Activities Director

Social Circle Nursing and Rehab is currently seeking an Activities Director.

The Activities Director is responsible for developing, implementation and supervising a full scope of activity services in the nursing home to stimulate residents to have fuller and richer lives. He / she plans individual and group activity services, both therapeutic and general, supervises activity assistants and volunteers. The Activities Director is a member of the interdisciplinary and management team of the nursing center.

• The Activities Director plans the activity services by implementing philosophies and policies of the services, writing procedures, goals and objectives for the program, and by establishing an individualized activity plan based upon each resident’s needs, interests and abilities.
• Serves as a member of the center management team; contributes to committees within the center.
• Plans programs based on the resident’s needs, interests and abilities, encourages resident involvement in activity services planning, and posts the monthly schedule of activities.
• The Activities Director documents the activity services and resident’s progress within activities. Maintains records that improve future planning, individualized approach and continual evaluation and revision; trains and oversees documentation of activity services.
• Contributes to the development of the resident care plan through the interdisciplinary team, applies the role of activity services to all identified problems, and complies with government standards for documentation.
• The Activities Director implements meaningful activity services for all residents, (including individual activity interventions) that includes implementation of creative, intellectual, physical, service, social and spiritual programs each week that provide opportunities for participation in community activities and opportunities for residents to be of service for others.
• Provides resources for the special interests of residents, whenever possible, as well as, materials for independent activity.
• While a schedule of a variety of group activities is important, flexibility in the program for spontaneous activities is also necessary.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of the activity services in terms of enhancing the quality of the resident’s life, based on goals and performance objectives of the program, and evaluations from residents, families, staff, volunteers, resource people, administration. Serves on and reports to the center Quality Improvement committee. Evaluations should be done quantitatively and qualitatively because the activity program is revised based on the results of the evaluations.
• Works efficiently and cooperatively with the administration and staff by contributing to the orientation of new staff, by participating as a team member, by interpreting goals and methods of the activity program to all staff, and by communicating information regarding the health and welfare of residents to staff.
• Should provide regularly scheduled in-service for the interdisciplinary team on the benefits and value of activity involvement.
• The Activities Director provides supervision to activity staff and volunteers to achieve delivery of quality activity services to elders residing in the site.
  
  - Participates in various center committees, plans activities to avoid conflict with treatment plans, and accepts and delegates responsibility.
• Maintains cooperative relationships with members of the residents’ families by orienting family members to activity services, by encouraging families to participate in the volunteer and activity program, and by encouraging families to evaluate and make suggestions for the activity program.
• Remains actively involved with the community, and…