AL Activities Assistant - Part Time

Watercrest Senior Living•Palm Beach Gardens, FL

12h•Onsite

About The Position

Watercrest Palm Beach Gardens is looking for a creative and engaging Assisted Living Activities Assistant to join their team! The perfect fit for our team would be an enthusiastic team player who thrives off promoting resident movement, interaction, and wellbeing through participating and planning daily activities and outings! Let your gifts and talents shine as you implement Watercrest's signature programming, Live Exhilarated, a "framework that goes beyond the traditional to deliver the extraordinary".

Requirements

Able to communicate effectively with all levels of management, team members, residents, family members, vendors, referral sources and outside contacts
Able to make independent decisions
Must be able to communicate in a warm, friendly and caring manner
Must possess a passion to work with and around senior citizens
High School Graduate or equivalent

Nice To Haves

Experience in senior living preferred

Responsibilities

Attends outings with the residents
Participates in celebrating resident events accomplishments: birthdays, anniversaries, etc.
Participates and helps to engage residents in a variety of activities and programs such as: intellectual, cognitive, physical, spiritual, social, recreational, creative, reminiscence, life work, life experiences, cultural, outdoor / nature, inter-generational, male or female oriented, and educational
Assist with the development of the Community Program calendar and newsletter
Recommends and helps in ordering supplies that are needed for programs
Assist with developing, implementing, and maintaining an ongoing quality assurance program for the Community Program department
Ensures the proper use of equipment and supplies are up to par with cleaning and safety standards
Attend and participate in educational classes, on-the-job training programs, and orientation as scheduled or requested
Respond in a timely manner to requests of residents, families and guests
Must in company uniform and resident ready at all times.