Activities Coordinator

Cedar Sinai Park; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Cedar Sinai Park in Portland, OR seeks a Life Enrichment Coordinator to design and implement engaging programs that enrich the social, physical, intellectual, cultural, and spiritual wellbeing of residents. This creative role requires initiative to plan activities daily and collaborate with the clinical team.

You will lead events outside the facility when appropriate, advise residents on wellness goals, and foster a positive environment through thoughtful programming, while ensuring safety and

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• 1–3 years’ similar experience working with activities and life enrichment.
• CPR/AED and First Aid certification required.
• Food Handler’s Card required.
• Current Oregon or Washington driver’s license required.

Responsibilities

• Create a positive culture through effective programming and events.
• Serve as an advisor that encourages elders to set new wellness goals and engage with programming.
• Plan, implement, and facilitate activities that take place outside the facility while ensuring participant safety.

Skills

Program development

Elder care

Creativity

Communication

Self-motivation

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

CPR/AED and First Aid certification

Food Handler’s Card

Driver’s license

Tools

Outlook

Word

Excel

Job description

Summary

Responsible for encouraging and facilitating the most practical and enriching lives possible for our elders. The Life Enrichment Coordinator allows for social, physical, intellectual, cultural and spiritual needs to be met by each resident. This highly creative position requires self-motivation to implement programs and activities on a day-to-day basis

Essential Functions

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

• Create a positive culture through effective programming and events. Collectively facilitates programs while working in partnership with Life Enrichment colleagues.
• Act as an advisor that encourages elders to set new goals in all dimensions of wellness and engage with programming. Serves as the liaison to the clinical team effectively communicating on elder’s health and wellbeing.
• Responsible for planning, implementing, and facilitating activities that take place outside the facility while ensuring the safety of the participants.

Required Skills/Abilities

Consistent execution of quality customer service. Maintains and demonstrates ethical conduct. Able to effectively communicate with geriatric and/or confused residents and a variety of other people such as family members, visitors, vendors, Private Duty Residents, and staff. Positive and constructive attitude. Self-reliant, creative, good problem solver, results-oriented. Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel preferred. General knowledge of psychological/medical terminology preferred. General knowledge of Jewish cultural and religious traditions a plus.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position has no supervision responsibilities.

Working Environment & Physical Demands

This position is required to regularly work on campus.

Works in a well-lit and well-ventilated facility. May be exposed to confused, belligerent or physically aggressive residents, may be exposed to contagious diseases and mental stress. Subject to frequent interruptions. Manual dexterity, good vision and hearing is required. Hours of work can be irregular with seasonal highs and lows in the program.

Physical Demands

Physical Demands:

TASK

WEIGHT

DISTANCE

FREQUENCY

• Moderate Lifting
• 15-40#
• 0-15 x day
• Light Lifting
• 0-15#
• 0-20 x day
• Moderate Carrying
• 15-40#
• 0-350 ft
• 0-10 x day
• Light Carrying
• 0-15#
• 0-350 ft
• 0-20 x day
• Reaching Above Shoulder
• 0-10#
• 0-20 x day
• Pushing Wheelchairs
• 100-280#
• 0-350 ft
• 0-5 x hour
• Repeated Bending/Squatting
• 0-70 x day
• Walking/Sitting
• 0-8 hours x day

Required Education, Experience, Licenses, and Certifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• 1 – 3 years’ similar experience working with activities and life enrichment for adults required.
• Familiarity with electronic clinical records systems preferred.
• Experience in medical business office, electronic billing methods, accounting standards for adjustments and refunds and cash posting preferred.
• CPR/AED and First Aid certification required.
• Food Handler’s Card required.
• Current Oregon or Washington driver’s license required.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time or without notice.