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Enhancing Value and Competency in Recreation Therapy

Learn proven techniques, strategies to assist HR and management, job evaluation components, and challenges in healthcare provider shortages. Job evaluation factors and union involvement. Human resources, labor relations, recruitment and retention, workload measurement, standardized tests, and assessment tools. Networking opportunities with professional organizations and marketing for certification.

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Enhancing Value and Competency in Recreation Therapy

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  1. Withstanding the Challenges to being a Respected, Recognized ProfessionBCTRA 2010

  2. Learning Objectives • The participant will be able to identify three proven techniques for enhancing their value. • The participant will be able to identify at least two specific strategies to assist Human Resource Personnel, Senior Organizational Management and Union Leadership as to competency of Recreation Therapy Practitioners. • The participant will be able to identify the key components of Job Evaluation. • The participant will be able to identify the key concepts to what best practice is.

  3. Current and Future Health Care Provider Shortages • Budget Restraint • Hours of Work • Generic Tasks - Personal care, ADL, Transporting, etc. • Flexibility • New Workers - Therapeutic Assistants / Behaviourists / Health Promoters / Wellness Coordinators, Community Integrators / Navigators / and more

  4. Job Description - Management • Major Responsibilities 4-6 • Duties • Minimum Formal Education • Nature & Amount of Experience • Licensure / Certifications / Registration • Special Knowledge & Skills • Type & Level of Supervision Exercised • Judgment & Initiative • Key Relationships • Degree of responsibility for decisions, financial, human & material resources • Major end Results which position is intended to accomplish • Decisions (Independent, In consultation with director, Requiring Director

  5. Job Evaluation - An Outgrowth of Pay Equity • Hay - Management - more focus on management aspects such as budgets, staff supervision, scope • Factors include: Know- How, Problem Solving, Accountability, Working Conditions, Impact & Working Conditions • Watson/Wyatt (formerly known as Aiken Plan) - Union • SES - United Steel Workers of America - another Front Line “Blue Collar” Workers (Union) plan

  6. Job Evaluation Factors • Job Summary • Key Work Activities (3-5) • Eleven factors grouped under 3 categories: Skill, Responsibility, Effort & Working Conditions

  7. Job Evaluation Factor - Skill • Education, Certification / Licensure, Examination, Internship • Experience • Problem Solving • Complexity of Decision Making

  8. Job Evaluation Factor - Responsibility • Impact of Action (excludes negligence) • Working Relationships (courtesy vs. tact vs. diplomacy) • Leadership (Staff, not Volunteers, coordination vs. organization) • Accountability for Resources (evaluation of services, priorities, ensures optimum integration)

  9. Job Evaluation Factors - Effort & Working Conditions • Physical Demands (fatigue) • Sensory Demands (concentration) • Environment (exposure to hazards)

  10. Unions • Health Sciences Association of BC (HSABC) 10 Regions, Regional directors, members at large, Executive (President, VP, Sec./Treas.) • BCGEU, CUPE (HEU) • Region / Chapters / Component / Local Leadership, Chief & Asst. Chief Shop Stewards, Shop Stewards, Union Education &Training, Union Committees - OH&S, Demystifying Classification Education, etc. • National / Provincial - NUPGE, CLC, BC Federation of Labour, BC Health Coalition

  11. Human Resources & Management Labour Relations Recruitment & Retention Job Evaluation / Descriptions VP Level Director Level Professional Practice Leader Other Professionals

  12. Workload Measurement • CIHI - Cdn. Institute for Health Information • 2 types of Care • Patient Care (Direct & Indirect) • Non Patient Care • 70 / 30 ratio • Attendance, Visits, (Individual vs. Groups), New referrals, Discharges

  13. Workload Measurement Patient Care Activities: • Assessment - Interview, Testing, Observation • Therapeutic Interventions • Consultation / Collaboration • Documentation

  14. Workload Measurement Non - Patient Care Activities: • Program Planning • Volunteer Management • Teaching • Facility/ Community/Professional Activities • Functional Centre Management • Travel • Research

