Activities Staff

Pleasant Point Senior Living; Racine (WI); On-site; USD 28,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Pleasant Point Senior Living is seeking an Activities Assistant to join our team of dedicated professionals who aim to make a difference in residents' lives, their families, and the community.

The role supports the Activities Director in planning and leading a diverse calendar of events and activities, encourages resident participation, and handles related administrative tasks. It emphasizes energetic, empathetic interaction and meaningful community involvement.

Qualifications

• Energetic, personable and imaginative.
• Effective oral and written communication.
• Knowledge of aging's physical and emotional aspects.

Responsibilities

• Participates with the Activities Director in creating a multi-faceted daily/monthly calendar.
• Leads activities and encourages resident participation.
• Assists with designated administrative tasks such as posting calendars and updating sign-up sheets.
• Promotes resident participation in activities and events.
• Transports residents to functions using company vehicles, if applicable.
• Supports residents who lead activities to foster pride.

Skills

Energetic

Communication

Empathy

Teamwork

Job description

Pleasant Point Senior Living community is currently seeking an Activities Assistant to join our team of dedicated professionals who want to make a difference in the lives of our residents, their families, and our community.

We are guided by our CAPLICO Core Values: Celebration Accountability Passion for Learning Love One Another Intelligent Risk Taking Customer Second (Employee First!) Ownership.

About the Opportunity

• Participates with the Activities Director in creating a multi-faceted daily/monthly calendar that is appropriate for all care levels and includes events that encourage resident individuality, participation, and leadership.
• Assists the Activities Director in leading activities and encourages resident participation.
• Assists with designated administrative tasks.
• Participates in the creation, planning and implementation of activities to meet the interests of all residents.
• Contributes to the creation of the daily/monthly activities calendar.
• Continually promotes and encourages resident participation in activities and events.
• Leads activities and conducts programs in a timely manner.
• Continually promotes and encourages resident participation in activities and events.
• Seeks to find the motivation in each resident that will entice them to participate or be an active member in activities/events.
• Helps to provide opportunities for residents to engage in various community projects in the surrounding community.
• Assists with designated administrative tasks such as posting daily calendars, maintaining and updating resident sign-up sheets, ordering supplies, etc.
• Supports/encourages residents who lead various activities to promote a sense of pride.
• If applicable, transports residents to various functions using company vehicles.

Critical Success Factors

• Is energetic, personable, enthusiastic, creative and imaginative.
• Able to communicate intentions and directions to residents and staff and be an effective, empathetic listener.
• Demonstrates effective oral and written language skills.
• Possesses knowledge of the physical and emotional aspects of aging.
• Ability to motivate and positively influence residents.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

The Pennant Group, Inc. is a holding company of independent operating subsidiaries that provide healthcare services through home health and hospice agencies and senior living communities located throughout the US. Each of these businesses is operated by a separate, independent operating subsidiary that has its own management, employees and assets. More information about The Pennant Group, Inc. is available at http://www.pennantgroup.com. PSL is the most progressive company in the exploding healthcare services field today. Dedicated to restoring public confidence in the healthcare industry, PSL has assembled a team of highly competent, dedicated and caring individuals who are creating a new standard of excellence for healthcare providers everywhere. PSL currently serves over 50 long-term care, facilities in six Western states. These facilities have no corporate headquarters or traditional management hierarchy. Instead, they operate independently with support from the "Service Center," a world-class service team that provides the centralized clinical, legal, risk management, HR, training, accounting, IT and other resources necessary to allow on-site leaders and caregivers to focus squarely on day-to-day care and business issues in their individual facilities. As an organization, we are deeply committed to our mission of providing life-changing service to our residents, employees and the communities we serve.