About this role
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Job Posting Title
Recreational Therapist - CTRS
Location
Dallas - Hospital
Additional Posting Details
Monday - Friday, 8:30am - 5:00pm. Approx. 25-30 hours per week.
Temp position November 2026 through May 1, 2027.
Job Description
Duties/Responsibilities
- Performs interview and assessment of patient’s leisure functioning and leisure related needs.
- Establishes appropriate leisure related goals based on assessment findings and determines interventions by which these goals are achieved.
- Records clinical treatment notes in EMR and prepares progress reports for oral presentation to treatment team members.
- Provides therapeutic recreation services offered to patients at Scottish Rite.
- Monitors use and condition of recreational equipment as well as TR related areas. Reports need for repair or replacement of supplies, equipment, and facilities.
- Participates as a member of an interdisciplinary treatment team, attends rounds, patient care conferences, and meetings with families as assigned.
- Works collaboratively with other SRC departments.
- Serve as liaison with at least 1 community agency that promotes access/inclusion for patients served by SRC.
- Attends assigned SRC camps.
- Make recommendations for personal and/or departmental performance improvement.
- Comply with all hospital and departmental policies and procedures.
- Maintains professional certification(s).
Required Skills/Abilities
- Bachelor's degree in Recreation and Leisure with an emphasis in Therapeutic Recreation.
- Current certification by the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification (NCTRC) at the professional level of Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS).
- Current CPR.
- Current drivers license with eligibility to drive hospital vehicles.
Working Environment
- Working Conditions: Inside & Outside
- Working Position: Sitting, Standing, and Walking
- Physical Demands: Medium
- Physical Requirements: Lifting/Carrying, Pushing/Pulling, Climbing, Balancing, Stoopling/Kneeling/Bending, and Repetitive Movements
- Lifting or carrying between 35 - 50 lbs.
- Sensory/Communicative activities essential to the performance of this position: Feeling, Hearing, Seeing, and Speaking
- This position will be exposed to Inside/Outside Environments and Bloodborne Pathogens