  15. Standardized Tests & Assessments Non-TR • MMSE, MOCA, GDS, GAS, BUS, Brain Injury - Rancho Los Amigos TR • LCM, LSM, LAS, LMS, LAI, LIM, FTM, Leisure Step Up, MARRCC, FACTR-R, CERT, etc. - Assessment Tools for RT by Idyll Arbor

  16. Activity Analysis • Physical (Strength, Speed, Flexibility, Agility, Endurance) • Cognitive (Complexity, Strategy, Concentration • Social (Contact, Structure, Noise, Verbal) • Affective (Joy, Guilt, Fear, Pain, Success, Satisfaction, Acceptance) • Administration ($$$, Transportation, Accessibility, Safety, etc.)

  17. Professional Organizations • Local - Health Region Chapters • Provincial - BCTRA and other Provinces • National - CTRA • International - ATRA, NTRS / NRPA • Related - Parks & Recreation • Certification - NCTRC • Licensing - College of Recreation Therapists (Nova Scotia - 2011-2012)

  18. Marketing & PromotionNCTRC • Specialty Certification - Beh. Health, Com. Inclusion, DD, Geriatrics, Phys. Rehab • Brochures - Why Hire a CTRS, Why Become a CTRS, CTRS Profile, Testimonial • Job Analysis Report • Legal Recognition Paper • Scope of Practice

  19. Marketing & PromotionStudents and Volunteers • Volunteer Services • Position Descriptions • Volunteer orientation & training • Any student • TR students (Placement & internship) • Volunteers per TR staff member

  20. Marketing & Promotion • Foundations • Fund Raising • Recreation, Music, Sport, Outdoor Rec., Gardening • Home Depot - Sheppard Ctr. - Atlanta • Ellen Page, James Sheppard, Sidney Crosby, Sarah MacLachlan • Justin Morneau (Baseball), Nick Taylor (Golf), Steve Nash (BBall) Hockey, Football, Soccer etc. • Chair in TR at Vancouver Coastal

  21. Government Advocacy & Awareness • Departments of Health / Community Services / Education / Justice • Education (Schools, Colleges & Universities) • Politicians - all Parties • Key Community Groups and Organizations - Disability Groups - Mental Health, ABI, Physical Diseases and Conditions - (Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Health, Degenerative, Neurological, Joint & Bone, Transplant etc.

  22. Research • TR • Parks and Recreation • Benefits of Leisure (Driver) • Benefits of TR (NTRS/NRPA) • Sport and Physical Activity • Leisure, Leisure Education, Outdoor Education & Tourism

  23. Research • Population Health - Obesity, Chronic Diseases, Poverty, Unemployment • Specific Disability - Geriatrics, Developmental • Addictions / Substance Abuse & Dual Diagnosis • Youth at Risk, Seniors • Criminology / Justice / Forensics / Young Offenders • Other Professions

  24. Professional Journals & Texts • TRJ • Activities, Adaptation & Aging • Leisure Science • Journal of Leisure Research • Parks & Recreation • OT, PT, Nursing, Social Work, Psychology, Speech, Aging etc.

  25. What Makes us Different • Hours of Work & Days of Work • Settings - Institutional, Segregated Community, Community • Comprehensive Program Planning • Program Planning (SPP) & Evaluation • Volunteers • Student Supervision beyond TR Students • Job Evaluation - Physical & Environmental Demands • Inherent Higher Risks in our RX / Activities • Additional Certifications / Training

  26. Other Realities We Have to Face • Difference between a Diploma Program and Baccalaureate Degree • Difference between a Recreation Diploma or Degree and TR Dip. / Degree • Registration versus Certification versus Licensure • Standards of practice that delineate between Assistive Personnel and Licensed Recreation Therapists

  27. Summary • Overwhelming the potential tasks at hand • Ask not what has your Professional Organization (Employer / Union) done for you but rather what have you done for your profession • Need Leaders and “Sacrificial Lambs” • Professional commitment beyond the traditional work day -Volunteerism as a part of your Leisure Lifestyle • Passion

  28. Questions & Comments

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