Recreation Therapist

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.