Therapeutic Recreation Assistant

** Part Time - 20 hours per week **

1pm - 5pm OR 1:30pm - 5:30pm Monday - Friday ONLY!

Masonic Villages of Pennsylvania - Elizabethtown Campus - is immediately hiring a Part Time Therapeutic Recreation Assistant.

With over 145 years of providing award-winning care and services across the state of PA, Masonic Villages is driven by our Mission of Love to assist individuals in realizing their potential and enjoying the highest possible quality of life.

Why Choose Masonic Villages:

Each campus is supported by corporate leaders who are fully invested in our Mission of Love and hiring like-minded individuals who are committed to providing heartfelt customer service and contributing to our team environment. When you join our team you can expect:

• Industry-leading benefits that start day one such as $0 cost medical coverage option ***
• Vacation Time/Flex Time and Paid Holidays ***
• Option for pay in lieu of benefits.
• Pay on-demand. Access up to $500 of your earned wages in real-time.
• Unlimited Referral Bonuses of up to $1,000 per referral
• Tuition and Educational Reimbursement
• Discounts for onsite Daycare
• Free Gym and Pool Membership
• Paid Lunch ***
• Discounted Grocery gift cards
• Discounted tickets for movies, theme parks, hotels, and MORE!
• Shoe discounts
• Cell phone discounts
• Weekend bonuses and additional shift bonuses!
• Employer matched Retirement Savings with free financial planning
• A commitment to growing our leaders, with at least 50% of our leadership positions being filled internally

Key: *** = Full Time & Part Time Staff Only

As a Therapeutic Recreation Assistant, you will carry out our Mission of Love by providing a comprehensive recreation program designed to eliminate boredom, helplessness, loneliness, and meet the individual interests of the residents who reside on the memory care neighborhoods in the Masonic Health Care Center. Assure that the approach and implementation of the service will meet the mission of the department, organization, and established standards or regulations.

Our Therapeutic Recreation Assistant is responsible for the following:

• Demonstrates knowledge of DHS state regulations.
• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the Recreation Service/Leisure Ability Model
• Demonstrates knowledge and displays the ability to develop, implement, and evaluate programming to maintain the resident's physical, social, cognitive, emotional and spiritual functioning.
• Provides services ranging from diversional activities, to therapeutic activities and individual visits; all focused on meeting the residents' needs, their recreation interests and preferences.
• Assist residents to engage in their leisure interests and preferences.
• Demonstrates and displays the ability to use both verbal and written communication skills to share their evaluation of a resident via attendance and participation records.
• Demonstrates and displays the ability to work with Recreation Therapist to create and maintain a monthly neighborhood calendar.
• Manage and balance a neighborhood Therapeutic Recreation budget for programming and crafts.
• Actions, approaches, decisions and the delivery of Therapeutic Recreation Services focus on the individual resident.

What You Have:

• At least 1 year of experience with recreation programming in long term care
• At least 1 year of experience working with residents who have dementia
• Strong written, oral, organization and basic computer skills
• Valid Pennsylvania driver's license

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Learn more about working at Masonic Villages of PA at our careers page: http://masonicvillages.org/careers/