Art Therapist

Program Development

• Work with patients, families, and staff to understand the needs of assigned inpatient and outpatient population in relation to an art therapy program.
• Develop a vision, set goals and priorities; help to develop appropriate documentation standards to reflect art therapy assessments and interventions; help develop materials to explain and promote the Program; help design measures to evaluate effectiveness of the Program.
• Work with CNH Foundation and other hospital departments to promote the Program internally and externally as appropriate.
• Assist with activities to fund the Program (grant writing, support for fund raising activities).
• Maintain organized records, statistics, and surveys of the program.
• Participate in development of student training program.

Art Therapy Patient Services

• Meet individual patients and parents/guardians to explain art therapy program, invite participation, and answer questions.
• Assess individual and/or group needs and identify goals based on assessment.
• Develop and implement art therapy interventions for individuals and groups as appropriate to promote emotional well-being and provide a healing environment.
• Design and provide individual and group art activities and evaluate outcome.
• Document interventions in patient medical records according to standards developed for art therapy documentation.
• Obtain and maintain an age appropriate and safe selection and quantity of art supplies, equipment, and other materials for the program.

Collaboration

• Participate as an active member of Patient and Family Support Program to integrate art therapy programs with other psychosocial services.
• Participate actively in departmental rounds and psychosocial rounds to insure coordinated care for patients and families.
• Foster communication with hospital staff and collaborate in staff support efforts.
• Collaborate with relevant departmental and hospital staff to address patient or systemic problems that arise.

Training and Research

• Orient, train, supervise, and evaluate art therapy graduate students, interns and volunteers, as appropriate.

Safety

• Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance.
• Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation.
• Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation.
• Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication.
• Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers.
• Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance.