Per Diem Creative Arts Therapist

About the role

Number of Positions In Requisition

1

Job Details

The Creative Arts Therapist is responsible for providing creative art therapies (art, music, or dance) to best serve the needs of the patient. The Creative Arts Therapist will collaborate with other allied health specialists such as Physical or Occupational Therapists to plan, implement, and evaluate counseling and treatment interventions.

Job Duties

• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.(Do not delete, move or over-write this statement)
• Plan, direct, deliver, and evaluate music/art/dance-movement and horticulture therapy based interventions for a full patient caseload in skilled facility, acute rehab, outpatient settings as appropriate.
• Designs music/art/dance/horticulture sessions or programs in consultation with clients or site administrators to meet client's goals and objectives. Gathers client information from sources such as case documentation, client observation, or interviews of client or family members.
• Assesses client needs or disorders using artistic and horticultural processes. Analyzes or synthesizes client data to draw conclusions or make recommendations for art, music, dance movement, horticultural therapy. Selects or prepares artistic media or related equipment or devices to accomplish therapy session objectives.
• Confers with other professionals on client's treatment team to develop, coordinate, or integrate treatment plans.
• Documents patient’s participation and reactions during creative arts and horticultural therapy and evaluates therapeutic effects.
• Continues research in developments in creative arts therapies and horticultural therapy via conferences and other staff development opportunities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s Degree Art Therapy: in creative therapy or counseling
• Bachelor’s Degree Music Therapy: BS or higher in Music Therapy by an AMTA approved college or university (academic coursework, 1200 hours of clinical training, and a supervised internship). May have Graduate degrees in Music Therapy focus on advanced clinical practice and research.
• Bachelor’s Degree Horticultural Therapy: Horticultural Therapist-Registered (HTR)-bachelor's degree in horticultural therapy and 480-hour internship to professionally registered with the American Horticultural Therapy Association (AHTA).
• Master’s Degree Dance Therapy: R-DMT Registered Dance/Movement Therapist. Requires a Master’s degree from an accredited program and achievement professional requirements.
• Less than 1 year 0-2 years of clinical practice
• 1 year preferred.
• ATR - Registered Art Therapist - Art Therapy Credentials Board
• MT-BC - Music Therapist-Board Certified - Certification Board for Music Therapists
• BLS - Basic Life Support AHA - American Heart Association

Additional Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal skills with an emphasis on developing and maintaining the therapeutic relationship.

Physical Demands

Lift and carry 40-50 lbs. Examples: Push/pull patients on bed, stretcher (requires 29 lbs. push force), lateral transfers up to 50 lbs. of the patient's weight. Frequent to continuous standing/walking. Patient transporters can walk 8-10 miles per shift. *Patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling, bending, squatting and performing CPR.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts.

Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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