What are the responsibilities and job description for the Intern position at METHODIST RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES?
With a 60-year history of success, MRC has retirement communities throughout Texas, with over 1000 employees and growing! A financially strong non-profit, MRC is solely focused on transforming the aging experience through innovation and heart! This internship will be an 8-week program housed on one of the MRC campuses and may include additional visits to other MRC campuses as well. The campus will be a provider of senior housing and healthcare including retirement apartments/cottages, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing care. The intern will be immersed in the daily operations of the campus.
Areas of learning will include:
- Accounting, Business Office, Budgeting, Financial Statement Review
- Human Resources including recruitment, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, performance review, discipline, employee benefits, wage planning, scheduling, etc.
- Marketing, Sales, and Admissions including strategy and processes.
- Dining services including menu planning, staffing and resident satisfaction.
- Healthcare Services including skilled nursing care, assisted living and memory care. This will include all functions of a health care setting such as licensure and certification, resident care and programming.
- Resident engagement opportunities such as planning and executing events, social services, and learning the philosophies of the Eden Alternative and how it is applied.
- Physical plant and environmental services including building maintenance, housekeeping services, and capital improvements.
- Spiritual care learning the aspects of a faith-based business including the role of the Chaplain.
- Pursuing a B.S. B.A. or B.B.A. in healthcare, business, management, sociology or mass communications and be classified as Junior or Senior
- Interest in working with older adults in a mission driven setting
- Communicates professionally, respectfully and tactfully in all situations
- Ability to speak and write effectively
- Dependable and punctual
- Models an attitude of service toward others, is friendly and courteous