Activity Assistant
About The Position
The Activity Assistant plans, coordinates, and implements daily activities under the direction of the Villa Activities Coordinator, with attention to participants’ individual needs and interests. The role supports memory-impaired residents and works collaboratively with Villa services and staff to provide group and individual activities. Programs should offer sensory experiences, group interaction, personal achievement, decision-making, participation in planning, and opportunities for responsibility and independence. The assistant evaluates participants’ backgrounds, interests, abilities, limitations, and needs to help develop individual activity programs, documents those programs and participants’ attendance and responses, and helps maintain schedules, records, supplies, and inventory. The position also includes safe supervision of participants, participation in staff meetings, and working within the departmental budget. Candidates must clear DOJ and FBI fingerprint checks and a drug screen.
Requirements
- Ability to organize, teach, supervise, and orient.
- Willingness to accept consultant direction and assume responsibility.
- Interest in and understanding of the needs of older adults and people who are chronically ill or disabled.
- Computer literacy, including creating documents and sending and responding to email.
- Ability to clear fingerprint checks through the DOJ and FBI and pass a drug screen.
- Ability to frequently push and pull objects under 20 pounds and occasionally push or pull objects up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to occasionally lift and carry objects weighing less than 50 pounds.
- Ability to frequently perform moderately difficult manipulative tasks such as typing and keyboarding, and simple tasks such as standing, walking, stooping, and filing.
- Ability to frequently identify objects visually at a distance of 15 feet and occasionally read fine print.
- Ability to distinguish normal sounds amid some background noise and speak clearly enough to be understood.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with adult and child activities.
- Activities certificate.
Responsibilities
- Help develop and implement activities suited to memory-impaired residents’ needs and abilities and compliant with State and Federal regulations.
- Coordinate programs with Villa services and staff, and lead group and individual activities.
- Develop activities that provide sensory input, group interaction, and opportunities for personal achievement.
- Include activities that encourage participants to make decisions, help plan, and exercise responsibility and independence.
- Help develop a weekly activities schedule in coordination with the Activity Coordinator.
- Evaluate participants’ backgrounds, interests, abilities, physical and mental limitations, and needs as the basis for individual activity programs.
- Document individual activity programs using the appropriate forms.
- Maintain records of residents’ attendance, participation, and responses to activities.
- Develop methods for implementing programs within the departmental budget.
- Attend and participate in staff meetings.
- Help order supplies and maintain program inventory.
- Safely supervise participants and help keep the group harmonious and engaged.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the Activity Coordinator.
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Same-day pay available.
- Flexible vacation time: 17 days.
- Paid sick time.
- Education reimbursement up to $3,000 a year.
- Qualified Public Student Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) employer.
- 403(b) with employer match.
- Child care available.
- Employee referral bonuses.
- Upward mobility.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
