Art Therapist

Part-Time: 24 Hours Per Week

1st Shift: 10am - 6:30pm

Tues/Wed/Sat

Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit

Summary

Provides comprehensive art therapy assessment and treatment interventions for patients, families, and community served by Akron Children's.

Responsibilities

• Plans, develops, and implements comprehensive therapeutic art programming for children, adolescents, young adults, families, and staff. Facilitates group and individual art therapy sessions with inpatient and outpatient populations in a variety of settings, including home environment.
• Responsible for assessing patients and families to determine psycho-emotional and developmental needs to facilitate goal focused art therapy-based interventions to promote adaptive coping strategies.
• Maintains accurate and up-to-date charting related to patient participating in art therapy sessions.
• In collaboration with individual divisions/departments, designs and implements art therapy interventions for patients, learners, and staff. Oversees activities of volunteers and interns during group art therapy sessions.
• Facilitates art therapy education for patients, families, staff, and community. Collaborates with faculty at affiliated institutions to provide comprehensive internship opportunities for art-therapy students.
• Participates in research and professional collaboration, including participation in multi-disciplinary teams, like Palliative Care, Behavioral Health, Addiction Services, Burn Center, and Rehabilitation Services. Actively participate in the development of evidence-based practice for the field of art therapy and advocate for integration of evidence-based art therapy interventions into patient treatment plans.
• Other duties as required.

Other information:

Technical Expertise

• Experience in working with children, adolescents, and young adults in individual and group-based interventions is required.
• Experience with hospital-community collaboration is preferred.
• Ability to organize and prioritize multiple work assignments and projects.
• Experience working in electronic charting software (e.g. EPIC) is preferred.
• Strong problem-solving, interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written) are required.
• Research experience preferred.

Education and Experience

• Education: Master's Degree in Art Therapy required.
• Certification: ATR-BC accreditation required Must be certified or registered by the Art Therapy Credentials Board or another recognized state or national body. LPC credential preferred but not required.
• Licensure: A valid, active license to practice as Licensed Professional Art Therapist in the state of Ohio is required.
• Years of relevant experience: 2 years
• Years of supervisory experience: None required but experience supervising interns, students, and other practitioners is preferred.
• Ability to deal with confidential information and/or issues using discretion and judgement.

Part Time

FTE: 0.600000

Status: Onsite