Art Therapist- Elementary/Secondary School Setting

Job Title: Art Therapist

Job Title Code: 020106

Salary Grade: S614 $49600 - $77372

Department Curriculum Instruction and Professional Development

Reports to: Department of Diversity and Inclusion

FLSA Status:

Date Prepared: May 2022

Purpose of Job:

The Art Therapist will utilize the creative process to help K-12 students to explore self-expression, lower stress and anxiety, build self-esteem and confidence, and process thoughts and feelings.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Provides individual and group art therapy to students, using a specialized curriculum in K-12 Visual Arts that focuses on social emotional learning, self-expression, and creativity.
• Assesses students referred for individual art therapy, prioritizes high-need students to add fine arts education into daily academic schedule
• Implement trauma-informed and therapeutic activities to enhance the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of students
• Contributes to academic plans on individual students based on students strengths with individualized, specific, measurable and time referenced goals in collaboration with the musical benchmarks. 
• Utilizes a variety of art mediums that are appropriate for students’ skill levels. 
• Selects and requisitions books and instructional aids: maintains required inventory records. 
• Actively seeks to resolve issues, problems and concerns.
• Shows sensitivity to and appreciation of issues related to age, ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, gender, and sexual orientation.
• Provides clinical services in a manner appropriate to the client's level of functioning.
• Accepts and responds appropriately to feedback from administration, staff, supervisors and referral sources.
• Actively seeks ongoing professional development and knowledge of new treatment modalities and evidence based practices.
• Participates in staff and teacher meetings and staff development sessions..
• Other duties and/or responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements:

• Must have a bachelor’s degree in art therapy 
• Minimum of two (2) years of experience.
• Must be a Registered (ATR) or Board-Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC).
• Must have knowledge of specific age-appropriate mental health care needs of children and adolescent patients.
• CPR/First Aid Certification required

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

This job requires that the employee be able to: sit, stand, walk, speak, hear, use hands, fingers, reach with hands and fingers; bend, stoop, lift objects of at least ten pounds.  Job requires the employee occasionally to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.  Visual ability requires mono and color vision, close vision, distance vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.  

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: 

Length of work year: 12 month 7.5 Hours/day

Benefits:          Health and Dental Insurance are provided.

KCPS Defined Benefit Pension plan – mandatory 9% contribution is required from employee and matched by KCPS; Voluntary retirement savings plans are also available.