Staff Therapist Job Description
Staff therapist
provides direct counseling and mental health services to students with a range of mental, behavioral, and emotional needs within the established, short-term counseling model.
Staff Therapist Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective staff therapist job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included staff therapist job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Facilitate focused support groups
Evaluates the patients' upper extremity functional abilities and impairments by various testing procedures
Instructs patients in Hand Therapy Program
Determines modalities and implements treatment to maximize function
Obtains supportive information from other sources, such as physician's diagnosis and evaluation, family members, former employers
Recommends to physician, and others involved, modification of program as needed
Maintains and/or completes all required records and reports
Keeps current in the field by reading, attendance at selected professional meetings, seminars
Becomes involved in clinical research studies
Explains the role of therapy and rationale for intervention to patient, family, and other personnel as appropriate
Staff Therapist Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Staff Therapist
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPR, CEU, UNMATCHED, BCLS, FIM, BLS, CSCS, CADC, NBCOT, CBMT
Education for Staff Therapist
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the staff therapist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Education, Graduate, Communication, Social Work, Health, Counseling, Science, Medical Education
Skills for Staff Therapist
Desired skills for staff therapist include:
Community based social service
Facilities and their functions
Human behavior and performance
Individual differences in ability
Interests
Learning and motivation
Mental health
Personality
Support agencies
Theories and foundations of counseling
Desired experience for staff therapist includes:
Stressful and emotional situations occur often and you must be able to address these situations in a calm manner
Physical Therapist must not have any pre-existing medical or physical condition that prohibits the therapist from conducting patient care that includes lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling
Must possess a current State of Maine license for Physical Therapy
Demonstrated knowledge of and skill in adaptability, conflict resolution, creativity/innovation, decision making, customer service, group process facilitation, influence/negotiation, interpersonal relations, oral communication, problem solving, systems thinking, teamwork, and written communication
Work requires prolonged walking and standing (up to 95% of work time)
Must be able to work with newborns (if assigned) to the oldest old (up to 20% of the work time)
Staff Therapist Examples
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Staff Therapist Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a staff therapist. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for staff therapist
- Is aware of and utilizes audiovisual resources in the department to enhance instruction
- Participates in orienting, teaching, guiding, and evaluating the performance of supportive personnel
- Assists supportive personnel in identifying their own learning needs
- Provides lectures to hospital personnel as requested
- Provides timely inservice education (within one to two months) to department members after each continuing education course attended
- Presents a review of a research article pertinent to patient care
- Participates in planned orientation by working directly with therapists new to the unit
- Acts as a preceptor of new therapists with the help of higher level staff
- Supervises full-time student, as available, with occasional input of clinical education coordinator
- Offers lectures to students
Qualifications for staff therapist
- Must be able to react and move quickly to assist a patient when they are in distress
- Participates in career day as requested
- Provides observation experiences
- Assists in coordinating single day student experiences
- Licensed by the Board of Medicine to practice in the state of Arkansas
- Must have or obtain NRP certification within first 90 days of hire
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of staff therapist. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for staff therapist
- Build and maintain a network of mental health professionals, agencies, hospitals, to provide linkage to such resources for students
- Services include Case Management, and Outreach at the Center, schools, homes, community
- Complies with all California state regulations and those of the Board of Behavioral Science Examiners regarding practice and supervision of unlicensed MSW or MA therapists
- Contributes to the training of clinical interns and/or volunteers
- The Occupational Therapist evaluates, plans, and provides therapy for Pediatric patients
- The Physical Therapist performs professional Physical Therapy activities in accordance to policies and physician plan of treatment to promote positive health outcomes and quality services for patients
- Completes all required documentation for patient care and reimbursement
- Implements Treatment Plans and Protocol according to current professional and health system standards
- Completes all required documentation for patient care and reimbursement within prescribed timely manner as per department standards Completes and plans all required documentation in medical chart as required by Department guidelines and regulatory requirements
- Responsible for certain level of patient care productivity as indicated by individual Unit Procedures
Qualifications for staff therapist
- MSW with two years of general therapy experience with young adults
