Life Enrichment Lead

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Full-Time Willmar, MN, US

6 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $17.80 To $20.04 Hourly

The Life Enrichment Lead is responsible for planning, organizing, and implementing engaging daily activities that enhance the quality of life for residents. This role includes creating and maintaining a monthly activity calendar, leading and facilitating activities on a daily basis, and ensuring programs meet the social, emotional, and recreational needs of residents. The Life Enrichment Lead works to promote resident participation, foster a positive community environment, and adapt activities to accommodate varying interests and abilities.

Reports to:

Housing Manager

Interrelationships with:
Housing Manager
External Contacts:
Visitors, Families, Volunteers, Other outside Activity sources for programs

As scheduled.

Street clothing appropriate in a business environment

Minimum qualifications necessary.

• Education and Training
  • High school diploma or equivalent
  • Basic activity course (a willingness to take this course)
• Experience:
  
  Previous work with the elderly is desirable.
• Personal:
  • Attend all on-going activity training
  • Good physical and mental health
  • Ability to maintain outgoing, cheerful, enthusiastic personality
  • Have efficient time management skills
  • Effective communication skills
  • Ability to work with others in close proximity
  • Self-motivated, work independently
  • Ability to contribute to a friendly, homelike atmosphere
• Job knowledge:
  • Have knowledge of various activities and be familiar with tenant’s limitations
  • Musical/performance ability desirable
  • Ability to read, write, and follow directions
  • Ability to speak clearly, and to make self-understood to tenants of varying abilities
  • Ability to think creatively, plan and problem solve
  • Ability to prepare, present, and evaluate activity
  • Possess good phone etiquette
  • Record keeping ability

• Frequent walking, twisting, standing, bending/stooping, pushing/pulling
• Occasional squatting, kneeling, sitting and reaching above the shoulder

• Ability to cope with frequent interruptions
• Ability to vary and adapt activities to tenant ability levels and needs
• Ability to quickly come up with alternative activity plans
• Ability to cope with depressed or lonely people
• Ability to prepare activities with variety, fun, and purpose
• Ability to deal with tenants with dementia

• Tenants having an enhances quality of life so they can function at their optimum level
• Meeting physical, emotional, intellectual community and social well-being needs

• Provide personal contact with tenants allowing them to feel successful; that their life has a purpose and to continue to pursue their interests and use their remaining abilities.

• To provide one to one visits; inviting tenants to activities in a way that make them feel welcome
• Creating and maintaining a warm, loving environment
• Use age and mind appropriate interaction in activities
• Explain activities to tenants in a way that encourages involvement, respects their rights and gives choices whenever possible
• Planning, preparing and facilitating activities that meet the tenants mental, physical, emotional, social and community needs.

• Offer activities which is a variety and meet different levels of ability
• Work with the HD in the planning and development of these programs, ever looking for new and improved ways of doing things.
• Perform miscellaneous functions that emerge on a daily basis with kindness, willingness, and spontaneity.

• Order food and supplies for the department
• Arrange transportation, or assist on outings
• Prepare food for activities and clean area when completed
• Photograph events, sharing interesting events for the Beacon
• Responsible for monthly newsletter and calendar planning
• Perform computer work as required
• Help enhance the environment through seasonale and monthly decoration along with the HD
• Have an outgoing inventory of activity…