recreational Therapy or related field
  • One year experience in a psychiatric or substance abuse facility

Benefits:

  • Tuition Assistance
  • Loan Forgiveness
  • Orientation (Could earn 20 CEUs) * Career development opportunities across UHS and its 300 locations
  • Diverse programming to expand your experience and energize your career HealthStream online learning catalogue with plenty of free CEU courses
  • Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off
  • Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans
  • 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
  • SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program

 

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation’s largest and most respected hospital companies, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Steadily growing from a startup to an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation (for the past 17 years), UHS today operates more than 400 acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities and ambulatory centers across the U.S., Puerto Rico and the U.K. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has more than 90,000 employees.

Unwavering passion, superior talent, and focused determination are the keys to being UHS. Our corporate and healthcare facility team members bring these qualities to each and every encounter—with our patients and each other—in contributing to the delivery of high-quality care

 

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

 

Notice

At UHS and all subsidiaries, our Human Resources departments and recruiters are here to help prospective candidates with matching skillset and experience with the best possible career at UHS and our subsidiaries. We take pride in creating a highly efficient and best in class candidate experience. During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (Social Security Number, credit card or bank information, etc.) from you via email. The recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail etc. If you feel suspicious of a job posting or job-related email, let us know by contacting us at: https://uhs.alertline.com or 1-800-852-3449

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