Recreation Therapist, Adolescent Intensive Services

The Opportunity

Accountable to the Manager of Adolescent Intensive Services, the Recreation Therapist works with adolescents and families as part of an inter‑disciplinary treatment team. AIS is a voluntary treatment program that treats adolescents who are harmfully involved with substances, have a mental disorder or present with concurrent mental health disorders. The Recreation Therapist will be actively involved in program development with the goal of enhancing the development of life‑long leisure skills and attitudes, eliminating barriers to leisure, and optimizing the leisure involvement of adolescent clients in partnership with families, therapists and community groups. The Therapist will promote and enhance leisure lifestyle development for AIS clients through individual, family and group assessments and interventions. The Recreation Therapist is responsible for the assessment of an adolescent’s recreation and leisure needs, setting realistic goals with clients, d...