Recreation Leader

St Camillus Residential Health•Syracuse, NY

6h•Onsite

About The Position

Become Rooted in Caring for Life with St. Camillus, At St. Camillus, we’re Centered on Celebrating our Employees! We are looking for a Full Time Recreation/Activities Leader to join our team! The Recreation Leader role includes completing assessments, goals and monitoring resident/patients progress. This is an excellent opportunity for an outgoing and energetic person to work in a diverse skilled nursing facility setting including short term rehab and other specialty programs. This position plans, organizes, and leads group activities and individual interventions designed to meet the recreation needs and interest of the residents. This position promotes the highest level of physical, mental, and psychosocial functioning of the residents served.

Requirements

Associate's degree in Recreation or related field (preferred but not required)
Bachelor's Degree in Therapeutic Recreation or related field (preferred but not required).
Candidate with prior years of experience in providing recreational programming to cognitively and physically impaired adults and experience working with individuals with a behavioral health diagnosis.
Working knowledge of computer skills including word and excel.

Responsibilities

Responsible for planning, organizing and leading group activities as well as maintaining statistics and
Providing individual interventions designed to meet the individual’s needs and interests.
Involves working with high functioning and cognitively impaired residents as well as persons with behavioral symptoms