Activities Assistant

We are seeking a motivated and caring Activities Assistant to join our team at Nemasket Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in Middleborough, MA. As a vital member of our activity team, you will play a key role in planning, organizing, and directing quality activities for our patients, ensuring their recreational, physical, intellectual, spiritual, and social needs are met.

• Assist the Director of Activities in planning, developing, and directing quality activities for patients
• Implement and interpret programs, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures of the department
• Perform proficiently in all competency areas, including patient rights, safety, and sanitation
• Maintain professional working relationships with all employees, vendors, etc.
• Maintain confidentiality of proprietary and confidential information
• Understand and follow company policies, including harassment and compliance procedures

• Assist in planning, developing, organizing, implementing, and evaluating quality activity programs
• Chart patient progress and behavior accurately and descriptively
• Escort patients to and from activities
• Make regular in-room visits to patients uninterested or unable to participate in group activities
• Exhibit excellent customer service and a positive attitude towards patients
• Assist in the evacuation of patients
• Demonstrate dependable, regular attendance
• Concentrate and use reasoning skills and good judgment
• Communicate and function productively on an interdisciplinary team
• Sit, stand, bend, lift, push, pull, stoop, walk, reach, and move intermittently during working hours
• Read, write, speak, and understand the English language

• Prior experience with geriatrics preferred
• Must possess the ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant such action
• Ability to implement and interpret programs, goals, objectives, policies, and procedures of the department
• Must perform proficiently in all competency areas