Activites Assistant

Ensign Services•Littleton, CO

About The Position

The Activities Assistant helps plan, implement, supervise, and evaluate recreational, social, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual programs in accordance with residents’ assessments and care plans. The role involves encouraging resident participation, providing materials and assistance for activities, visiting and conversing with residents, and supporting residents’ self-esteem and engagement. The assistant also participates in assessments, care planning, discharge planning, documentation, facility surveys, training, and administrative tasks as assigned. Duties are performed in accordance with established policies and procedures and the facility’s core values.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
No experience required; on-the-job training is provided.
Provide evidence of being free of tuberculosis infection upon hire and as required by facility policy.
Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English.
Ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant.
Ability to deal tactfully with personnel, residents, family members, visitors, government agencies or personnel, and the general public.
Patience, tact, a cheerful disposition, enthusiasm, and willingness to handle difficult residents.
Ability to follow written and oral instructions.
Adequate sight and hearing, or prosthetics that enable these senses to function adequately for the position.
Ability to operate a computer, cellular telephone, and facility telephone and paging systems.
Ability to assist with resident evacuation during emergencies.

Responsibilities

Assist in planning, developing, organizing, implementing, supervising, and evaluating the facility’s activity programs.
Observe residents’ attendance, mood, behavior, and involvement; note, report, and chart behavior to help evaluate activities and resident progress.
Encourage residents to participate in activities and provide necessary materials and assistance with crafts and projects.
Make routine visits to residents and converse with them to encourage self-esteem.
Conduct individual or group re-motivation and reality-orientation sessions.
Participate in discharge planning, activity care plan development and implementation, and resident assessments.
Assist in developing and implementing a written plan of care for each resident and support adherence to it.
Interview and involve residents and family members when gathering activity information and planning resident objectives and goals.
Participate in facility surveys conducted by authorized government agencies as necessary.
Complete informative and descriptive activity progress notes that document services provided and resident responses.
Complete required forms and reports and submit them to the Activity Director.
Participate in required facility and company training, in-services, and conferences.
Assist with recommendations for department equipment and supplies and help move or arrange them to prepare activity areas.
Transport or escort residents to and from activities and external trips.
Perform other tasks as necessary and as directed by the Activities Supervisor.