Activity Director

Vista Senior Living Management is the dedicated senior living division of our organization, focused exclusively on the operation and growth of senior living communities. With more than 30 communities across multiple states, we specialize in Assisted Living, Memory Care, and Independent Living. Our mission is to provide outstanding care rooted in compassion, humility, accountability, and a genuine commitment to the well-being of our residents.

We strive to create communities where residents receive personalized support, families have confidence in their care, and team members are empowered to succeed.

Eden Vista Greendale is an industry-leading assisted living community in the heart of Greendale, WI. Our campus allows each resident to enjoy life to the fullest with the peace of mind that our care team is always there to support them when needed. We cultivate a culture and home-like environment to attract the best healthcare professionals to ensure that each resident is treated like family.

Position: Activity Director

Responsible to plan, organize, and implement a program of therapeutic activities designed to meet the social, spiritual, intellectual, emotional, educational, and physical needs and interests of residents in accordance with the comprehensive resident care plan.

Every effort has been made to make your job description as complete as possible. However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or is a logical assignment to the position.

• Know and respect residents’ rights.
• Ensures all protected health information is kept confidential.
• Reports all complaints made by residents to supervisor
• Reports allegations of resident abuse, neglect, and/or misappropriation of resident property.

• Follows established safety policies and procedures.
• Ensures potential safety/health hazards are eliminated.
• Wear and/or use safety equipment and supplies when indicated and properly trained to use.
• Demonstrates job-specific knowledge of fire and disaster preparedness during drills or actual situations.

• Attends and participates in scheduled in-service training, educational classes, and meetings to maintain current certification as applicable and managed by regulatory agencies and company policies.
• Attends and participates in in-service training as mandated by regulatory agencies and company policy.
• Participates in the QAA process as needed.

• Develops and delivers therapeutic recreational services to promote the residents’ opportunities for engaging in normal life enhancement pursuits and to increase and/or maintain functioning levels.
• Completes a monthly calendar of available recreational services and posts it in the center.
• Plans community activities that jointly include the community, staff, families, and residents.
• Completes an Activity Assessment within 14 days of admission;
  Attends and participates in Resident Care Plan Meetings;
  Reviews/documents residents progress regularly according to center policy.
• Assures physician approval for involvement in recreational services; maintains precautions/limitations list on each resident.
• Charts individual resident’s attendance and participation in group, individual and one-on-one recreational pursuits daily.
• Provides residents with opportunities and support for involvement in group and individual leisure pursuits (i.e., arts/crafts, community outings, religious activities, intellectual/educational activities, community/center services activities) based upon individual interested and…