- Graduate of accredited Radiation Therapy Program, or BS degree in health sciences field
- Certified and in compliance with ARRT required
- Current licensure with the State of California (CRT) required
- The incumbent must be knowledgeable in the use of body mechanics for safely moving and positioning patients
- ACLS certification preferred within first 90 days of hire
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of staff therapist. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for staff therapist
- Internship experience will count towards clinical experience
- Assists Senior Hand Therapist by participating in the educational committee/research committee etc if needed
- Assists Senior Hand Therapist in planning in-services, symposiums, student clinical affiliations and hand therapist fellowship
- Attends and represents the department as needed outside the University
- Prepares meetings and staffing in-services for staff as needed
- Purchases equipment and supplies as authorized
- Assures that equipment is operational and in good repair
- Recommends improvements, policy changes, new equipment, etc for considerations by superiors
- Ensures compliance of department with all Strong Health, Article 28, JCAHO, and other regulatory requirements and reports status to Chief as needed
- Demonstrates the ability to apply the biomechanical properties of a muscle, muscle-tendon-juncture, tendon, ligament, articular and fibrocartilage
Qualifications for staff therapist
- MSW from accredited program
- One year of general therapy experience with young adults required
- MSW with 2 years of general therapy experience with young adults
- Diagnostic, assessment and intervention skills in clinical areas are necessary, the ability to make decisions about urgency of patient problems
- Interest in group therapy
- MA,MSW Internship
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a staff therapist. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for staff therapist
- Demonstrates the ability to interpret subjective and objective data to identify the potential sources of pain, dysfunction and underlying pathology
- Produces a written plan of care for diagnosis based on evidence and criteria based progressions for return to sport, work, and/or active lifestyle
- Demonstrates the importance of adapting the plan of care in response to pain levels and objective findings
- Ability to describe and apply the rationale for using exercises for the upper extremity as it relates to any given upper extremity condition, the biomechanics of an upper extremity injury and joint protection
- Provides patient care in a competent, efficient manner, following policies and procedures
- Implements Treatment Plansand Protocol according tocurrent professional andhealth system standards.Establishes achievable andappropriate treatment goalswith patient and family.Considers a variety ofvalidated treatmentapproaches and rationales forachievement of patient goals.Selects appropriate technicalaids/assistive devices andcorrectly refers patients toother clinical services toachieve stated program/teamtreatment goals
- Initial Assessment and Evaluation of Physical Therapy needs for specifically assigned patient
- Participates in Clinical Education of Fieldwork students and other professional educational endeavors
- Actively pursues appropriate program development that transcends intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary clinical advances in patient care interventions
- Actively engages other colleagues in clinical learning experiences
Qualifications for staff therapist
- Meets ADA requirements for the job position
- Clinical skills for an OT, PT, or ST
- One year of experience in an outpatient, home health or rehabilitation-center setting
- Ability to relate empathetically, effectively, and consistently with diverse student population including sensitivity to cultural differences
- Solid understanding of counseling, consulting, and psychological assessments
- Ability to interact and effectively communicate with students, faculty, staff, and the community
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a staff therapist. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for staff therapist
- Build and maintain a network of mental health professionals, agencies, hospitals, to provide resources to students
- Reviews medical chart to ascertain important medical information and clarifies referral/Treatment orders if necessary for unfamiliar diagnosis
- Identify psychological, emotional, behavioral symptoms
- This position requires regular year-round attendance
- Interact with patients and their loved ones to develop the best support program that will fit their needs
- Required to stay in sync with federal, state, and local legal and professional requirements by continuance of education of new legislation, future legislation, advising management of legislation, and carrying out importance of requirements
- Maintains equipment, and requisitions supplies
- May instruct students, nurses and other personnel in the theory and practice of Occupational Therapy
- Assists in setting up programs for the guidance of families with handicapped or disabled members in the home
- Teaches therapeutic arts aud crafts, including design leather, metal, plastics,textil and wood
Qualifications for staff therapist
- Ability to develop, organize, facilitate, and evaluate programs
- Experience in providing AOD assessments
- Develop and improve job knowledge and skills
- Pursue and accomplish CEU requirements in pertinent areas for self-development and licensure
- Minimum of a Master's Degree in Counseling and/or Social Work
- Three years of experience in a university or college counseling center and experience with AOD outreach/education and substance abuse assessment and counseling