Are you an enthusiastic, self-motivated, and creative person looking for a career with advancement opportunities? The Department of Corrections, State Correctional Institution at Rockview is searching for a Therapeutic Activities Worker to join our team of professionals. Through implementing therapeutic activities for inmates, you will play a key role in our mission to reduce criminal behavior by providing individualized treatment and education to offenders, resulting in successful community reintegration through accountability and positive change. Do not miss out on this opportunity, apply now and discover the exciting prospects that await you!
As a Therapeutic Activities Worker, you will perform professional work in developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating therapeutic activities programs to improve, enhance, and retain participants' highest levels of personal, psychosocial, and physical functioning and habilitation. You will collaborate with multi-disciplinary treatment teams for the purpose of developing the therapeutic segments of individual treatment plans including activities that overlap or combine various aspects of therapeutic recreation, occupational therapy, or vocational adjustment services.
Work duties involve performing assessments of functioning levels, strengths, and needs to develop specific goals and objectives for individuals; developing and selecting therapeutic activities to meet those needs; conducting, overseeing, and monitoring the delivery of activities in individual and group settings; conducting ongoing reviews and evaluations of individual needs and progress toward achieving program goals; and adapting therapeutic activities as needed. Work may also include training, supervising, or directing activities aides, other non-professional employees, and volunteers in the facilitation and conduct of individual and group activities. These duties are performed independently under general supervision and are reviewed through observation, conferences, and reports for quality and achievement of therapeutic activities program goals.
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