Activities Assistant

Resident Life Experience Associate

About Garden Spot Village

Garden Spot Village has evolved into a community that thrives on purpose opportunity and living life to its fullest. While others in our market space talk about seniors and retirement here we talk about people and opportunity. Our heritage mission and core values play a fundamental role as they ground us in the present and shape our future.

Discover Garden Spots benefits and how you can experienceLife with Purpose

• Health insurance
• 401K program with company match
• Tuition assistance
• First-timehomebuyer program
• $16/hr

This position assists the Resident Life Experience Coordinator by supporting planned events and supporting opportunities for residents who live in skilled nursing households. This position supports the resident life team and takes direction from the coordinators.

What Youll Do

• Observes infection control procedures related to the Resident Life Experience team.
• Assists as needed with conducting MDS interviews as well as GSC Life Experience form.
• Participates in resident care plan meetings as needed.
• Participates in nursing restorative and rehabilitative programs as requested.
• Plans and implements programs for individual group and 1:1 events based on residents choice and needs.
• Assists with trips and outings.
• Enters documentation (groups and one-on-ones) in PointClickCare.
• Supervises and directs volunteers involved in assisting with programs.
• Assist residents during mealtimes with eating as requested (must take the Helping Hands class prior to assisting)
• Accepts assigned duties in a cooperative manner.
• Comes to work in clean neat attire and consistently presents an appropriate professional appearance.
• Comes to work as scheduled and consistently demonstrate dependability and punctuality.
• Consistently works cooperatively with residents residents representatives facility staff physicians consultants and ancillary service providers.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

What Were Looking For

• Be dependable as well as trustworthy.
• Possess patience and have a heart for helping aged adults maintain a quality of life
• Possess flexibility in work assignments and schedules.
• Demonstrate effective communication skills (both oral and written).
• Be adaptable change directions quickly when the need arises.
• Possess some creativity.
• Have the ability to motivate others.
• Able to work independently or with a team.
• Possess some computer skills.
• Enjoy working with older adults who have varying degrees of physical and/or memory impairment.

Additional Information

This position is part-time (16-20 hours/biweekely). Scheduled hours will be 4:00pm-8:00pm with every other weekend!

Garden Spot Communities is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all team members. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age disability genetic information or veteran status.