Resident Life & Enrichment Director

SNF Healthcare; Towson (MD); On-site; USD 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

SNF Healthcare is seeking an Activities Director to develop and implement recreational services to improve residents' quality of life. This leadership role reports to the Administrator and oversees the activities team.

You will assess residents, design multifaceted activities, and coordinate in-room programs, outings, and staff training while ensuring cultural and religious needs are respected and calendars reflect resident rights and preferences.

Qualifications

• Two years' experience in a social or recreational program within the last 5 years, health care setting preferred

Responsibilities

• Completes assessments, MDS, care plans and gathers information to design activities that are multi-faceted, meet patients’ functional levels, and reflects needs and interests of each patient.
• Provides patients who are confined or chose to remain in their rooms with in-room activities in keeping with life-long interests, (music, reading, visits with individuals who share their interests or reasonable attempts to connect the patient with such individuals) and in-room projects they can work on individually.
• Assists with escorting patients to and from daily activities.
• Travels on outings with the residents.
• Provides orientation, training and responsibilities to the staff of the activities department.
• Maintains sufficient activity supplies.
• Coordinates Resident Council.
• Posts monthly activities calendars that reflect the schedules, choices and rights of the patients; offers activities at hours convenient to the patients; reflects the cultural and religious interests of the resident population; appeals to both men and women and all age groups living in the facility.
• Must be creative and hard working, have a passion to love and have patience with the elderly.

Job description

SNF Healthcare is seeking an Activities Director to develop and implement recreational services to improve residents' quality of life. This leadership role reports to the Administrator and oversees the activities team.

You will assess residents, design multifaceted activities, and coordinate in-room programs, outings, and staff training while ensuring cultural and religious needs are respected and calendars reflect resident rights and preferences.