Activities Assistant

Life Care Centers of America; Kailua (HI); On-site; USD 23,000 - 25,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

PTO

Job summary

Life Care Centers of America is seeking an Activities Assistant in Kailua, Hawaii. This part-time role supports the Director of Activities by planning, organizing, and directing engaging activities that meet patients' recreational, physical, intellectual, spiritual, and social needs while adhering to all relevant laws and Life Care standards.

Qualifications include a high school graduate or equivalent and preferred experience with geriatrics.

Qualifications

• High school graduate or equivalent
• Prior experience with geriatrics preferred

Responsibilities

• Assist in planning and evaluating quality activity programs
• Chart patient progress and behavior
• Escort patients to activities
• Visit patients in their rooms to engage participation
• Provide excellent customer service with a positive attitude
• Assist in evacuation of patients
• Demonstrate sound judgment
• Collaborate on interdisciplinary team
• Move, stand, walk, and assist with mobility as needed
• Read, write, speak, and understand English

Skills

Driver's license

Independent decision making

Regulatory knowledge

Education

High school graduate or equivalent

Job description

Employment Status: Part-Time Pay Interval: Hourly Pay Rate Maximum: 18 Pay Rate Minimum: 17 Shift: All

Part Time

We have Excellent Benefits Health, Vision ,Dental and PTO for Full Time and Part Time associates.

All part-time and full-time associates will earn PTO from their date of hire and are able to utilize them after successful completion of a 90 day probationary period. Accruals are based on all hours worked, which includes regular and overtime hours. PTO Benefits are hours earned that can be used for vacation days, sick days, personal days off, or holidays and you can cash out up to 40 hours per paycheck.

Position Summary

The Activities Assistant assists the Director of Activities in planning, organizing, developing, and directing quality activities for patients, ensuring that the recreational, physical, intellectual, spiritual, and social needs of each patient is met in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations, and Life Care standards.

Education, Experience, and Licensure Requirements

• High school graduate or equivalent
• Prior experience with geriatrics preferred

Specific Job Requirements

• Valid driver’s license in current State with satisfactory driving record per Life Care standards
• Demonstrated proficiency in arts/crafts/music is preferred
• Possess the ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant such action
• Knowledgeable of practices and procedures as well as the laws, regulations, and guidelines governing functions in the post acute care facility
• Ability to implement and interpret the programs, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures of the department
• Perform proficiently in all competency areas including but not limited to: patient rights, and safety and sanitation
• Maintains professional working relationships with all associates, vendors, etc.
• Maintains confidentiality of all proprietary and/or confidential information
• Understand and follow company policies including harassment and compliance procedures
• Displays integrity and professionalism by adhering to Life Care’sCode of Conductand completes mandatoryCode of Conductand other appropriate compliance training

Essential Functions

• Assist in planning, developing, organizing, implementing, and evaluating quality activity programs (includes entertainment, exercise, relaxation, and education)
• Appropriately and descriptively chart patient progress and behavior
• Escort patients to and from activities
• Make regular in room visits to patients uninterested or unable to participate in group activities
• Exhibit excellent customer service and a positive attitude towards patients
• Assist in the evacuation of patients
• Concentrate and use reasoning skills and good judgment
• Communicate and function productively on an interdisciplinary team
• Sit, stand, bend, lift, push, pull, stoop, walk, reach, and move intermittently during working hours
• Read, write, speak, and understand the English language