Job Summary

Coordinates management of creative arts and recreation therapy program, including leading staff, volunteers, and interns, program development initiatives, and donor relations. Provides comprehensive creative arts and recreation therapy assessment and treatment interventions for patients, involving families as appropriate for the target population. Plans, develops, and implements individual and group therapy sessions for patients across the life spectrum. For children, adolescent, and young adult patients, also involves families in therapy sessions. Primary responsibilities include: program development and scheduling, conducting assessments and group and individual therapy with patients; maintaining accurate and up-to-date charting, data, and statistics; organizing and ordering supplies/equipment/inventory within allotted budget; supporting community and donor relations; overseeing service coordination with external resources; leading quality improvement initiatives; and leading clinical and administrative supervision of interns and creative arts and recreation therapy volunteers.

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UCSF Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and Clinics (LPPHC) consists of an adult inpatient unit, an adult partial hospitalization program, an adult intensive outpatient program, and adult/child outpatient services accounting for nearly 48,000 visits per year.Required Qualifications
* Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree required (as per requirements of the profession).
* Certification or Registration in field of expertise or certification/registration eligible (see Required Licenses/Certifications).
* Experience working with adults in individual and group-based interventions in psychiatric treatment of at least two years in duration (one year of experience if internship completed within the hiring department)
* Demonstrates skills, knowledge, and ability in developmentally and age/population appropriate interventions.
* Demonstrates ability to assess individual patients' developmental level, general medical condition, psych-social needs, and capabilities.
* Provides patients with opportunities for expressing their individual thoughts and feelings and provide support as part of patients' therapeutic support system.
* Demonstrates compassion and understanding in order to build a relationship of rapport and trust with patients and their families.
* Ability to communicate pertinent information and concerns, and coordinate goals with medical staff for optimum health outcomes.
* Demonstrates ability to plan and facilitate therapy groups.
* Demonstrates skills in oral and written communication that will allow preparation of medical record documentation, oral presentation, and conference presentations.
* This position requires flexibility to orient and work at all UCSF Medical Center locations.

Rec therapist 3 requires all the above plus the following:
* Experience working with adults in individual and group-based intervention in psychiatric treatment of at least five years in duration.
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience working with people who have acute/severe mental illness.
* Experience providing evidence-based treatments to psychiatrically acute patients in similar clinical setting.

Rec therapist 3 preferred qualifications include all the above plus the following:
* Experience in mentoring and supervision
* Experience in program development
License/Certification
Certification/registration eligible applies to Rec therapist 2
Certification or registration is required for Rec therapist 3

* Board Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC)
* Board Certified (or certification eligible) Art Therapist (ATR-BC)
* Registered (or registration eligible) Drama Therapist (RDT)
* Board Certified (or certification eligible) Dance Movement Therapist (BC-DMT)
* Registered (or registration eligible) Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT)
* Certified Recreation Therapy Specialist (CTRS)

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