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Therapeutic Activity Assistant - Part-time
Hours are 8:30am - 4pm, Friday - Sunday
Franke Tobey Jones, a beautiful, historic retirement community in North Tacoma (by Pt. Defiance) is seeking a Therapeutic Activity Assistant.
Our Therapeutic Activity Assistants provide a valuable service for our residents, which directly increases the quality of their retirement years. Working closely with other Activities personnel, the Assistant plans, facilitates and documents a wide variety of large and small group activities that promote physical, spiritual, cognitive, social, and emotional health. They also provide 1 to 1 individual activities for those residents who generally do not benefit from group activities.
The ideal applicant strives for high quality standards, is friendly, energetic, creative, enjoys interacting with our residents, and seeks to help others in a meaningful way. We are looking for someone with experience leading activities -- ideally with an elderly population, basic computer skills (Word, Excel, Outlook), a WA driver's license in good standing and dementia and mental health training certification is highly desired for this position although not required.