Activities Aide

About the Role

Looking for an Activites Aide for our facility. Must have a positve attitude and patience with our Residents, experience preferred but not necessary, dependable, energetic, self starter, organization skills.

Activity Assistant
, you are delegated the administrative authority, responsibility, and accountability necessary for carrying out your assigned duties.

• Assist in planning, developing, organizing, implementing, and evaluating the activity programs of this facility.
• Observe resident attendance, mood, behavior, and degree of involvement so that facility activities and resident progress are evaluated, by noting, reporting, and charting resident behavior.
• Participate in community planning related to the interests of the facility and the services and needs of the resident and family.
• Participate in discharge planning, development and implementation of activity care plans and resident assessments.
• Interview residents or family members to obtain activity information.
• Involve the resident/family in planning activity programs when possible.
• Involve the resident/family in planning objectives and goals for the resident.
• Assist in arranging transportation to other facilities when necessary.
• Refer resident/families to appropriate social service personnel when the facility does not provide the services or needs of the resident.
• Assume the authority, responsibility, and accountability of Activity Assistant.
• Coordinate activities with other departments as necessary.
• Keep abreast of economic conditions/situations and recommend to the Activity Director adjustments in activity programs that assure the continued ability to provide daily activities.
• Assist in developing, implementing, and maintaining an ongoing quality assurance program for the activity department.
• Participate in facility surveys (inspections) made by authorized government agencies as necessary or as may be directed.
• Ensure that all charted activity progress notes are informative and descriptive of the services provided and indicate the resident’s response to the service.
• Arrange transportation for field trips when necessary.
• Perform administrative requirements, such as completing necessary forms, reports, etc., and submitting such to the Activity Director as required.
• Agree not to disclose assigned user  and password for accessing resident/facility information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Administrator.
• Agree not to disclose resident’s protected health information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Administrator.
• Report any known or suspected unauthorized attempt to access facility’s information system.
• Others as deemed necessary and appropriate, or as may be directed by the Activity Director.