Part Time Recreation Aide

With wages starting at $17.00/hour and increasing from there with confirmed verifiable experience Recreation Aides at Oaknoll play a vital role in improving and stimulating the mental and physical abilities of our residents as well as contributing to their overall engagement and quality of life! Oaknoll is a not-for-profit community that provides resident-centered care and services through our CREATE culture.

CREATE is an acronym for our values: caring respect enthusiasm awareness teamwork and encouragement. We believe that people should experience joyful active and connected lives as they age. We believe people should have the opportunity to receive competent caring and compassionate health care when they need it. We believe our community is both special and unique because of the people who live here the people who work here and the relationships that they build together. We strive to make the lives of our residents and our staff meaningful and fulfilling. If you want to share in these values and the relationships that they allow us to build we are looking for YOU!

Oaknoll is currently seeking a part-time Recreation Aide to join our recreation team. Exact hours may vary and will include afternoons holidays and weekends. The ideal candidate will be outgoing energetic passionate about working with seniors and willing to take initiative to engage residents with recreational opportunities. Experience working with people with dementia preferred.

Supervised by our Recreation Therapist the Recreation Aide will:

• Lead daily activities including exercises trivia cooking etc.
• Plan and implement one-on-one activities as directed.
• Assist with preparation of monthly activity calendars.
• Document resident participation in department records.

Why choose Oaknoll Not only are we a community focused not-for-profit but we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: competitive pay paid time off retirement plan with company contributions 40% off employee meals free use of our gyms and pool weekly access to a Nurse Practitioner free of charge onsite parking tuition reimbursement scholarship program and student loan repayment assistance along with medical dental vision life FSAs and voluntary short-term and long-term disability insurances for eligible employees.

Come check us out and see if Oaknoll is right for you!

About Oaknoll

Oaknoll Retirement Residence is an independent not-for-profit continuing care retirement community in Iowa City IA. We provide resident-centered service driven by our values of caring respect enthusiasm awareness teamwork and encouragement. Were proud of our excellent reputation as a premier place to live and work. Theres a strong sense of family at Oaknoll so coming to work is like coming home.

Oaknoll Retirement Residence is an Equal Opportunity Employer that welcomes and encourages all applicants to apply regardless of age race sex religion color national origin disability veteran status sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression or other reason prohibited by law.