Activity Therapy Aide​/Cook

Starting Wage: $19.32/hr.

Dodge County offers a generous benefits package including:

• Paid Time Off (PTO) – available for use after 30 days of employment
• 10 observed paid holidays
• Health Savings Account (HSA) – with employer contributions - HRA
• Life insurance, Long-term disability, Short-term disability and Flex spending
• Participation in the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS)– an exceptional pension plan with employer match (upon vesting) and lifetime retirement payment.

• Guides residents to participate in recreational activities, is the lead person and delegates staff assisting with tasks, assists with sensory programs, exercise programs and projects to best meet residents’ person-centered life enrichment needs along with providing active treatment per regulations.
• Arranges and provides transportation for community group/individual outings, social activities, plans special meals, plans/schedules/organizes special events and entertainment for the household. Develops monthly calendars for activities planned.
• Transports residents to and from activities and other functions as required.
• Decorates household to assist with resident reality orientation/holidays/seasons and assists with researching/purchasing approved items for household.
• Assists residents with purchasing/researching getting items that they need/wish to have.
• Makes routine contact with residents by visiting with them, assisting them with making cards/letters for families and needed online shopping, etc.
• