Recreational Therapist jobs in Sheridan, WY

INPATIENT THERAPIST – WYOMING BEHAVIORAL INSTITUTE, CASPER

Consider a career with meaning and purpose!

Join Wyoming Behavioral Institute as an INPATIENT THERAPIST, and enjoy a career that provides purpose, meaning and career development opportunities.

Wyoming Behavioral Institute, located in Casper, WY is a psychiatric hospital providing excellent care to children, adolescent and adults.  We take pride in being a cohesive, family-friendly, flexible, educational and welcoming work environment!

Salary: $55,000 to $85,000 (based on educ. & experience)

Shift – Days; some weekend call coverage (for additional compensation)

Your Benefits will include:

• Paid clinical hours and continuing education program
• Excellent and affordable full benefits package within 30 days (including employee wellness)
• Start earning Paid Time Off and Paid Sick time from your first day of work
• Continuing Education/Professional Development program – continue to develop your clinical skills
• Supportive, involved clinical team with extensive expertise in a multi-disciplinary collaborative clinical environment
• Bonus earning potential over and above salary
• Clinical Supervision provided by clinical leaders, collaborate with other licensed professionals

Your role and responsibilities:

• You will provide for therapeutic treatment as an active member of the clinical treatment team, using your clinical expertise, clinical therapeutic treatment modalities & comfort measures to meet the treatment needs of our patients.
• You will serve as the point person for patient families and regularly engage with patients to ensure they have clinical support to participate in treatment groups, activities and clinical therapeutic treatment or physician treatment in support of the patient’s ongoing treatment needs & goals.
• You will work closely and productively with psychiatrists, nursing, clinical and case management resources to assure overall coordination and therapeutic functioning of the patient in the treatment setting. Provides input to improve care coordination and functioning of the patient during the inpatient hospitalization and during discharge and after care.
• You will document patient presentation, treatment, interactions and engagement on a consistent basis as well use clinical assessment and case management skills to optimize patient improvement during inpatient hospitalization.

Your Qualifications include:

• Master's prepared and licensed in the State of Wyoming by the Mental Health Professions Licensing Board with licensure of LCSW, LPC, LMFT. Provisional licensure eligible candidates (PPC, PCSW, PMFT) encouraged to apply & clinical supervision provided by the facility (at no cost to employee).   
• Prefer two (2) years of progressive experience in therapeutic or clinical treatment, psychiatric acute care, residential care, partial care or equivalent is preferred.
• Must have knowledge of developmental tasks of children, adolescent, adult and geriatric patients and apply knowledge in assessment and planning of care.
• Must be 21 years of age to apply

Apply today at www.wbihelp.com (click on Careers at top right corner) or call 307-265-5126 and ask for Tammy Quinn, HR Director.

• Master's prepared and licensed in the State of Wyoming by the Mental Health Professions Licensing Board with licensure of LCSW, LPC, LMFT. Provisional licensure eligible candidates (PPC, PCSW, PMFT) encouraged to apply & clinical supervision provided by the facility (at no cost to employee).   
• Prefer two (2) years of progressive experience in therapeutic or clinical treatment, psychiatric acute care, residential care, partial care or equivalent is preferred.
• Must have knowledge of developmental tasks of children, adolescent, adult and geriatric patients and apply knowledge in assessment and planning of care.
• Must be 21 years of age to apply