One of the nation’s largest and most respected hospital companies, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Steadily growing from a startup to an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation, UHS today has annual revenue nearing $10 billion. In 2017, UHS was recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; ranked #276 on the Fortune 500, and listed #275 in Forbes inaugural ranking of America’s Top 500 Public Companies.

 

Our operating philosophy is as effective today as it was 40 years ago: Build or acquire high quality hospitals in rapidly growing markets, invest in the people and equipment needed to allow each facility to thrive, and become the leading healthcare provider in each community we serve.

 

Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has more than 81,000 employees and through its subsidiaries operates more than 320 acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities and ambulatory centers in the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the United Kingdom.

 

Quail Run Behavioral Health is seeking a dynamic and talented Activity/Music Therapist.

Key Responsibilities include:

• The Activity Therapist is responsible for planning and implementing activity services for assigned program. As a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team, responsibilities include defining and implementing treatment goals and providing continuous patient care, observation, interaction, and role modeling to patients.

• Assessment

• Demonstrate responsibility for observation and application of sound judgment in patients' physical and mental condition/needs.

• Observe and document changes in patients' appearance, behavior, and ability to work towards
  treatment plan goals.

• Communicate changes in patient's condition to Doctor, Director of Clinical Services, therapist, or Charge Nurse.

• Provide assessment in psychosocial/leisure and recreational skills development/deficiency.

   

  Interventions

• Ensure timely documentation of interventions and ensure interventions are based on the patient's Treatment Plan.

• Apply appropriate crisis intervention techniques, as required.

• Assist patients in achieving their optimum level of independent functioning.

• Facilitate recreation therapy groups or provide 1:1 interventions as assigned, for psychiatric, behavioral, chemically dependent patients.

• Document services rendered in accordance with established criteria.

• Maintain current documentation in daily progress notes, including the patient's name, date of therapy, name of therapeutic group/intervention, and patient’s progress towards goal.

   

  Milieu

• Effectively plan and implement activity therapy for assigned patient case load.

• Monitor therapeutic space, supplies and equipment and ensure they are kept in a clean, orderly and safe condition.

• Utilize advanced knowledge of counseling and therapeutic concepts and methods for determining therapeutic services for psychiatric and chemically dependent patients.

• Demonstrate knowledge of group dynamics as well as therapy and practice of group processing.

• Participate in Holiday Programming planning and facilitation all treatment programs.

• Treatment Planning

• Provide pertinent feedback to the interdisciplinary treatment team regarding patient response to therapy, treatment interventions, and therapeutic objectives, as appropriate and necessary.

• Contribute to treatment plan with specific goals and interventions to be achieved in therapeutic activities.