Job Description

We are searching for a Provisional Art Therapist. Someone who develops, plans and delivers evidence-based assessment and therapy services to children and families. Implement art therapy to help meet the emotional, developmental, psychological, sociological, spiritual and social needs of children in an acute or outpatient setting.

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Qualifications

• Master's degree in art therapy Licenses and Certifications Required
• ATR-PBC - Provisional Registered Art Therapist Art Therapy Credentials Board (ATBC), Required within 6 months of entering the role. Attestation Required.
• A supervised practicum or internship of at least 700 hours required.
• Previous employment in health care, a health care specialization in schooling or a field work internship or practicum in health care preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides evidenced-based and developmentally appropriate screening/assessment, and focused patient/family therapy in accordance with the patients/families right to self-determination and principles of confidentiality.
• Develops, implements and/or updates comprehensive art therapy care plans
• Pursues professional development.
• Provides psychosocial screenings/assessments by interviewing patients and/or their families for information about the patients’ social, emotional/psychological, developmental/educational and health situations as well as family circumstances and relationships as required for patient care and/or treatment/transition planning.
• Establishes achievable treatment goals with patients.
• Tracks patient progress via ongoing symptom and functional assessment, using reliable and valid measures where available and adjusts treatment plan in accordance with findings.
• Creates and manages individualized patient and/or family treatment plans to address mental health needs of patient.

Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands is north Houston’s first true, free-standing pediatric hospital designed, equipped and staffed exclusively to provide care in more than 25 areas of specialty care for children and adolescents. Hospital facilities include 24 emergency center rooms, outpatient exam rooms, radiology rooms, operating rooms and acute care beds, as well as a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).

To join our community of 15,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities.

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.