Activities Coordinator – Brain Injury Services

Woods Services•Middletown Township, PA

20h•Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for daily operation of the InSPIRE Program, a structured day program for individuals with acquired brain injuries. The program coordinator will provide leisure and recreational activities as well as creative arts & music, facilitating participation of Members to achieve their maximum potential. Plans, implements and monitors service delivery and ensures high quality services and compliance with regulation and standard practices.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Recreation/Art/Music Therapy or related Human Services field.
Proficient in Microsoft Office (especially Word, Excel, Publisher, and Power Point)
Articulate, creative, outgoing individual with strong organization and communication skills (written and oral), capable of working with varied personalities.
Valid driver’s license: must pass Smith Training and Woods Goshen.
Demonstrate the ability to physically lift/transfer a minimum of 50 pounds
Must complete Chapters 1-12 of ACBIS training within 1st year of employment.

Nice To Haves

Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist.
Experience in creative arts, music, adaptive sports, and/or recreation therapy with adults with acquired brain injury.
Must complete Chapters 1-24 of ACBIS training and pass CBIS Certification test and maintain certification within 1st year of employment.
Experience in creative arts, music, adaptive sports, and/or recreation therapy.
Brain Injury Experience.
Able to lift and transfer a minimum of 50 pounds, be agile, physically pursue clients on foot, bend, squat, reach, push up and stand for several hours at a time.

Responsibilities

Develops creative social group activities that promote social skills training, sensory/motor development, and reduction/elimination of maladaptive behavior. Evaluates skills necessary for performing those activities, and breaks activities down into components that each Member can perform.
Utilizes cognitive, behavioral, and physical rehabilitation techniques as well as task analysis in doing group facilitation.
Determines the need for environmental modifications, adaptive equipment and compensatory strategies including assistive technology and assists in obtaining and implementing these adaptations with emphasis on Members being able to maximize their performance.
Responsible for the weekly monitoring and documentation of Members’ activities in the Clubhouse.
Schedules and implements new cultural, athletic, educational and therapeutic performances, workshops and activities that meet the needs and interests of all Members. Facilitates community relations, partnerships, and program support for the implementation of activities for Members.
Provides brain injury skills training, assistance and/or supervision to Members in the areas of daily living, personal care, social integration, and community assimilation utilizing compensatory strategies developed by the Transdisciplinary Rehab Team.
Assures that therapeutic goals and objectives will be designed to promote community reintegration, teaching concepts such as task completion, problem solving, safety, and money management, in accordance with the Member’s RSP.
Directs Life Skill Trainers (LST’s) and 1:1 Personal Care Aides (1:1 PCA’s) to provide support to Members and group facilitation assistance as needed.
Ensures compliance with applicable standards and service definitions: Woods, Beechwood NeuroRehab, DOL, DHS, and CARF standards.
Attends and participates in Transdisciplinary Team Meetings for assigned Members, including ITCs, RSPs, PRCs.
Attends and participates in required training sessions, staff meetings, and special assignments as required. Assists in program evaluation and program development activities to make the program best meet the needs of the Members.
Performs other duties as assigned.