Activities Coordinator

InnovAge; California (MO); On-site; USD 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

InnovAge is seeking an Activities Coordinator to supervise daily activities for groups of elderly participants. Responsibilities include planning activities tailored to individual needs, coordinating with a multidisciplinary team, and ensuring safety and infection control during sessions.

The role requires experience in geriatric care, a high school diploma or GED, and BCLS certification. Prefers candidates with bachelor’s degrees in related fields and bilingual abilities.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of care experience with frail and cognitively impaired elderly
• High school diploma or GED required
• BCLS certification required or ability to obtain upon employment

Responsibilities

• Supervise structured daylong activities for a group of elderly
• Plan and implement activities based on participant needs and abilities
• Monitor participants' physical and mental functioning during activities
• Ensure safety and infection control practices
• Document participant care and coordinate with the team

Skills

Care experience

Education

High school diploma or GED

Bachelor’s degree in gerontology

Bachelor’s degree in recreation

Bachelor’s degree in social services

Bachelor’s degree in nursing

Bachelor’s degree in rehabilitation

Job description

Job Description

Job Description

Responsibilities

The Activities Coordinator is responsible for the supervision of structured daylong activities for a group of elderly. The Coordinator’s plan and implement activities for groups, based on individual participant needs, interests, abilities, and strengths. Physical attendance at an InnovAge facility and/or an InnovAge participant home is essential to performing the job duties.

• Assists in the initial assessment of participants’ ability to manage particular group’s dynamics based on observation and evaluation.
• Prepares goals and care plans for each participant in assigned group with input from multi-disciplinary team.
• Assesses abilities and changing needs of participants and group activities accordingly.
• Monitors participants’ physical and mental level of functioning, as well as the ability to maintain role in activities.
• Establishes appropriate goals for each individual participant.
• Assumes responsibility for safety needs of each participant within group.
• Provides personal care to participants.
• Responds to participants and caregivers with sensitivity and positive empathy.
• Verbalizes, demonstrates and implements in daily room practice, an understanding of infection control in relation to hand washing techniques, disease prevention, food handling and disposal of soiled articles.
• Refers back to team established plan of consistently implementing own role in participant care.
• Clearly documents participant care.
• Monitors and supervises work assignments for Assistant Activity Coordinators, Certified Nursing Assistants, Senior Companions, volunteers and students.
• Monitors assistant and volunteer staff’s ability to manage group interaction.
• Participates in the development and implementation of Quality Assurance activities.
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge relating to geriatric care and/or activities.

REQUIRED

• 2+ years in a care setting for the frail and cognitively impaired elderly
• High School Diploma or GED
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) card or the ability to obtain upon employment

PREFERRED

• Bachelor’s degree in gerontology, recreation, social services, nursing, rehabilitation
• Bi-lingual-Spanish, Russian, Punjabi or Hmong