Recreation Therapist - Edenbridge Health

Role: Recreational Therapist

Organization: Edenbridge PACE West Baltimore

Location: West Baltimore

Status: Full-time

Mission:  To allow frail elderly people to age in the location of their choosing and continue to lead
connected, meaningful lives
 

The Recreational Therapist role offers a unique opportunity at a new PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) program in West Baltimore within the framework of a supportive, innovative, and expert leadership team and company. Together with our coalition of strong partners within the community, the Recreational Therapist will work closely with the Center Manager and participant care team to carry out our model of care, and have a transformative impact on a particularly under-served community in West Baltimore.

Seven core principles drive our approach to care. These include:  

1. Create and Sustain Meaningful Lives: Our model aims to help elders create and sustain meaningful lives — from social relationships, spirituality, cultural life, work, or service. We support elders with cognitive and physical disability to sustain meaning in their daily lives. We form close community partnerships to help elders engage outside our centers.
2. Respect the Right to Independence:  Edenbridge aims always to follow our participants’ wishes. Wherever possible, participants maintain control over all decisions — from medical procedures to what to eat for dinner.
3. Pay Attention to What Is Working Well:  Our goal is to multiply the days each participant is glad to be alive. We encourage participants’ positive experiences of daily life, supporting the things that matter most to them.
4. Provide the Right Amount of Medical Care:  Elders often have many diagnoses, medications and specialists, involving complex care decisions. We help our participants understand their choices. We deliver thoughtful, appropriate and personalized care, doing what our participants want — nothing more and nothing less.
5. Guide All the Care Provided:  We always follow and guide our participants’ care — in their homes, at our center, in the hospital, and everywhere.
6. Live with Our Communities, Not Just in Them:  We work in communities where aging in place is valued and integrated care is a shared mission. We build deep relationships with community organizations (see video) beginning long before we open our doors. We aim to reach beyond the walls of the center to bring community members in and participants out for person-to-person connection.
7. Employ Technology Thoughtfully, Not Aggressively:  We use technology because it can enrich the lives of participants, improving care and connecting family members with their loved ones and their care providers. But we use technology only to complement — never replace — direct human interaction.

To help us achieve this mission, we are looking for an experienced Recreational Therapist who will develop and implement a comprehensive, outcomes-based recreation therapy program tailored to the goals as outlined in the care plan process that meet the needs of the frail elderly. 
 

Main Responsibilities:

• Leads the Recreation Therapy team in completing initial assessments, formulating the initial care plan, supporting 6 month and annual assessments and daily documentation as assigned by the Day Center Manager
• Consistently monitors the diversity of the participants served and their interests/needs
• Drives the Recreation Therapy Wellness calendar based upon those interests/needs as identified in the initial care plans, assessments and participant feedback
• Ability to provide recreation therapy co-treatments and strategies such as Leisure Education and Leisure Counseling to other program departments
• Provides training and programmatic feedback to Activity Coordinators and Recreation Therapy aides.
• Attends weekly team meetings
• Leads and/or assists in large groups, small groups one-on-ones, and individual activities (exercise, arts and crafts, games, current events, sensory, etc.)
• Assists in the organizing of special events
• Attend staff meetings and participant care planning on a regular basis
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

Edenbridge Health is committed to building a diverse and inclusive organization. For our Recreational Therapist role, we are looking for the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree preferred
• Graduate of a Recreational Therapy program; CTRS or Activity Director certification
• Experience working with a frail or elderly population preferred
• Knowledge of the principles and techniques involved in relating to frail elderly persons required
• Must submit to and pass a pre-employment drug/alcohol screening and criminal background check
• Must have a current Driver’s License and driving record must be in compliance with Company policy. Must maintain current automobile insurance.
• Up-to-date vaccinations, including COVID vaccine, required
   

Learn more at:  

edenbridgehealth.org

Interested candidates please apply by submitting your resume at https://edenbridgehealth.applytojob.com/

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