Career Opportunities in Inclusive and Therapeutic Recreation
Link Associates
Christy Jennings, CTRS: [email protected]
Link Associates is hiring 2 Full-Time and 1 Part-Time Recreational Therapists. The CTRS is responsible for instructing and coaching persons served to promote independence in the development and maintenance of social/self-help/life skills and community integration through therapeutic recreation programming in Day Program or the Therapeutic Rec Department. They will also assist with person's served assessment, programs, community evaluation and program evaluation administration. For more information, please visit www.linkassociates.org.
Camp High Hopes
Derek Bergman: [email protected]
Camp High Hopes is hiring a full time Director of Fun, also known as the Program Director (PD). The PD is responsible for mentoring and empowering staff, driving innovative adaptive recreation, and ensuring every participant receives the utmost care and respect. Work extends beyond the summer with engaging programs throughout the school year. They are seeking a candidate with experience in adaptive recreation, personal care, and behavior management for individuals with disabilities. For more information and to apply, please visit https://www.camphighhopes.com/get-involved
Clive Behavioral Health
Christine Mullane: [email protected]
Clive Behavioral Health is hiring a full time Recreational Therapist. The RT is responsible for planning and implementing activity services for assigned program, which involves defining and implementing treatment goals as a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team and providing continuous patient care, observation, interaction, and role modeling to patients. Shift would be 8 hours 5 days a week or 10 hour shifts 4 days a week. Would be working every other weekend. May have to work til 7pm a few days a week. For more information and to apply, please visit https://jobs.uhs.com/clive-behavioral-health-system/jobs/280191?lang=en-us
Christy Jennings, CTRS: [email protected]
Link Associates is hiring 2 Full-Time and 1 Part-Time Recreational Therapists. The CTRS is responsible for instructing and coaching persons served to promote independence in the development and maintenance of social/self-help/life skills and community integration through therapeutic recreation programming in Day Program or the Therapeutic Rec Department. They will also assist with person's served assessment, programs, community evaluation and program evaluation administration. For more information, please visit www.linkassociates.org.
Camp High Hopes
Derek Bergman: [email protected]
Camp High Hopes is hiring a full time Director of Fun, also known as the Program Director (PD). The PD is responsible for mentoring and empowering staff, driving innovative adaptive recreation, and ensuring every participant receives the utmost care and respect. Work extends beyond the summer with engaging programs throughout the school year. They are seeking a candidate with experience in adaptive recreation, personal care, and behavior management for individuals with disabilities. For more information and to apply, please visit https://www.camphighhopes.com/get-involved
Clive Behavioral Health
Christine Mullane: [email protected]
Clive Behavioral Health is hiring a full time Recreational Therapist. The RT is responsible for planning and implementing activity services for assigned program, which involves defining and implementing treatment goals as a member of the interdisciplinary treatment team and providing continuous patient care, observation, interaction, and role modeling to patients. Shift would be 8 hours 5 days a week or 10 hour shifts 4 days a week. Would be working every other weekend. May have to work til 7pm a few days a week. For more information and to apply, please visit https://jobs.uhs.com/clive-behavioral-health-system/jobs/280191?lang=en-us
Internship Opportunities in Therapeutic Recreation
St Luke's Hospital - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Whitney Broghammer: [email protected]
St Luke's Child/Adolescent Psychiatry unit offers programming for children with behavioral and mental health challenges to provide patients with skills needed to be successful. Interns will learn how to provide direct patient care and run small and large groups for kids ages 6 - 18. For more information, email Whitney Broghammer, CTRS.
Meaningful Day Services
Meaningful Day Services is accepting applications for Recreational Therapy interns for the upcoming Fall and Winter Semesters.
Indianapolis area - 2 openings
Fort Wayne area - 1 opening
Jeffersonville area - 1 opening
Questions to Mandy McQueeney, CTRS @ [email protected]
To learn about our internship program: https://youtu.be/QVdYrkjkw
You can access applications at: https://meaningfuldays.com/careers
Adaptive Sports Iowa
Hannah Lundeen, [email protected]
https://www.adaptivesportsiowa.org/about-us/internship-opportunities/
Adaptive Sports Iowa is a nonprofit organization that provides statewide leadership in the planning, promotion, education, and organization of sports and recreation opportunities for Iowans with physical disabilities. The intern will gain experience in planning and implementing sports programs, special events, fundraising, and marketing.
