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1 THE CITY OF NEW YORK DEPARTMENT OF CITYWIDE ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES APPLICATIONS CENTER 18 WASHINGTON STREET NEW YORK, NY N O T I C E O F E X A M I N A T I O N ACTIVITY THERAPIST (HHC) Exam. No (For The New York City Health an Hospitals Corporation Only) WHEN TO APPLY: From: February 7, 2007 APPLICATION FEE: $35.00 To: February 27, 2007 Payable only by money orer to D.C.A.S. (EXAMS) WHAT THE JOB INVOLVES: Activity Therapists, uner supervision with latitue for initiative an jugment, perform responsible therapeutic work of varying egrees of ifficulty an responsibility in an activity therapy epartment proviing meical/psychiatric recreational therapeutic services for patients/resients in conjunction with other members of the treatment team. All Activity Therapists perform relate work. Special Working Conitions: Activity Therapists may be require to work shifts incluing nights, Saturays, Sunays, an holiays. Some of the physical activities performe by Activity Therapists an environmental conitions experience are: staning for long perios of time, pushing wheelchair confine patients/resients, an accompanying patients/resients on fiel trips off site. (This is a brief escription of what you might o in this position an oes not inclue all the uties of this position.) THE SALARY: The current minimum salary is $32,275 per annum. This rate is subject to change. There are three assignment levels within this class of positions. Appointments will be mae to Assignment Level I. After appointment, employees may be assigne to the higher assignment levels at the iscretion of the agency. HOW TO APPLY: If you believe that you meet the requirements in the "How to Qualify" section, refer to the "Require Forms" section below for the forms that you must fill out. Return all complete forms an the application fee to DCAS Applications Section, 1 Centre Street, 14th floor, New York, NY by mail only. DCAS will not accept applications in person from caniates. HOW TO QUALIFY: Eucation an Experience Requirements: By the last ay of the Application Perio you must have: 1. A baccalaureate egree from an accreite college incluing or supplemente by 18 semester creits in recreation, physical eucation, ance, fine arts, an/or applie arts (incluing therapy), an 12 semester creits in psychology, social psychology, group work, group ynamics, an/or a relate fiel; or 2. A baccalaureate egree from an accreite college an one year of full-time satisfactory experience in planning, coorinating an supervising a recreation activities program in a hospital, health care or relate facility; or 3. A satisfactory combination of eucation an/or experience equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all caniates must possess a baccalaureate egree. You are responsible for etermining whether or not you meet the qualification requirements for this examination prior to submitting your application. If you are marke "Not Qualifie," your application fee will not be refune an you will not receive a score. Meical Requirement: In accorance with applicable Feeral, state an local laws an regulations, the NYC Health an Hospitals Corporation has establishe meical stanars for this position. Accoringly, all eligibles will be require to unergo an pass a meical examination prior to the ate of appointment to ensure that those meical stanars have been met. Aitionally, eligibles will be subject to a rug screening test prior to the ate of appointment. Resiency: City resiency is not require for this position. English Requirement: You must be able to unerstan an be unerstoo in English. READ CAREFULLY AND SAVE FOR FUTURE REFERENCE

2 Exam. No. - Page 2 Proof of Ientity: Uner the Immigration Reform an Control Act of 1986, you must be able to prove your ientity an your right to obtain employment in the Unite States prior to employment with the New York City Health an Hospitals Corporation. Assignment of Duties: Section 424-a of the New York Social Services Law requires an authorize agency to inquire whether a caniate for employment with chil-care responsibilities is or has been the subject of an inicate chil abuse an maltreatment report on file with the statewie central register for chil abuse an maltreatment. State Central Register screening will be obtaine prior to consiering a caniate for employment as an Activity Therapist. Caniates who have been the subject of an inicate chil abuse an maltreatment report will not be assigne to any position which requires chil-care responsibilities. REQUIRED FORM(S): 1. Application for Examination: Make sure that you follow all instructions inclue with your application form, incluing payment of fee. Save a copy of the instructions for future reference. 