Summary
Location
City of Yonkers
Type
full-time
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About this role
Saint Joseph's Medical Center in Yonkers, NY 29-bed Inpatient Psychiatric Unit provides a comprehensive treatment program for adults who need hospitalization. Admission to the unit can be voluntary or involuntary. Many patients requiring inpatient psychiatric hospitalization are admitted through the Emergency Department, which is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for psychiatric evaluation. Patients are treated by a multi disciplinary team of psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, behavioral techs, and creative arts therapists in addition to providing administration of psychiatric medications to stabilize acute and chronic conditions.
The Creative Arts Therapist will provide individual and group treatment for patients in order to facilitate their recovery and return to the community. In this role, the Creative Arts Therapist documents initial assessments, weekly notes, and multi-disciplinary treatment plans of assigned patients in order to develop a psychotherapeutic plan of care as an integral part of the multidisciplinary treatment program.
Responsibilities:
- Provide individual and group treatment using creative arts therapy techniques
- Perform and document weekly assessments throughout patient's
- Participate and present in daily Rounds and in-service events
- Recognize, address and utilize therapeutic creative arts interventions to facilitate mastery and
Experience:
- Masters in Art, Music, Dance/Movement, or Drama Therapy. New York State license in Creative Arts Therapy or limited permit eligibility required (supervision towards licensure provided if limited permit)
- Experience (preferably 2 or more years) working with people who have psychiatric diagnoses, preferably with people who have serious mental illness
1199 Rate: Nonlicensed - $38.9340 LCAT - $41.54
Please send resume and cover letter to Alexandra Brueckner, ATR-BC, LCAT at abrueckner@saintjosephs.org
Other facts
About St. Vincent's Health Partners
Since 1888, Saint Joseph’s Medical Center has served Yonkers and the surrounding communities of lower Westchester and northern Bronx with patient-centered, quality-focused inpatient and outpatient care, including specialized programs such as orthopedics, cardiology, family medicine and geriatrics; advanced emergency treatment, state-of- the art diagnostic imaging and ambulatory surgery; inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services; and a network of primary care services serving Westchester, the Bronx and northern Manhattan.
Affiliated with Saint Joseph's Medical Center, Saint Joseph's Medical Practice, PC is a multi-specialty physician medical practice in New York, with offices in Yonkers, the Bronx, Riverdale and Manhattan. Our team includes experts in cardiology, internal medicine, family medicine, primary care, gynecology and gastroenterology at 9 convenient office locations.
St. Vincent’s Hospital Westchester offers inpatient and outpatient mental health and addiction treatment services at its campus in Harrison and at off-site locations in White Plains, Tuckahoe and Port Chester. As a division of Saint Joseph’s Medical Center, St. Vincent’s also provides mobile crisis services for Westchester County, manages residential services for more than 1,300 individuals in Westchester County and New York City and operates three opioid treatment centers in New York City.
What you'll do
- The Creative Arts Therapist will provide individual and group treatment for patients to facilitate their recovery. They will document assessments and treatment plans as part of a multidisciplinary team.
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