Lead Activities Assistant

Position Details

Job Title

Lead Activities Assistant

Job Type

Full-Time

Location

Skilled Nursing Facility

Salary

$ $32.40 per hour

Job Description

Provides small and large group activities designed to meet the needs and interests of each resident and which include social activities, indoor and outdoor activities, activities away from the facility, religious programs, creative activities, educational activities and exercise activities. Provides assistance with documentation of social activities. Interviews the resident, documents, keeps up the quarterly charting and at times assists with social activities. Supervises Activities staff daily assignments and completes their annual evaluations.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Provides direction for recreational, social and spiritual activities for the facility residents.
• Interviews the residents, completes section on Minimum Data Sets, documents, maintains quarterly charting timely and at times assists with activities.
• Supervises Activities staff and provides direction on daily assignments.
• Completes Activities staff evaluations on a timely basis.
• Notifies appropriate licensed personnel when patient complains of pain.
• Fills out and completes the Resident Profile and Activities Program Information Sheet within 72 hours of admission.
• Chooses a specific activity plan for each resident.
• Maintains programs designed to make life more meaningful, to stimulate and support physical and mental capabilities to the fullest extent and to enable the resident to maintain the highest attainable social, physical and emotional functioning.
• Completes the interdisciplinary care plan.
• Reevaluates the care plan and the specific activity plan quarterly and documents findings in the interdisciplinary progress notes.
• Assists with bus outing activities and gets consents from residents or relatives.
• Assists with activities when needed. Makes room visits, holds conversations with residents, prays with them, reassures them and gives moral support where necessary.
• Treats residents and their families with respect and dignity. Identifies and addresses psychosocial, cultural, ethnic and religious/spiritual needs of residents and their families.
• Keeps current list of all residents, and current list of new admissions.
• Is responsible to see that the attending physician approves in writing the activity plan for each resident, so that the plan does not conflict with the treatment plan.
• Participates in policy and procedure formation as a member of the facility management Performance Improvement team.
• Attends weekly meetings of the facility management team.
• Maintains a written planned schedule of social and other purposeful independent or group activities.
• Plans and conducts inservice training for the staff of the facility at least annually.
• Coordinates the activity schedule with other resident services.
• Maintains a current list of residents who are unable physically to participate in activities.
• Develops and implements activities for residents unable to leave their rooms.
• Posts the activity schedule with other resident services.
• Oversees maintenance of equipment and supplies.
• Develops and maintains contact with community agencies and organizations.
• Assures that progress notes specific to the resident's activity plan are recorded at least quarterly, and more frequently if needed, in the resident's health record.
• Maintains a current record of the type and frequency of activities provided and the names of residents participating in each activity.
• Is able to assist residents with activities; is compassionate and understanding and is able to listen and converse with older people.
• Performs all aspects of patient care in an environment that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors.
• Trains, supervises and directs activity leaders, assistants and volunteers who assist with and augment the services of the activity program.
• Exhibits genuine interest in and appreciation of adults in the later years of life.

Qualifications & Skills

• Two (2) years experience in a social or recreational program within the past five (5) years, one (1) of which was full time in a resident activities program in a healthcare setting.
• State of California Activities Director certificate for healthcare workers must be completed within 6-months of hire. Must maintain certificate requirements of Title 22.
• State of California qualified Occupational Therapist, Art Therapist, Music Therapist, Dance Therapist or Occupational Therapist Assistant (or equivalent by experience) preferred.
• May have additional qualifications that would enhance job performance, such as certification or licensing as CNA, LPN/LVN, RN or degrees in recreational, social or occupational work.
• Is able to work as an interdisciplinary team member.
• Able to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Basic computer knowledge.

Salary : $32