Recreation Therapist
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Key details
- Location
- Derwood, MD, United States
- Work style
- Onsite
- Level
- Mid level
- Function
- Healthcare
- Focus area
- other
- Posted
- 1w ago
Skills
About the role
Description
Posterity Group LLC is a veteran owned, service-disabled small business, headquartered in Rockville, MD, that specializes in federal government contracting and staffing. We are cultivating a WARP Multidisciplinary Clinic and looking to staff Recreation Therapists to provide their services to veterans in our Rockville, MD headquarters. The Recreation Therapist is expected to perform the following:
Essential responsibilities
- Assess leisure interests, functional capacity, social participation and barriers to recreation.
- Develop individualized recreation-therapy plans.
- Conduct adaptive sports, wellness, arts, gaming, community-outing and social-skills activities.
- Support emotional regulation, confidence, motivation and social connection.
- Facilitate Veteran, pediatric, family and community-reintegration groups.
- Adapt equipment and activities for mobility, sensory, cognitive or behavioral needs.
- Coordinate with PT, OT, behavioral health, ABA and peer support.
- Identify accessible community recreation resources.
- Measure participation, quality-of-life and community-integration outcomes.
- Maintain activity-safety plans, equipment and emergency procedures.
- Support discharge planning through sustainable community leisure routines.
Requirements
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in therapeutic recreation or closely related field meeting professional eligibility requirements.
- Current Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist credential.
- Current BLS certification.
- Valid driver’s license when transporting or accompanying patients in community programming.
The CTRS credential requires applicable education and professional experience plus the NCTRC examination. NCTRC credential overview
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with adaptive sports, Veterans, autism, behavioral health or neurological rehabilitation.
- Aquatic-therapy or community-integration experience.
- Specialty designation in behavioral health, developmental disabilities, geriatrics or physical medicine.
Performance indicators
- Participation and attendance.
- Improvement in community-integration and quality-of-life measures.
- Patient engagement and retention.
- Successful linkage to community activities.
- Safety performance.
- Interdisciplinary goal attainment.
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