What are the responsibilities and job description for the Activity Therapist position at UHS?
Activity Therapist
Prairie St. John's, a 132-bed psychiatric care facility located in Fargo, North Dakota, has been providing services for children, adolescents, and adults to address behavioral health and substance use challenges since 1997. Prairie offers inpatient hospitalization, day treatment, and intensive outpatient services. Accredited by The Joint Commission, we are the largest, freestanding behavioral health facility in the region. More than 4000 patients receive care from our compassionate health care team each year at Prairie St. John's.
This position is on-site, Monday-Friday, 20 hours a week between the hours of 8-4:30pm. Occasional evening hours, weekends and holidays required.
Benefits include:
- Challenging and rewarding work environment
- Work directly with patients to provide support and hope.
- Flexible scheduling for employees in school
Job Duties:
- Planning and coordinating client-centered, interactive activities for patient groups based upon assessed patient needs; recognizing instability cues and providing de-escalating interventions if needed.
- Assessments are performed and documented thoroughly and in a timely manner
- Participates in interdisciplinary team treatment planning and review process; addresses relevant issues related to discharge with patient and team; communicates with treatment team regarding patient treatment, progress and/or concerns.
- Documents assessment, group participation, and in an accurate, timely and complete manner, following established policies and procedures.
Qualifications
Activity Therapist Job Requirements:
- Licensure as a OTR or CTRS in North Dakota or related field or equivalent related work experience.
- Must possess the ability to plan and implement Activity therapy groups.
- Critical thinking and problem-solving skills; able to react quickly and calmly as part of a team to handle volatile and potentially emergency situations; make effective decisions while in stressful situations and circumstances; and after training, be able to manage disruptive and explosive patients; smoothly and rapidly shift between dissimilar tasks
- Communicate thoroughly and accurately in a professional manner both verbally and in writing. Exceptional interpersonal communication skills are expected.
- Successful employees demonstrate a pleasant upbeat demeanor and a positive attitude.
- Able to use Microsoft Office products
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.
