Job Description
Job Description Provides creative arts therapy, psychotherapy and counseling. Provides an environment that fosters and enhances creativity, socialization, and promotes physical and mental health
Responsibilities:
- Develops and conducts individual and group creative arts therapy sessions to include long-term and short-term goals based on observation and referrals.
- Designs and implements a variety of goal-oriented group sessions which utilize art and other creative modalities (e.g., music, drama, and dance) as effective therapeutic tools.
• Assesses effectiveness of sessions and makes appropriate changes, as needed. - Plans and implements a structured experience to enhance patient self-awareness and self-expression.
- Encourages independent creative expression through the use of creative arts, music or related media.
- Maintains current clinical documentation on all patients' sessions.
- Assists in operating, maintaining and purchasing equipment and other materials/resources necessary for creative art therapy sessions, i.e., presentation equipment, supplies, etc.
- Participates as a team member in providing continuing patients' assessment and treatment.
- Attends treatment team meetings and supervisory conferences
- Performs related duties, as required.
Required Experience and Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in Creative Arts Therapy, required.
- New York State Education Department licensed Creative Arts Therapist ( LIC-ARTH ), required;
OR NYSED Creative Arts Therapist valid permit (
PER-PCAT ) and must become licensed and registered within one (1) year of hire.
- Department specific certification in one or more of the following, preferred:
- Registered Art Therapist (ATR) or Board Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC) credentialing through Art Therapy Credentials Board (ATCB)
- Registered Drama Therapist (RDT) through the National Association for Drama Therapy (NADT)
- Registered Dance/Movement Therapist (R-DMT) through the Dance/ Movement Therapy Certification Board (DMTCB)
- Registered Music Therapist (RMT), Certified Music Therapist (CMT), or Advanced Certified Music Therapist (ACMT) through the National Association for Music Therapy (NAMT)
- Music Therapist - Board Certified (MT-BC) through the Certification Board of Music Therapists (CBMT).
- Minimum of one (1) year experience practicing creative arts therapy, required.
*Additional Salary Detail The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).
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