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About the Role
Work directly with residents providing acceptance, friendliness, and compassion. Activity programs are based on the tenant’s interests, strengths, and needs, in an atmosphere of warmth, success, and encouragement.
Responsibilities
- Provide personal contact with residents allowing them to feel successful; that their life has a purpose and to continue to pursue their interests and use their remaining abilities.
- Planning, preparing and facilitating activities that meet the resident’s mental, physical, emotional, social and community needs.
- Perform miscellaneous functions that emerge daily with kindness, willingness, and spontaneity.
- Serve as an example of excellence in meeting work requirements.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Basic activity course (a willingness to take this course)
- Attend all on-going activity training
- Good physical and mental health
- Ability to maintain outgoing, cheerful, enthusiastic personality
- Have efficient time management skills
- Effective communication skills
- Ability to work with others in close proximity
- Self-motivated, work independently
- Ability to contribute to a friendly, homelike atmosphere
- Have knowledge of various activities and be familiar with tenant’s limitations
- Ability to read, write, and follow directions
- Ability to speak clearly, and to make self-understood to residents of varying abilities
- Ability to think creatively, plan and problem solve
- Ability to prepare, present, and evaluate activity
- Possess good phone etiquette
- Record keeping ability
- Ability to cope with frequent interruptions
- Ability to vary and adapt activities to tenant ability levels and needs
- Ability to quickly come up with alternative activity plans
- Ability to cope with depressed or lonely people
- Ability to prepare activities with variety, fun, and purpose
- Ability to deal with residents with dementia
- Occasional lifting weights 10-20 pounds
- Frequent walking, twisting, standing, bending/stooping, pushing/pulling
- Occasional squatting, kneeling, sitting and reaching above the shoulder
- Report for and leave work on a timely basis, completing tasks as scheduled
- Attend in-services and all necessary training
- Participate in annual performance evaluation process
- Maintain a professional conduct and pleasant, friendly attitude towards staff, residents and visitors
- Be willing to learn and change to meet needs that arise
Skills
- Musical/performance ability desirable
- Computer work as required
Location
- Bethesda
Work Type
- Full-Time
Education Level
- High school diploma or equivalent
Benefits
- Health Insurance through Nice and Proximal
- Dental & Vision Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- 401(k) with up to a 6% employer match
- Health Savings Account (HSA)