What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Recreation Worker position at Lighthouse Guild and Careers?
Lighthouse Guild is the leading not-for-profit healthcare organization dedicated to addressing and preventing vision loss. Our mission is to provide exceptional services that inspire people who are visually impaired to attain their goals. Our vision is a world in which no person is limited by their visual capacity. GuildCare, Lighthouse Guild’s innovative community-based Adult Day Health Care Program providing services to adults who are blind or visually impaired and have chronic health care needs is seeking an Assistant Recreation Worker for its Manhattan location.
Responsibilities:
- Leads/assists in recreational activity groups including but not limited to arts and crafts, physical activities, games, trips and outings, parties, concerts and special events, and discussion groups.
- Assists with the creation of the monthly calendar.
- Assists, as needed, in maintaining supplies and equipment, obtaining needed supplies.
- Assists as needed in organizing and scheduling program activities.
- Completes all required records and reports on a timely basis.
- Attends all required staff meetings and conferences.
- Along with all other GuildCare staff, performs general assistance tasks on a regular basis as assigned by program director. These include escorting registrants throughout the space, including to and from the restroom, assisting with transportation, serving meals, cleaning up from meals as needed, and filling in for absent coworkers.
- Works with other team members to foster interdisciplinary understanding, cooperation and a unified treatment approach.
- Observes and implements the Registrant’s Bill of Rights.
- Responsible for maintaining the privacy of registrant protected health information.
- Responsible for following the LGI Workforce security policy; will access information systems and ePHI authorized by Clinical Authorization only.
Qualifications:
AA degree plus one year experience, or high school graduate with minimum of three years’ experience leading recreational activities independently.
We offer a very competitive salary and benefit package. Convenient Upper West Side location.
Benefits:
- 403 (b)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Agency Website: https://www.lighthouseguild.org/
Equal Opportunity Employer
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Salary : $72,139