Job Description and Duties
General Statement of Duties: Recreation/Music Therapy uses recreational/music activities and leisure resources to improve health and quality of life. These leisure opportunities will focus on helping the individual develop motor skills, social skills, and sensory functioning, needed for community integration. Through leisure counseling and activities, clients are encouraged to make healthy decisions to cope with stress, emotions and peers. Activities are used to to develop skills in leadership, teamwork, sportsmanship, self-esteem, and to help maintain clients' social, cognitive, physical and emotional well-being. Rehabilitation Therapists will apply therapeutic habilitation knowledge, activities and techniques to the problems of mental or intellectual disabilities found in adults; assess individual needs, determine appropriate habilitative/rehabilitative objectives and develop activities to meet these objectives; work with members of the interdisciplinary team to reinforce other treatment modalities; re-evaluate these plans on a regular basis.
Effective July 1, 2025, State employees are subject to a salary reduction of three (3) percent in exchange for five (5) hours per month of the Personal Leave.
Work location to be determined.
Temporary state housing may be available for those relocating to fill hard to recruit positions. Housing assignments and rates will be determined in accordance with Department policy, operational priorities, and applicable labor agreements.
Level of Care employees will be required to perform the following Essential Functions:
Must be able to lift 50 pounds without assistance; must be able to participate in client containment, intervention or restraint; must have the ability to work extended hours and various shifts; must float to all work areas within the facility if called upon to do so.
**You MUST provide a legible copy of your degree or transcripts (unofficial is acceptable) as proof of meeting the education requirement as listed in the Classification Specification (please see the Class Specification located under “
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Working Conditions
TYPICAL WORKING CONDITIONS: Regular interaction with clients and staff in monitoring provision of direct services and other conditions common to on and off residence training environments. Staying at work area for periods of time on a residence or training site where a client may be receiving training or services. Work is performed at a level that requires the individual to be constantly alert. May spend time performing custody tasks which includes escorting forensic clients in the facility; counting, distributing, and accounting for all utensils to prevent their use as weapons; inspecting facilities to identify security breaches that could lead to the escape of a forensic client; and observing and intervening in forensic client behavior that may injure people, damage property, or signal impending escape attempts. Provides group therapy in recreation, music therapy and other areas as needed to a group of clients. May be required to work with clients with identified problems of aggression. Working conditions may lead to exposure to communicable diseases and other conditions common to a clinical/nursing environment. Must participate in meetings and conferences and other conditions common to an office environment and make effective use of equipment for report writing and data collection. Provides/supervises community outings. Plans/supervises program-wide activities.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Escorts clients to different areas on/off campus (appointments, scheduled trips), stands for periods of time in different areas of the residence and training sites (classrooms, work areas). Responds to all behavioral and medical intervention as required. Must possess and maintain sufficient strength, agility, endurance and sensory ability to perform the duties contained in the duty statement, and during mentally and emotionally stressful and emergency situations encountered on the job without endangering their own health and well-being or that of their fellow employees, forensic clients, non-forensic clients, or the public.
