Position Summary:
The Recreation Specialist provides therapeutic recreation activity to all patients of the program by organizing outdoor recreation activities and event coordination. This position requires Saturday/Sunday availability.
Position Responsibilities:
- Develop, organize, and engage patients in therapeutic and treatment program relevant recreational activities.
- Coordinate, schedule, and facilitate recreational activities daily.
- Responsible for interacting with and supporting clinical staff by sharing relevant and important patient information.
- Responsible for supporting facility AMA activities and/or crisis interventions.
- Research and implement treatment relevant recreational therapies and interventions.
- Ensures that proper curriculums are developed and maintained to support all recreational activities for the organization.
- Ensures that proper supplies and equipment are on inventory to support the provision of therapy services.
- Ensures that all interactions, interventions, and communications are properly and promptly documented in the medical record or other appropriate documentation tool as required.
Licensures and/or Certifications
Certified Addiction Counselor CAC preferred.
CPR certification required.
Education and Experience:
High School Diploma or equivalent required.
Bachelor’s degree in recreational therapy, recreation rehabilitation or related field preferred.
Minimum of one (1) year in a Behavioral Healthcare or recovery setting preferred. Knowledge of the principles and practices of recreational and therapeutic activity programs.
Skills Required
- CPR certification
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Weekend availability (Saturday and Sunday)
- Bachelor's degree in recreational therapy, recreation rehabilitation, or related field
- Certified Addiction Counselor (CAC)
- Minimum one (1) year experience in a behavioral healthcare or recovery setting
- Knowledge of principles and practices of recreational and therapeutic activity programs
What We Do
We Level Up was created to drive a moment of change. It is a lifestyle with the purpose to live in empowering beliefs through connection, authenticity, self-love, emotional integrity, and service to others. Through this WLU offers personal development events, coaching, and dual diagnosis drug and alcohol treatment plus primary inpatient mental health programs. Our vision is to help create legions of self-empowered individuals who are completely in control of their lives and destinies, enabling them to get what they desire from this life, experiencing it to their fullest, most liberating potential. Through these hosts of self-empowered, and self-aware individuals, we will see families that communicate with more love, trust, and caring for one another, businesses that thrive in ways never before thought possible, and friendships that reach new heights. We Level Up produces a liberation from the mental chains that bind us, and enable us to operate at our fullest capacity. Have you ever wondered why you’re always living the same patterns over and over, end up feeling like a victim, or making the same choices that always lead to stress, anguish, and inevitable upset? We Level up offers not an answer, but a solution to these grave dilemmas that face us on a daily basis.
