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About the Role
This non-technical role involves assisting in the planning and execution of leisure time activities for patients in a residential health care facility. The position supports the activities program through routine tasks, including preparing supplies, organizing events, and maintaining simple records. Incumbents receive on-the-job training and work under the direct supervision of a senior activities program employee.
Responsibilities
- Assists patients in craft projects and other leisure time activities
- Prepares equipment, supplies, and facilities for special entertainment, individual, and/or group activities
- Assists in organizing and participating in games and other forms of leisure time activities
- Attends and participates in the facility’s in-service training program
- Aids with arrangements for movies, picnics, theme days, and other events
- Aids in inventory, cleaning, and storage of activities supplies and equipment
- Maintains simple records and reports
- Visits patients/residents and provides company and conversation
- Aids in the preparation and serving of refreshments during activities programs
- Distributes birthday gifts, cakes, cards, and other personal items for various occasions
- Assists with assessment of patients’/residents’ interests
- Assists with development of the leisure time activities program schedules
- Transports patients to stores, movies, sporting events, etc.
- Lifts and helps move patients, per the resident care plan, if C.N.A certification is held
- Assists in toileting and feeding residents during functions/programs, per the resident care plan, if C.N.A certification is held
Requirements
- Possession of an appropriate New York State Driver’s License is required at the time of appointment if the position requires transportation of patients/residents
Skills
- Working knowledge of basic arts, crafts, games, sports, hobbies, and other appropriate leisure time activities
- Ability to stimulate and maintain patients’/residents’ participation and interest in the leisure time activities program
- Ability to understand the problems and attitudes of ill, aged, and handicapped persons and their relation to participation in a leisure time activities program
- Ability to work with volunteers
- Ability to maintain simple records and reports
- Physical condition commensurate with the demands of the position
Work Type
- Full-time
Education Level
- None is required
Salary/Compensations
- $16.69—$21.73 USD