Weekend Activities Coordinator PRN

Perimeter Healthcare; Jackson, Northern (TN, KY); Hybrid; USD 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Perimeter Healthcare is seeking an Activities Coordinator to provide services within the activity program for patients/residents, meeting social, recreational, physical, educational and spiritual needs to support dignity and maximum functioning.

The role involves assessing interests, planning diverse activities, documenting progress, coordinating calendars, and collaborating with staff to maintain a safe, engaging environment for at-risk youth in our care settings.

Qualifications

• Must be at least twenty-one (21) years of age or older.
• High School diploma or GED; 1 year experience in children services or residential setting preferred; college hours can substitute.
• Valid State Driver's License with appropriate endorsements.

Responsibilities

• Assess and reassess patients'/residents' activity interests, needs and concerns through observation and conversations.
• Write progress notes accurately and timely per standards/regulations.
• Record coding changes and other information promptly.
• Plan and select activities with creativity and variety.
• Coordinate unplanned event changes and notify departments as needed.
• Plan calendar with age-appropriate activities in groups or one-to-one settings.
• Assist patients/residents to participate in activities.
• Adapt activities to maximize independence and functioning.
• Collaborate with other Activity staff and disciplines to ensure safe, least-restrictive environment.

Skills

Active planning

Observation skills

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

High School diploma or GED

1 year in children's services or residential setting

Valid State Driver's License

Job description

The Activities Coordinator is primarily responsible for providing services to the activity program to meet the patients’/residents’ social, recreational, physical, educational and spiritual needs by using meaningful activity. The Activity Programs are used to enable the patients/residents to function and maintain their dignity and fullest mental and physical capacity for as long as possible. These programs are also used to enhance the patient’s/resident’s feelings of usefulness and encourage self-confidence, self-respect, and empowerment.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Appropriately assess and re-assess the patients’/residents’ activity interests, needs and concerns through observation, conversation, and with written information.
• Write patient/resident progress notes accurately, neatly and in a timely manner, and in accordance with facility and departmental documentation standards/regulations.
• Record patient/resident codings/changes and other necessary information accurately and promptly.
• Plan/choose patient/resident activities with creativity and variety.
• Assist with writing unplanned events or changes to scheduled events on appropriate calendars/notices. Notify other departments/nursing units as necessary.
• Plans the calendar with appropriate, age-related patient/resident activities both in large and small groups or using one-to-one treatments. Emphasis, should be placed on activities the resident is interested in.
• Assist patients/residentsto perform or participate in activities.
• Adapt the activity so that the patient/resident can be successful as possible with the least amount of help and yet maintain the resident’s highest functioning capabilities.
• Work with other Activity staff and other disciplines in a cooperative manner to foster the most appropriate safe and least restrictive environment for the patient/resident.

Qualifications:

• Mustbe at least twenty-one (21) years of age or older
• High School diploma or GED. One (1) year experience working in a children's services program or in a residential setting is preferred. A minimum of two years of college education with at least 12 semester (18 quarter) hours in the social sciences may be substituted for one year of work experience.
• Valid State Driver's License with appropriate Endorsements

Physical Demands:

• This position requires the staff person to stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk and hear. The staff person must also be able to occasionally lift and/or move 50 lbs. Specific vision abilities are required for this position due to the supervision that includes close, distant and peripheral vision, color and depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. Also, as a bona fide job requirement, the staff person must also be able to perform a physical restraint on a student using the authorized technique designated by the program and only as a last resort for protection from harm to self or others.

Work Environment:

• The students in this program are termed "At Risk" youth who have been exposed to either the legal or social service system. During the performance of one’s duties, a staff person may be asked inappropriate questions, displays of socially inappropriate behaviors, the use of profanity and sexually explicit language. These students may have a history of violent or assaultive behaviors that could be demonstrated during their stay here. Staff persons may be exposed to racial slurs, derogatory comments, sexually suggestive phrases or threats of physical harm from students toward either staff or their families. There will be occasions when staff will be exposed to the elements of nature.

Note: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; an employee will also perform reasonably related responsibilities as assigned. This organization reserves the right to review or change job duties as need arises. This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

To learn more about the company, please visit our website at: https://www.perimeterhealthcare.com

Perimeter Healthcare is one of the leading behavioral health care providers in the country for children, adolescents, adults, and senior adults. We deliver hope to our patients through the delivery of comprehensive and dedicated treatment programs. Our focus and commitment on service excellence is available across several states and in different care settings. Our team ensures our patients receive the required care that they or their loved one needs. We offer several programs for our patients including inpatient acute treatment and residential treatment. We are seeking staff who exhibit daily the following values: C- Compassion A- Accountability R – Respect and E- Empowerment.

EEO

We are committed to providing an environment of diversity and inclusion where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and fellow employees. Perimeter Behavioral Health is an equal opportunity employer regarding all recruitment, training, and selection process within the company regarding race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, and gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.