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Expressive Therapist - PRN

CounselorIncludes weekendsNo nightsPer Diem

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Job Description

Responsibilities

We are looking for Master-Level Creative Arts (MUSIC, DANCE MOVEMENT, ART, ETC.,) Therapists who are willing to share their talents in order to explore the many avenues to healing.

This opportuntity offers varied PRN/Per Diem schedule and hours preferably on weekends for day shift.

Rockford Center is a 138-bed mental health facility located in Newark, DE, providing easy access to a full complement of inpatient and partial behavioral health programs for children and adolescents, adults, and older adults. Rockford is the only child inpatient behavioral health facility in DE, offers an experienced and tenured senior management team, and serves New Castle County and northern Maryland.

Website: Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services | Rockford Center | Newark, DE

Position Summary

The Expressive Therapist plans and facilitates therapeutic interventions utilizing creative arts modalities, such as art, music, dance/movement, drama, or other expressive therapies, to support patients' emotional, behavioral, and mental health treatment goals. This position requires a Master's degree in Creative Arts Therapy, Expressive Therapies, or a related therapeutic modality and collaborates with the interdisciplinary treatment team to assess patient needs, document progress, and promote recovery through evidence-based creative interventions.

Responsibilites

  • Deliver quality recreational and expressive therapies according to patient treatment program.
  • Develop and implement expressive therapy treatment plans that are age appropriate, and consistent with overall treatment goals.
  • Facilitates patient groups that are well prepared and beneficial to clients.
  • Maintain the clinical and administrative documentation associated with performed services
  • Initiates emergency measures according to age appropriate CPR and client resuscitation protocols.
  • Participates in emergency crisis interventions according to age appropriate techniques.

Maintains confidentiality related to patient, family, client facility and staff in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Provides patient care in a non-judgmental, non-discriminatory manner that considers cultural diversity and age appropriateness so that autonomy, rights, and dignity are preserved.

Benefits

Challenging and Rewarding Work Environment

  • Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ Subsidiaries!
  • More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website: benefits.uhsguest.com

About Universal Health Services

Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) is one of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services.

Since our founding in 1979, UHS has grown steadily into a premier Fortune 500® corporation perennially recognized by multiple esteemed national rating entities.

Through its subsidiaries, UHS operates inpatient acute care facilities, inpatient behavioral health facilities, outpatient and other facilities, nationwide virtual behavioral health services, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services with physical locations in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Ireland and United Kingdom. uhs.com.

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Qualifications

Requirements

  • Master's degree in Creative Arts, Recreation, Music or Dance Movement Therapy.
  • Previous experience in Behavioral Health preferred.
  • CPR certification and Completion of Handle With Care training within 90 days of employment.

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Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)

Key Skills

Music therapyArt therapyPatient assessmentTreatment planningGroup facilitationClinical documentationCrisis interventionEvidence-based practiceHIPAA compliance

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Expressive Therapist - PRN at UHS a 6.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) — ranked against 8,035 active Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no night shifts.

Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Mental Health Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 56% are remote, 28% have no call, 62% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Delaware is 99.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.5% of Delaware clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Work-life snapshot

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Better work-life than 50% of Mental Health Therapy (Counseling) listings

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  • No nights
  • Includes weekends

Living in Newark

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$327k
Typical market rent
$2,037/mo
Residents’ average commute
19 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
102.6
State income tax
Up to 6.6%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.