Recreation Therapist
1 week ago
Recreation Therapist position available at Nova Scotia Health, providing therapeutic interventions to clients and their families to achieve optimal functioning and health.
Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through collaboration. Our team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services, including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions.
About the OpportunityThe Recreation Therapist will provide a diverse range of interventions to clients and their families, utilizing therapeutic intervention comprised of treatment, leisure education, and recreation participation to promote physical, cognitive, emotional, and social functioning. The successful candidate will work with outpatient day treatment programming consistent with the day hospital model and be involved in quality improvement and evaluation activities to support continuous improvements in the provision of Therapeutic Recreation Services.
The Recreation Therapist will act in a professional and ethical manner, following all guidelines relevant to clinical practice and profession, and convey respect and a solid understanding of subtle and complex diversity and inclusion as they relate to specific groups.
About You- Baccalaureate degree in Recreation or Leisure Studies with an emphasis in Therapeutic Recreation
- Certified as a Therapeutic Recreation Specialist with NCTRC
- Experience in working with various populations/disability groups preferred
- Knowledge of leisure/recreation assessments
- Knowledge of leisure education and leisure counseling processes
- Knowledge of various health conditions and their impact on health and well-being
- Effective counseling and verbal/written communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to set priorities and work independently
- Demonstrated ability to establish and promote good interpersonal relationships
- Demonstrated ability to select suitable activities
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
- Permanent Full Time position; 75 Hours Bi-Weekly
$42.01 Hourly
Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package, which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage, as well as a defined benefit pension plan.
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