Activities/Life Enrichment Director

Iris Senior Living • Dallas, TX

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Iris Memory Care of Turtle Creek is looking for a full-time Life Enrichment Director. Must be open to working one weekend day a week. This position is responsible for engaging our residents in leisure activities that are of interest to them! Our residents need assistance to socialize, complete crafts, dance, sing, cook recipes, garden, accompany on excursions, and to be involved in and complete life enriching activities both that are scheduled monthly and some that are impromptu. This is an incredibly fun, rewarding, and important job for the right person!! We are a small, freestanding memory care assisted living community in downtown Dallas, near I35E and Dallas North Tollway off of Oaklawn Avenue. We have a small campus with a total of 44 residents. As a community focused on memory care, all of our residents are coping with Alzheimer's or other form of dementia. We are an age-in-place community, so you will care for residents all throughout the spectrum of the disease. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in a memory care setting. This is a full-time position. Benefits available include:

Requirements

• Feel at home working with and building relationships with the elderly
• Performing life enriching activities daily
• Solid history of reliability
• Willingness to learn
• Well-rounded, balanced, and productive team player
• Mature
• Patient
• Creative
• Nurturing
• Compassionate personality
• Lots of energy
• Ability to closely follow direction
• Strong organizational skills
• Some weekend availability

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with dementia
• Experience in a memory care setting

Responsibilities

• Engaging residents in leisure activities
• Assisting residents to socialize
• Assisting residents to complete crafts
• Assisting residents to dance
• Assisting residents to sing
• Assisting residents to cook recipes
• Assisting residents to garden
• Accompanying residents on excursions
• Involving residents in life enriching activities

Benefits

• Free meals
• Free uniform shirts
• Direct deposit
• Health insurance
• Dental and vision
• PTO
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life and disability insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees