• Job Description

  Req#: 164994

  Overview

  Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

  The Creative Arts Therapist functions within the Child Life Department offering the arts as a therapeutic modality for pediatric patients and their family members in an inpatient or an outpatient area.

  Responsibilities

  A day in the life of a Creative Arts Therapist at Hackensack Meridian Health includes:

  1. Collaborates with Child Life Program.2. Provides creative arts therapy for both individuals and groups of children.3. Daily productivity goal 90% clinical and 10% non clinical responsibilities (volunteers, students, other programming needs). Team members will be responsible for collecting data to support productivity. Data will be forwarded to the leader on a monthly basis for review.4. Evaluates creative arts therapy program on monthly basis with Child Life Manager5. Provides therapeutic support for pediatric patients during identified stress points such as medical distress, end of life.6. Collaborates with other team members by sharing information regarding planning of treatment and follow up.7. Procures creative art supplies.8. Identifies the needs of the patient population served and modifies and delivers care that is specific to those needs (i.e., age, culture, language, hearing and/or visually impaired, etc.) This process includes communicating with the patient, parent and/or primary caregiver(s) at their level (developmental/age, educational, literacy, etc.).9. Assists with other programming needs as assigned.10. Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

  Qualifications

  Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

  1. Appropriate education in creative arts therapy from an accredited creative arts therapy program.2. Bachelor's Degree

  Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred:

  1. Master's Degree

  Licenses and Certifications Required:

  1. Creative Arts Therapy Certification by the appropriate creative arts accrediting board within 6 months from date of hire.2. AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification.

  If you feel the above description speaks directly to your strengths and capabilities, then please apply today!

• About the company

  Hackensack Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit health care organization that is the most comprehensive and truly integrated health care network in New Jersey, offering a complete range of medical services, innovative research and life-enhancing care. The health care network comprises 13 hospitals, including two academic medical centers, two children’s hospitals and nine community hospitals, physician practices, more than 120 ambulatory care centers, surgery centers, home health services, long-term care and assisted living communities, ambulance services, lifesaving air medical transportation, fitness and wellness centers, rehabilitation centers, and urgent care and after-hours centers.

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