2. Eucation an Experience Test Paper: Write your social security number in the box at the top right sie of the cover page, an the examination title an number in the box provie. Fill out Sections A.1, A.4, A.5, B, an D. This form must be fille out completely an in etail for you to receive your proper rating. Keep a copy of your complete Eucation an Experience Test Paper for your recors. 3. Special Insert: Write your social security number in the space provie on the form. If you wish to claim creit for course work from an accreite college towars meeting the qualification requirements for this examination, fill out section A.1. If you wish to claim aitional creit for course work from an accreite college not use to meet the qualification requirements, fill out section A.2. If you wish to claim aitional creit for a master s egree, fill out section B. If you wish to claim aitional creit for a certification, registration or professional license, fill out section C. 4. Foreign Eucation Fact Sheet (Require only if you nee creit for your foreign eucation to meet the eucation an experience requirements or to obtain aitional creit on this examination): If you were eucate outsie the Unite States, you must have your foreign eucation evaluate to etermine its equivalence to eucation obtaine in the Unite States. The services that are approve to make this evaluation are liste on the Foreign Eucation Fact Sheet inclue with your application packet. When you contact the evaluation service, you must request a "course-by-course" evaluation (incluing a "ocument-by-ocument" evaluation) of your foreign eucation. You must have one of these services submit its evaluation of your foreign eucation irectly to the Department of Citywie Aministrative Services (DCAS) no later than eight weeks from the last ate for applying for this examination. THE TEST: Your score will be etermine by an eucation an experience test. You will receive a score of 70 points for meeting the eucation an experience requirements liste above. After these requirements are met, you will receive creit up to a maximum of 100 points on the following basis: Aitional Creit: Experience: You will receive creit for a maximum of five years of experience on the following basis: 1. For full-time satisfactory experience in planning, coorinating, an conucting a recreational activities program in a hospital, clinical, health care, or relate setting, you will receive an aitional: 5 points for at least one year but less than three years of experience; or 10 points for at least three years but less than five years of experience; or 15 points for five or more years of experience. 2. For full-time satisfactory experience in assisting in the provision of recreational activities uner the irect supervision of a qualifie member of a treatment team in a hospital, clinical, health care or relate setting, you will receive an aitional: 1 point for at least one year but less than three years of experience; or 3 points for at least three years but less than five years of experience; or 5 points for five or more years of experience. You will receive a maximum of one year of experience creit for each year you worke. If you have any of the above experience on a part-time basis, it will be creite accoring to the equivalent percent of full-time experience. Each year of experience will be creite uner only one category which will be the highest appropriate category. Experience use to meet the minimum requirements cannot be use to gain aitional creit. Eucation: After the qualification requirements are met, for unergrauate an/or grauate creits complete at an accreite college in therapeutic recreation, ance therapy, music therapy, art therapy, poetry therapy, rama therapy, fine arts, performing arts, psychology, social work, vocational rehabilitation counseling, aaptive physical eucation, physical eucation, special eucation an/or early chilhoo eucation you will receive: 3 points for between 3 an 9 semester creits; or 6 points for between 10 an 19 semester creits; or 10 points for between 20 an 30 semester creits. You will receive 5 points for a master s egree from an accreite college in any of the aforementione areas. Note: Fielwork or internship courses in any of the aforementione areas will be creite only if the fiel work/internship was a separate course an not part of, or a completion requirement for, another course.

