Activities Assistant

OVERVIEW:

Assist in scheduling, organizing and facilitating activities to meet the residents’ creative, social, physical,

spiritual, and emotional needs. Adapts activities to suit resident and incorporate them into overall

resident care routines and objectives

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Planning and facilitating daily, weekly, and monthly events to encourage socialization, relaxation, and recreation.

• Implementing activities that accommodate those with special needs.

• Handling logistics to make the event possible, such as making phone calls, advertising, managing inventory and budgets, training and motivating volunteers or employees, and coordinating transportation.

• Observing participants at events to gauge their enjoyment and obtain their feedback to improve events.

• Keeping records regarding event planning resources, participant interest, and other notable information, such as injuries or behavioral incidents.

• Reporting medical concerns or observations.

• Ensuring that events are well-provisioned, event staff is trained and prepared, and that the event takes place on time and within budget.

• Providing participants with instructions for the event.

• Adhering to and enforcing all safety procedures.

QUALIFICATIONS:

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE:

• High School Diploma and certain certifications may be required.

• More education or experience with nursing, recreational activities, event planning, or related may be preferred.

• Physical fitness, ability to walk, dance, stand, lift, or meet other physical demands.

• Adaptability and strong organization and time management skills.

• Excellent resource management, computer, record keeping, interpersonal, decision making, and verbal and written communication skills.

• Patience and compassion when dealing with others, especially those who are sick, injured, elderly, or from different backgrounds.

• Flexibility to work when needed, especially evenings, weekends, or early mornings.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• This job operates in a health care setting. This role requires regular walking to various locations around the care center.

• Incumbent may be exposed to virus, disease and infection from patients and specimens in working environment.

• Incumbent may be required to work extended periods of time at a video display terminal.

• Incumbent may experience traumatic situations, including psychiatric, and deceased patients.

• Works beyond normal working hours and on weekends and holidays when necessary

• Must be able to stay or return to facility during emergency conditions

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus

• This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift or move objects and patients weighing over 50 pounds.