Activities Assistant

Job Details

Job Location:

Bellevue, WA 98007

Salary Range: $19.00 - $23.00 Hourly Activities Assistant - Skilled Nursing Facility

Join our dedicated Activities team in creating meaningful experiences that support the physical, cognitive, emotional, and psychosocial well-being of our residents. The Activities Assistant plays an important role in helping residents maintain their interests, routines, independence, self-esteem, and connection with others while promoting a welcoming, engaging, and homelike environment.

The Activities Assistant provides and supports individual and group activities based on each resident’s interests, preferences, abilities, cultural and religious background, customary routines, and comprehensive care plan. This position works closely with the Activity Director and interdisciplinary care team to ensure residents have opportunities for meaningful engagement and participation.

Activities may include social, recreational, cognitive, creative, physical, educational, spiritual, and therapeutic programs, as well as individualized activities for residents who are bed-bound, room-confined, or have cognitive or physical limitations.

Reporting:
This position reports directly to the Activity Director.

FLSA Status:
Non-Exempt

• Assist with gathering information from assigned residents to support completion and updating of activity assessments and individualized activity plans of care.
• Communicate resident preferences, interests, concerns, customary routines, choices, and activity needs to the Activity Director and other appropriate members of the care team.
• Provide and facilitate individual and group activities that are appropriate to each resident’s functional abilities, needs, interests, and preferences.
• Support activities that promote residents’ physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and psychosocial well-being.
• Incorporate residents’ lifelong interests, hobbies, cultural traditions, religious interests, and personal preferences into activity programming whenever possible.
• Provide meaningful one-on-one activities for residents who are bed-bound, room-confined, or otherwise unable to participate in group activities.
• Visit residents in their rooms and provide appropriate activities such as music, reading, conversation, crafts, games, personal projects, visits with people who share similar interests, and other individualized programs.
• Assist residents with activities as needed while encouraging independence, participation, choice, and self-esteem.
• Adapt activities to accommodate residents with varying cognitive, physical, sensory, and functional abilities.
• Use appropriate techniques such as task segmentation, verbal prompts, demonstrations, set-up assistance, and physical assistance to encourage resident participation.
• Observe resident responses and participation during activities and communicate relevant observations or changes to the Activity Director and appropriate caregivers.
• Assist the Activity Director with developing and maintaining monthly activity calendars.
• Post activity calendars on resident units and distribute calendars or activity information to residents as directed.
• Encourage residents to participate in scheduled activities while respecting each resident’s right to choose whether or not to participate.
• Assist with social dining programs and other resident-centered socialization activities.
• Help create an environment that is welcoming, comfortable, engaging, and consistent with a homelike atmosphere.
• Maintain activity rooms and designated activity areas in a clean, organized, safe, and inviting condition.
• Properly organize, store, maintain, and inventory activity equipment, materials, supplies, games, crafts, books, and other program resources.
• Ensure…