Spring Hills Senior Communities wants YOU! Come and introduce yourself to us today we want to meet you and give you the opportunity to #LiveHappy. EEO

We offer competitive pay and comprehensive benefits:

• Flexible Schedules
• Medical Plan
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plans
• 401k Match
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Incentive Bonuses
• 100% Paid Life Insurance
• Vacation Hours
• Sick/Personal Days
• Associate Appreciation Program
• Premium Holiday Pay
• Continuous Education Available
• Cell Phone, Train & Retailer Discounts
• Volunteering Benefits

Position Summary: Provides recreational care services to the residents in the Spring Cottage Memory Care. Uses and recognizes individual abilities, strengths, and competencies in planning recreational services.

Essential Functions:

• Conducts the daily scheduled activities and programming
• Engages residents in activities by effectively modeling the desired outcome.
• Encourages resident participation based on the behavior modeled.
• Assists in planning, scheduling, and coordinating the monthly Spring Cottage calendar and newsletter.
• Completes daily participation log for each resident.
• Manages and creates resident social clubs.
• Communicates regularly with Spring Cottage interdisciplinary team and DRS to review the on-going progress and implementation of the Spring Cottage Program standards.
• Participates in Quality of Life committee to review care and service issues relevant to residents and staff.
• Assists with Spring Cottage resident pre-move in and move in procedures as assigned, which may include: pre-care conference, completion of the resident biography, SC Recreational Assessment.
• Collaborates with DRC to organize, promote, & attend the monthly family support group as assigned.
• Trains and mentors care team and volunteers on how to effectively conduct activities.
• Escorts residents on activities away from the community as assigned. Must drive community bus.
• Maintains Work Life Access areas and redesigns based on resident population.
• Job Description – Spring Cottage Recreation Care Coordinator 05/11
• Maintains necessary and appropriate activity supplies for Spring Cottage.
• Accesses, reviews, and updates residents’ individual service plans.
• Provides emotional and social support to residents.

Non-Essential Functions:

• Attends all required trainings, in-services, staff meetings, and continued education seminars.
• Strives to maintain a safe working environment through the prevention of accidents, the preservation of equipment, and the achievement of safe working practices.
• Maintains positive and professional demeanor & communication toward residents, visitors, families, and co-workers.
• Adheres to all policies and procedures of Spring Hills, LLC
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Skills:

• Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Instructing - Teaching others how to do something.
• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Creativity – Finds new ways to make things interesting and fun or to solve problems.

Attributes:

• Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Extent Flexibility - The ability to bend, stretches, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
• Speech Recognition - The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
• Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Speech Clarity - The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
• Information Ordering - The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Fluency of Ideas - The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
• Flexibility – The ability to recognize and respond to the needs of others even when it interferes with planned events.

Qualifications/Skills/Educational Requirements:

An Associate’s degree or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school; or six months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience, a passion to serve people with dementia; computer business software skills, valid (state) drivers license; basic knowledge and understanding of dementia.

Physical Requirements:

Standing (over 2/3), walking (over 2/3), using hands to finger, handle or feel (over 2/3), reach with hands and arms (over 2/3), climb and balance (over 1/3), stoop, kneel (1/2-2/3), talk or hear (Over 2/3), taste or smell (Over 1/3). Lifting up to 10 pounds (over 2/3), Up to 25 pounds (1/3-2/3); Up to 50 pounds (under 1/3)