Activities Assistant

Oceanview Nursing & Rehabilitation Center; New York (NY); Presencial; USD 40.000 - 52.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Oceanview Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in New York seeks an Activities Leader to work Wednesday through Sunday 9am-4:30pm, including holidays, to collaborate with the interdisciplinary team and implement the activities program for residents.

You will lead and assist with decorating, planning events, reviewing quality indicators and engaging residents in meaningful activities, while maintaining confidentiality and supporting staff.

Formación

• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds.
• Ability to stand, walk, climb steps and participate in activities with residents.
• Experience coordinating recreational programs in a senior care setting is preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Assist Activities Program Director in implementing a team-driven activities schedule.
• Decorate environments for holidays and events using safe methods.
• Review quality indicators and care plans for accuracy and engagement.
• Inform leadership of changes in cognition or engagement affecting participation.
• Contribute ideas to activities and update care plans as needed.
• Engage residents in activities and coordinate with nursing and support staff.

Conocimientos

Teamwork

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Communication

Mentoring

Descripción del empleo

Position Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 9am-4:30pm Including Holidays

Primary Objectives

• Activities Leader reports and is directed by the Activities Program Director.

• The Activities Leader shall work with the interdisciplinary team in order to implement goals of the Activities Department.

• The activity staff offers every resident who is able, meaningful activities that meet their individual leisure, spiritual and emotional needs.

• Activities Assistant implement basic activities program, by individualizes special interest recreational events according to resident preferences of community routines (as scheduled by Activities Program Director).

• Activities program shall be generic to meet age appropriate, social, skills, interests, entertainment, religious and psychosocial needs dependent upon the demographic make-up of the Oceanview population.

• New and creative planning shall keep resident participation in activities, games, parties and entertaining events to the best of the resident ability.

• Shares (by posting or announcing at the Resident Council Meeting) programs on a monthly calendar, so that residents may anticipate, look forward to and be available to go.

• Residents in an active recreational program will remain cognitively intact and less likely to isolate themselves from others.

Special Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; uses hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, talk, hear and smell.

• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds.

• Knowledgeable about the activity’s programs in a Skilled Nursing Facility.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

• Requires frequent heavy lifting, walking, bending, reaching.

• Potential exposure to high level stimuli, e.g.- multiple simultaneous interactions, telephones, of equipment noise.

• Occasionally exposed to communicable diseases, unpleasant sights and odor.

• May include working some evening and/or nightshifts, weekends and holidays.

• Occasionally the employee may be exposes to the community environment (e.g.- smokers, going to stores, malls or other day trips) and the presenting weather.

Responsibilities

• Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Assisting Activities Program Director in implementing a team driven scheduled activity program that will promote mental, physical and holistic health and well-being for our residents.

• Decorates (using safe and ergonomically effective methods including use of step stool) environment to match holidays, parties or functions.

• Participates in reviewing quality indicators/ quality measures for accuracy and care planning appropriateness that was assigned by the Activities Program Director.

• Informs Activities Program Director when a change in mentation, cognition, engagement or any physical altercation that might impede resident participation and engagement.

• Contributes ideas about resident activities and participation to Activities Program Director for implementation, alterations to comprehensive care plans or updates with significant change or when no longer needed.

• Human Resources functions include:

• Mentoring and showing new recreations candidate’s protocols and methods utilized.

• Keeps all information regarding residents, employees and HPN confidential, privileged and private.

• Attends all mandatory education on orientation and annually thereafter.

• Acts as a role model for other recreational assistants.

• Attends and contributes at activity staff departmental quarterly meetings (can offer new, creative, holiday event information that shall increase staff ability, motivation and service)

• Has good attendance and is timely.

• Can act independently when Activities Director is not present.

• Implements the activity program by:

  • Following the activities schedule

  • Introducing new residents to others and seating them near residents whom they can relate to.

  • Inviting and assisting residents to and from programs (morning/ afternoon)

  • Creating self-motivating activity opportunities for those residents younger that 65 years.

  • Participating and engaging residents, who are unable to come to therapies, in their rooms.

  • Involving the nursing staff in room activities (such as TV time, radio availability)

  • Encouraging family/resident designated others to visit (and keep involved)

  • Prepared equipment and other materials before scheduled activities and then cleans up.

  • Leads recreational programs.

  • Engages other residents when money is being distributed or clothing/shoe store is visiting.

  • Participates in talking, conducting and collecting satisfaction surveys.

  • Familiar with all forms used by the activity’s director.

• Resident observations, evaluations, reporting and recording:

  • Inform Activities Program Director, when visitor recreational recommendations for their loved ones.

  • Records daily attendance and notifies Activities Program Director when usual residents don’t attend, only few residents attend or residents express dislike or boredom of program.

  • Returns residents to unit (informs nursing supervisor) when resident needs personal care (hygiene or toileting), rest or medications (pain complaint/where/why).

  • Alerts the Activities Program Director, if, resident is unable to engage in event offered.

  • Resident tolerance to activities progress is communicated with Activities Program Director and noted.

• Acts and an interdisciplinary team member

  • Assists nursing with resident transport to-and- from activities.

  • Teaches interdisciplinary staff what simple bedside activities to activate (e.g.- radios, TV, phone calls, visits from family, newspaper requests, books/magazines, etc., as some activities