Camp Courageous
Kaite Ryan, [email protected]
https://campcourageous.org
Camp Courageous is a barrier-free recreation and respite facility serving individuals ranging in age from 3-100 with a variety of disabilities and medical conditions. Camp Courageous offers a TR internship position during the Fall, Spring, and Summer. The intern will gain experience working directly with campers through Camp’s weeklong residential program, special events, outdoor education program, and respite program, as well as through the opportunity to travel with Camp to various locations.
Camp High Hopes
Assistant Program Director: 712-224-2267 ex: 104 or [email protected]
https://camphighhopes.com
This internship involves assisting and leading groups of individuals with a wide range of ages and abilities in different recreation plans and activities.
ChildServe
Jordan Trout: [email protected]
https://www.childserve.org
Non-profit inpatient clinical setting for long term and acute rehab care for children ages 0-30.
Eagle View Behavioral Health
Danielle Hermsen; [email protected]
https://www.eagleviewbh.com/
Eagle View Behavioral Health is a 72 bed behavioral health hospital. We currently serve adolescents to adults, ages 12 and up. The recreational therapists complete assessments and lead groups on our adolescent and adult units as well as a group in our adult partial hospitalization program.
Presbyterian Homes and Services - Highland Ridge Campus
Sheila Schlabach; [email protected]
https://www.preshomes.org/our-communities/highland-ridge
The purpose of your position is to “create smiles in the eyes of people we serve” by fulfilling Presbyterian Homes’ mission, purpose, motto, commitment to service, promise, and practices. With the guidance of the Life Enrichment Specialist, the intern is responsible for planning, implementing, and monitoring high quality life enhancement/Life Enrichment therapy programming for residents consistent with regulations and established policies, procedures and best practices.
Link Associates Leisure Services
Adria Smith; [email protected]
https://www.linkassociates.org/
Link Associates provides comprehensive, year round, community-based adult leisure programs and services that are based on the philosophy that constructive use of leisure time promotes healthy human development. Experiences are strengthened by our use of community resources and our promotion of integrated activities.
Meth-Wick Community
Eryn Cronbaugh; [email protected]
https://methwick.org/
Interns will have the opportunity to work with older adults, focusing on 6 dimensions of wellness, throughout the continuum of care from Independent Living through Skilled Nursing. Interns will practice the APIE process and will be able to learn from a variety of experiences throughout our campus.
NewAldaya Lifescapes
Jess Kennedy; [email protected] and Jocelyn Jones; [email protected]
https://www.newaldaya.org/about/
Interns will obtain experience in a professional TR setting (Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care, Skilled and Nursing Residents) and be involved in Assessment, Documentation, Program Planning, Evaluation, Department Meetings, Resident Care Conferences, Safety Committees, and Resident Council, among other duties. Interns will interact with other departments within the organization to gain professional knowledge of the organization as a whole, in addition to the Programming Department.
Oaknoll Retirement Residence
Lindsey Reed; [email protected]
https://www.oaknoll.com/
An internship at Oaknoll will provide great experience at three levels of care: Independent, Assisted and Long Term Care/Dementia Specific. Interns learn how to properly plan and engage residents in group opportunities as well as one to one. Care plans are built and evaluated, calendars are developed and interns get to participate in current projects and events as an active contributor. Oaknoll is an organization who promotes and accepts new ideas and encourages all to be creative with ideas and work to improve the lives of those we serve.
Pathways Adult Day Health Center
Hannah Lenth; [email protected]
https://www.unitypoint.org/cedarrapids/adult-day-health-centers.aspx
Pathways Adult Day Health Center offers adult day programming in addition to a Day Habilitation program. Interns will spend time building rapport with clients, planning and implementing both adult day and day hab programming, and completing their internship project. Interns will also learn the administrative side of TR in working with funding and referral sources, writing ISP goals and treatment plans, and attending relevant trainings with the CTRS. We have a wide range of ages, abilities, and interests; every day is different and more fun than the last!
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Jon Mitchell; [email protected]
https://uihc.org/recreation-therapy-internship-program
The intern will follow the APIE(D) process for providing patient care to patients in a clinical setting. The patients are in adult general hospital settings as well as behavioral health settings with children, adolescents and adults.
**Email Adrienne Johnson at [email protected] with any spring 2022 TR internship opportunities.