Activities Care Partner
Activities Care Partner
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Job Description
The Forest at Duke recently opened our newlyconstructed state of the art spacious 90bed Health Center. Utilizing the Small House concept the new Health Center features nine small houses that support varying levels of care within our established continuum: Assisted Living Memory Care and Skilled Nursing.
The Activities Care Partner assists in implementing and evaluating a program of lifeenriching activities that is based on an ongoing assessment of residents individual needs ability levels and interests. They work in work in collaboration with the house care partner team to manage the residents environment including cooking dining service laundry and housekeeping and basic (noncertified) resident care.
Schedule: FullTime 40 hours a week some weekends required
Key Responsibilities:
- Assists in designing and implementing a balanced schedule of individual and group activities for health service residents based upon the therapeutic recreation plans that have been developed for each resident.
- Assists in planning a diversified goaloriented therapeutic activities program which will contribute to the achievement of meaningful measurable goals that have been adapted to the ability levels of each participant and is structured to maximize the therapeutic benefits to the participants.
- Uses community resources encourages patient/resident community involvement and participation on trips.
- Participates in cooking housekeeping activities and basic (noncertified) resident care in partnership with the house care team.
Key Requirements:
- High School diploma or equivalent preferred
- At least one year of related experience in healthcare setting preferred
- Must be able to understand and communicate orally in English.
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- Must complete North Carolina Food Handler Class within the first 90 days of employment.
The Forest provides:
- A beautiful campus and work environment filled with friendly people.
- Competitive pay based on experience plus shift differentials.
- Low cost/high benefit health insurance coverage (major medical FSA vision dental).
- Excellent life and disability insurance coverage paid 100 by The Forest.
- 403B retirement plan with an outstanding 7 company match.
- Generous paid sick and vacation time.
- Employee wellness and recognition programs to reward great work and provide work/life balance.
We want to hear from you! Please complete our online application now for prompt consideration
The Forest at Duke is proud to provide equal employment opportunity without regard to racecolor religion sex gender (including gender identity and gender expression) national originsexual orientation pregnancy marital status disability genetic information age veteran statusor any other class of unique or protected character.
Employment Type
Full Time
