Activities Assistant (part-time)

Trinity Health•Palm Harbor, FL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Mary’s Meadow at Providence Place offers a unique small-house concept for long-term skilled nursing care and short-term rehabilitation services. This innovative social model provides an intimate environment with private rooms, encouraging interaction and socialization while maintaining privacy. The community is nationally recognized for its quality of care, consistently ranking among the top nursing homes in the state and receiving multiple awards for customer satisfaction. The Activities Assistant, under the direction of the Community Life Director, will assist in planning, implementing, and evaluating recreational, social, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual programs tailored to resident needs and care plans. The role involves identifying and developing solutions to enhance the resident living experience, fostering a collaborative and person-centered approach to care.

Requirements

High School Diploma or equivalent.
Valid Driver's License.
Superior customer service skills and professionalism.
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to adapt to ongoing change and work in a fast-paced, customer-driven environment.
Interpersonal and relationship building skills to work in a cross-functional team.
Ability to work with residents based on their cognitive ability.
Self-starter, highly motivated with a high productivity level.
High degree of personal accountability, responsibility, and strong decision-making abilities.
Ability to plan, organize, develop, implement, and interpret programs, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures of the organization.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience working in long-term care or with the geriatric population.

Responsibilities

Assist in the creation, planning, developing, organizing, implementing, and evaluating of the community life (activity) programs.
Interview residents or family members to obtain life history information and plan meaningful objectives and goals for the resident.
Serve as on-site community representative to involve the resident/family in planning goals.
Assist in developing a written plan of care for each resident’s community life program.
Observe resident attendance, mood, behavior, and degree of involvement to evaluate resident progress.
Assist residents to improve their daily life by promoting socialization, expanding interests, increasing physical activity, and continuing lifelong learning.
Involve the resident/family in planning community life programs and objectives/goals.
Develop and maintain good working rapport with other departments.
Assist with transportation of residents in a company vehicle.
Proactively identify solutions to resident/family concerns and make recommendations for improvement.
Participate in discharge planning, development and implementation of activity care plans and resident assessments.
Enter information and documentation accurately in Care Tracker.
Maintain equipment, supplies, and a neat and organized work area.
Attend and participate in scheduled training, in-service training, and educational classes.