Recreation Therapist/Music Therapist

Recreation Therapist/ Music Therapist

** Full Time, Monday - Friday **

Masonic Villages of Pennsylvania - Elizabethtown Campus - is immediately hiring a Full Time Day Recreation Therapist/Music Therapist for our Dementia and Memory Care neighborhood.

With over 145 years of providing award-winning care and services across the state of PA, Masonic Villages is driven by our Mission of Love to assist individuals in realizing their potential and enjoying the highest possible quality of life.

Why Choose Masonic Villages:

Each campus is supported by corporate leaders who are fully invested in our Mission of Love and hiring like-minded individuals who are committed to providing heartfelt customer service and contributing to our team environment. When you join our team you can expect:

• Industry-leading benefits that start day one such as $0 cost medical coverage option ***
• Vacation Time/Flex Time and Paid Holidays ***
• Pay on-demand. Access up to $500 of your earned wages in real-time.
• Discounted Grocery gift cards
• Tuition and Educational Reimbursement
• Discounts for onsite Daycare
• Free Gym and Pool Membership ***
• Paid Lunch ***
• Discounted tickets for movies, theme parks, hotels, and MORE!
• Shoe discounts
• Cell phone discounts
• Weekend differentials and additional shift differentials!
• Employer matched Retirement Savings with free financial planning ***
• A commitment to growing our leaders with leadership & mentorship programs available

Key: *** = Full Time & Part Time Regular Staff Only

What You'll Do:

As a Recreation Therapist/Music Therapist, you will carry out our Mission of Love by providing a comprehensive service of therapeutic recreation and music therapy designed to eliminate boredom, helplessness, loneliness, and meet the individual interests of the residents who reside in the Masonic Health Care Center. Assure that the approach and implementation of the service will meet and be in full compliance with state and federal regulations

Our Recreation Therapist/Music Therapist is responsible for the following:

• Demonstrating knowledge of CMS federal and state regulations.
• Demonstrating and displaying the ability to implement the American Therapeutic Recreation Association Standards of Practice for Therapeutic Recreation.
• Demonstrating and displaying the ability to implement the American Music Therapy Association Standards of Clinical Practice.
• Demonstrating knowledge and displaying the ability to develop, implement, and evaluate programming to restore, remediate, rehabilitate or maintain the resident's physical, social, cognitive, emotional and spiritual functioning.
• Providing services ranging from diversional activities, to therapeutic activities and individual therapy sessions; all focused on meeting the residents' needs, recreation and musical interests and preferences.
• Demonstrating knowledge and displaying the ability to conduct an ongoing assessment in an effort to collect systematic, comprehensive, and accurate data to complete the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI), Therapeutic Recreation Assessments and Personal Music Inventory.
• Demonstrating and displaying the ability to develop and write a resident centered focused plan of care that includes a measurable goal and individualized interventions. The plan will addresses the resident's needs from a physical, cognitive, social, emotional and/or spiritual domain.
• Demonstrating and displaying the ability to create and maintain a monthly neighborhood calendar.
• Managing and balancing a neighborhood Therapeutic Recreation budget for programming and community trips.
• Ordering and maintaining an organized inventory of programming supplies and equipment.
• Demonstrating musical abilities in a manner which encourages, leads, and supports resident participation music and non-music in musical experiences; using a variety of pitched and non-pitched accompanying instruments to facilitate accomplishments of objectives.
• Actions, approaches, decisions and the delivery of Therapeutic Recreation and Music Therapy Services focus on the individual resident.
• Coaching, guiding, and directing interns, clinical students, assistants, and volunteers using appropriate Affiliate Clinical Education and Masonic Village guidelines and agreements

What You Have:

• Bachelor degree in Therapeutic Recreation as well as certification as a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist by the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification (NCTRC) or eligible to sit for exam and achievement within one year of employment or a Bachelor degree in Music Therapy as well as certification by the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) or eligible to sit for exam with achievement within one year of employment.
• Prefer one year of experience in Therapeutic Recreation Services/Music Therapy in a continuing care setting (college clinical experiences and/or internship experience included)
• Strong written, oral, organization and basic computer skills
• Valid Pennsylvania driver's license.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Learn more about working at Masonic Villages of PA at our careers page: http://masonicvillages.org/careers/