3 Exam. No. - Page 3 Certifications/Registrations/License: Aitionally, you will get 5 points for each of the below- liste Certifications/Registrations you possess: Registere Art Therapist (issue by the Art Therapy Creential Boar) Boar Certifie Art Therapist (issue by the Art Therapy Creential Boar) Certifie Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (issue by The National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification) Certifie Park an Recreation Professional (issue by the New York State Recreation an Park Society) Registere Music Therapist (issue by the National Music Therapy Registry, American Music Therapy Association) Certifie Music Therapist (issue by the National Music Therapy Registry, American Music Therapy Association ) Avance Certifie Music Therapist (issue by the National Music Therapy Registry, American Music Therapy Association) Boar Certifie Music Therapist (issue by the Certification Boar for Music Therapists) Registere Drama Therapist (issue by the National Association for Drama Therapy) Boar Certifie Trainer (issue by the National Association for Drama Therapy) Dance Therapist Registere (issue by the American Dance Therapy Association) Acaemy of Dance Therapists Registere (issue by the American Dance Therapy Association) Registere Poetry Therapist (issue by the National Association for Poetry Therapy) Certifie Poetry Therapist (issue by the National Association for Poetry Therapy) Certification in Psychorama, Sociometry an Group Psychotherapy (issue by the American Boar of Examiners in Psychorama, Sociometry an Group Psychotherapy) 10 points will be grante for possession of a Creative Arts Therapist License (issue by the New York State Eucation Department) Eucation an experience must be obtaine by the last ay of the application perio. THE TEST RESULTS: If you pass the eucation an experience test, your name will be place in final score orer on a HHC eligible list an you will be given a list number. You will be notifie by mail of your test results. If you meet all requirements an conitions, you will be consiere for appointment/promotion when your name is reache on the eligible list. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Reemployment of Public Service Retirees: HHC has promulgate rules regaring the reemployment of persons who have alreay retire from public service. Any such retire person is avise to consult with HHC Human Resources Management, Office of Certification an Examinations at (212) to etermine whether he or she woul be eligible for appointment from an eligible list establishe for this examination. Selective Certification for Foreign Language an/or American Sign Language: If you can speak Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese (Manarin), Chinese (Cantonese), Russian, Polish, Hinu, Uru an/or you know American Sign Language, you may be consiere for appointment to positions requiring this ability through a process calle Selective Certification. If you pass a qualifying test, you may be given preferre consieration for positions requiring this ability. Follow the instructions in Section D on page 4 of the Eucation an Experience Test Paper to inicate your interest in such Selective Certification. If you want to request selective certification consieration at some future ate, please submit your request by mail to DCAS Bureau of Examinations - GEEG, 1 Centre Street, 14 th floor, New York, NY Please inclue the examination number an title in your request. Application Receipt: You will be maile a receipt within three months of the last ate of the application perio. If you o not receive this item, write to this agency, Attention: Examining Service Section, 1 Centre Street, 14th floor, New York, NY to request verification that your application was receive. Inclue your social security number an the examination number an title in your request. List Termination: The eligible list resulting from this examination will be terminate one year from the ate it is establishe, unless extene by the NYC Health an Hospitals Corporation. The General Examination Regulations of the Department of Citywie Aministrative Services apply to this examination an are part of this Notice of Examination. They are poste an copies are available in the Applications Center of the Division of Citywie Personnel Services, 18 Washington Street, NY, NY. The New York City Health an Hospitals Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Title Coe No ; Activity Therapist Occupational Group For information about other exams, an your exam or list status, call Internet: nyc.gov/cas

4 Social Security : Activity Therapist (HHC), Exam No SPECIAL INSERT A.1: Work from an Accreite College Use to Meet the Qualification requirements: List below all courses taken at an accreite college in recreation, physical eucation, ance, fine arts, an/or applie arts incluing therapy being use to meet the qualification requirements: Exact Title of of Creits List below all courses taken at an accreite college in psychology, social psychology, group work, group ynamics an/or a relate fiel being use to meet the qualification requirements: Exact Title of of Creits A.2 Work from an Accreite College Use For Aitional Creit: List below all courses taken at an accreite college in therapeutic recreation, ance therapy, music therapy, art therapy, poetry therapy, rama therapy, fine arts, performing arts, psychology, social work, vocational rehabilitation counseling, aaptive physical eucation, physical eucation, special eucation an/or early chilhoo eucation being use for aitional creit: Exact Title of of Creits

5 B: this section if you are claiming aitional creit for a MASTER S DEGREE Name of Master s egree complete: Name of College/: egree complete: C: this section if you are claiming aitional creit for a CERTIFICATION, REGISTRATION OR LICENSE Certification/Registration/License Year Issue Issuing Organization 9 Registere Art Therapist 9 Boar Certifie Art Therapist 9 Certifie Therapeutic Recreation Specialist 9 Certifie Park an Recreation Professional 9 Registere Music Therapist 9 Certifie Music Therapist 9 Avance Certifie Music Therapist 9 Boar Certifie Music Therapist 9 Registere Drama Therapist 9 Boar Certifie Trainer 9 Dance Therapist Registere 9 Acaemy of Dance Therapist Registere 9 Registere Poetry Therapist 9 Certifie Poetry Therapist 9 Certification in Psychorama, Sociometry, an Group Psychotherapy 9 License Creative Arts Therapist