Director of Life Enrichment

National Church Residences•Columbus, OH

10d•Onsite

About The Position

According to prescribed policies and procedures including all applicable state, federal and accreditation regulations and under the supervision of the Administrator, assumes responsibilities for managing, planning and executing all resident life enrichment activities in the facility. In Mid-Market IL Communities: Assumes responsibility for coordinating programs and services to help residents maintain a good quality of life and age in place prioritizing a person-centric model of service delivery.

Requirements

Completed high school education or equivalent.
Certified in activities programming as specified in regulations
Three -Five years of working with the elderly required.
Minimum 1 year mgt exp.
Must have good communication, comprehension, and interpersonal skills.
Must have the ability to speak, read, write and understand English.
Must have working knowledge of Windows, Microsoft Office Suite, and World Wide Web.
Activities Certification as required by state compliance.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Alzheimer’s and dementia preferred.
Minimum of 2 years of experience in a social service delivery with elderly and/or people with disabilities.

Responsibilities

Schedules and develops life enrichment activities to suit the needs of the residents collaborating with other facilities/departments and home office support teams to ensure optimal resident experience.
Organizes educational events that include subjects relating to health care, agency support, life skills and referral sources.
Promotes participation and links eligible participants to events in the sprit of assisting residents to age in place.
Creates and maintains monthly, daily activities calendar using preferred communication methods such as facility bulletin boards and electronic resident engagement platforms.
Contributes to and/or writes the facility newsletter and other communications.
In Mid-Market IL Communities: serves as a liaison to community agencies, networking with community service providers and seeking out new services available to eligible individuals.
Identifies partners and maintains a Resource Directory of local service providers to assist with coordinating services for residents on an individual basis through a person-centered, non-clinical assessment, intervention and monitoring process.
Assesses residents for appropriate life enrichment activities for group, independent and one-to-one.
Makes timely submissions of assessments and other required paperwork for MDS where applicable.
Ensures appropriate staffing levels.
Manages the recruiting, interviewing, counseling, supervising and termination procedures of all employees and volunteers.
Leads activities on scheduled work days.
Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the assigned departments within constraints of prescribed budgetary guidelines to include accurate and timely payroll submission, HR, A/P, A/R, and billing procedures.
Attends facility/team meetings.
Participates in on-call, weekend manager programs as required.
Demonstrates and maintains a positive, professional manner, manages time efficiently and effectively, provides leadership as a role model to promote a team approach, collaborates and participates in policy creation and appropriate problem-solving methods.
Must adhere to all policies, procedures, terms and conditions set forth in the National Church Residences’ Employee Information Guide (EIG), the Code of Conduct, as well as any facility handbook, including but not limited to, corporate compliance, drug free workplace, safe work practices, all federal, state, local regulations and laws.
With respect to Resident Rights, ensures all care is provided with respect and dignity for the residents/clients, their families and the staff.
Reports all complaints made by residents/clients and/or families to the appropriate supervisors, reports all allegations of abuse, misappropriation of funds/resident property and/or any other corporate compliance, drug free workplace, safe work practices, all federal, state and local regulations and laws.
Completes all annual education requirements timely, including but not limited to Compliance, Privacy, Security and HIPAA training and exhibits behavior as set forth by the Code of Conduct in the performance of their duties.
Performs other duties as assigned.