Recreational Therapist - 24 Hours/Week - Days

Why work for Nebraska Methodist Health System?
At Nebraska Methodist Health System, we focus on providing exceptional care to the communities we serve and people we employ. We call it The Meaning of Care – a culture that has and will continue to set us apart. It’s helping families grow by making each delivery special, conveying a difficult diagnosis with a compassionate touch, going above and beyond for a patient’s needs, or giving a high five when a patient beats a disease or conquers a personal health challenge. We offer competitive pay, excellent benefits and a great work environment where all employees are valued! Most importantly, our employees are part of a team that makes a real difference in the communities we live and work in.

Provides appropriate care specific to the age of the customer/patient, to ensure understanding and comfortable level of treatment, as outlined in the Age Specific Criteria.

• Demonstrates ability to identify opportunities for and give individualized customer service/patient care according to customer/patient needs.

Provides patient focused treatments to achieve maximum functional improvement.

• Evaluates the patients rehabilitation and functional needs.
• Sets goals, and implements treatment plan components established through these findings.

Meets patients' recreational therapy needs.

• Delivers, and when appropriate delegates to other health care team members, therapy services to the patient based on the patient's assessed needs, physician orders, and patient preferences.

Contributes to the interdisciplinary care plan.

• Documents evaluations.
• Sets and revises goals.
• Evaluates and documents progress.
• Participates in patient conferences.

Maintains positive relationships with patients and families/significant others, to ensure patient satisfaction.

• Effective interpersonal communication.
• Involvement of patient and family in treatment goal planning.
• Achievement of desired outcomes.

Supports the patient care team and contributes to the delivery of patient focused care.

• Exchanges information and coordination of treatment plan components.
• Develops and maintains cooperative working relationships with physicians and other health care team members.

Contributes to quality improvement.

• Assists in the development of new clinical programs.
• Evaluates and revises clinical care processes.

Contributes to the delivery of high quality services.

• Maintains knowledge of current treatment practices by reading appropriate books and journals, giving presentations, and attending approved seminars and conferences.

Mon, Tues, Thurs 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

• Baccalaureate degree in Recreational Therapy required.
• Satisfactory completion of annual mandatory education requirements.

• Must have 9 to 12 months clinical experience in acute or long-term care setting.

• National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification (CTRS) required.
• Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) strongly preferred at time of hire, required within 3 months of hire.

• Ability to evaluate, treat, and develop treatment plan components for physically, cognitively and/or mentally impaired adolescent, adult and geriatric populations.

• Medium Work - Exerting up to 50 pounds of force.

• Occasionally Performed (1%-33%):
  • Climbing
  • Crawling
  • Crouching
  • Keyboarding/typing
  • Kneeling
  • Sitting
• Frequently Performed (34%-66%):
  • Balancing
  • Carrying
  • Distinguish colors
  • Fingering/Touching
  • Grasping
  • Lifting
  • Pulling/Pushing
  • Reaching
  • Repetitive Motions
  • Speaking/talking
  • Standing
  • Stooping/bending
  • Twisting
  • Walking
• Constantly Performed (67%-100%):
  • Hearing
  • Sitting

• Not Related:
  • Equipment/Machinery/Tools
  • Explosives (pressurized gas)
  • Electrical Shock/Static
  • Radiation Alpha, Beta and Gamma (particles such as X-ray, Cat Scan, Gamma Knife, etc)
  • Radiation Non-Ionizing (Ultraviolet, visible light, infrared and microwaves that causes injuries to tissue or thermal or photochemical means)
• Rare (1-33%):
  • Chemical agents (Toxic, Corrosive, Flammable, Latex)
  • Mechanical moving parts/vibrations
• Occasionally (34%-66%):
  • Biological agents (primary air born and blood born viruses) (Jobs with Patient contact) (BBF)
  • Physical hazards (noise, temperature, lighting, wet floors, outdoors, sharps) (more than ordinary office environment)

About Methodist:

Nebraska Methodist Health System is made up of four hospitals in Nebraska and southwest Iowa, more than 30 clinic locations, a nursing and allied health college, and a medical supply distributorship and central laundry facility. From the day Methodist Hospital was chartered in 1891, service to our communities has been a top priority. Financial assistance, health education, outreach to our diverse communities and populations, and other community benefit activities have always been central to our mission.

Nebraska Methodist Health System is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by Federal, state or local law.