What are the responsibilities and job description for the Activity Assistant position at Orwigsburg Nursing and Rehabilitation Center?
Orwigsburg Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, located in Glen Mills, PA is seeking to hire an enthusiastic and innovative Activities Assistant to join our team!
Full Time day shift
Must be flexible to work some evenings and weekend
The Perks:
Full Time day shift
Must be flexible to work some evenings and weekend
The Perks:
- Your chance to work for a fun and supportive team that truly values you!
- Monthly employee appreciation activities
- Management is friendly, caring, and approachable
- Tuition assistance offered to qualified staff
- We offer short term rehabilitative services and long-term nursing care
- We provide exemplary customer service and top-quality care
- We are committed to team-oriented outcomes and quality care
- We embrace a person-centered care approach to ensure quality of life
- We show value and respect to our employees by offering opportunities for career advancement and promotion from within
- Have experience working in recreation
- Long-term care experience preferred
- Possess a passion for working with and having impactful interaction with seniors
- Are creative, compassionate, patient, and willing to go the extra mile
- Have effective communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills
- Have experience in long-term care or physical rehabilitative setting
- Possess a positive attitude
- Treat each resident with care, compassion, dignity, and respect
- Embrace our person-centered care approach to meet each resident’s needs and preferences
- Helps resident maintain their highest level of functioning by presenting appropriate activity programs according to resident’s physical capacity, cognitive ability and interest
- Invites and encourages resident participation and assists in transporting
- Accompanies residents outside facility to participate in community events
- Create decorations, up set necessary equipment, create various crafts, and award pries
- Assist in planning, layout and distribution of monthly activity calendar
- Assist in scheduling movies, planning parties and providing games/activities for residents
- Supervise and lead activities as necessary
- Create decorations, setup necessary equipment, create various crafts, and award pries
- Attend and contribute to resident Care Plan Meetings
- Participate in Quality Assurance programs and facility committees/programs
- Health & Dental Insurance
- Generous paid time off (PTO)
- Paid holidays
- Continuous professional and clinical training
- Awards and recognition programs
- Tuition reimbursement
- Must have experience in recreation with long term care experience being preferred
- Ability to perform physical tasks required in skilled nursing