Job Description

Come join our team and love what you do! 

We are currently hiring a full time Licensed Creative Arts Therapist for Fremont Hospital! 

The Licensed Creative Arts Therapist will provide therapeutic services to patients using a variety of creative modalities, such as art, music, drama, or dance/movement. The therapist will work with individuals, groups, and families to address a range of mental health and emotional needs.

The Licensed Creative Arts Therapist is a part of the multidisciplinary team of outpatient services reporting to the program manager. They carry a caseload, facilitate groups, and conduct individual therapy using a combination of evidence-based treatment and creative arts interventions consistent with research findings, education, training, and experience. They exercise sound judgment and clinical excellence and sustain therapeutic alliance and patient satisfaction.

Fremont Hospital offers comprehensive benefits for the full time Licensed Creative Arts Therapist position, such as :

• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• Competitive compensation
• Tuition assistance
• Career development opportunities across UHS and our 300+ locations!
• HealthStream online learning catalogue with plenty of free CEU courses
• Competitive compensation & generous paid time off
• Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans
• 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
• Pet insurance
• SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program
• More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website:

Fremont Hospital is a fully accredited, 148-bed private inpatient psychiatric hospital providing quality care for children through adults. The facility provides a full assortment of care which includes assessments, inpatient psychiatric hospitalization, partial-hospitalization, intensive outpatient psychiatric treatment as well as chemical dependency outpatient care.

Commuting to Fremont Hospital is easy! It is convenently located near public transportation options such as AC Transit, BART, and the ACE Train. 

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation, annual revenues were $13.4 billion in 2022. During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has approximately 94,000 employees and continues to grow through its subsidiaries. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.

Education:

• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in a creative arts therapy, social work, counseling psychology, psychology, or related field required.  

Experience:

• Direct clinical experience in a psychiatric, mental health, or a comparable setting.
• Experience in running groups using creative arts therapy interventions.
• Experience in patient assessment, treatment planning, and communication with external review organizations, or comparable entities.
• Ability to provide skills training and cognitive restructuring within the cognitive-behavioral-affective model used and other evidence-based treatment, some DBT preferred.

Licensure:

• State Licensure (LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, PsyD, LP) required.

Certification(s):

• Certification in creative arts therapy of study and practice through certifying body preferred:
  • • International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA): registered expressive arts therapist (REAT).
    • American Art Therapy Association (AATA): registered art therapists (ATR).
    • American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA): registered dance/movement therapist (DMT).
    • North American Drama Therapy Association (NADTA): registered drama therapist (RDT).

Other Requirements:

• CPR/AED Certification must be current and presented to Human Resources upon hire.
• You may be required to successfully complete the Fremont Hospital’s non-violent Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) training course within 90 days of employment and prior to assisting with preventative intervention measures.

Computer/Software programs:

• Microsoft Office
• Google docs

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

Notice

At UHS and all our subsidiaries, our Human Resources departments and recruiters are here to help prospective candidates by matching skillset and experience with the best possible career path at UHS and our subsidiaries.  We take pride in creating a highly efficient and best in class candidate experience. During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (Social Security Number, credit card or bank information, etc.) from you via email. The recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc. If you are suspicious of a job posting or job-related email mentioning UHS or its subsidiaries, let us know by contacting us at: or 1-800-852-3449 .

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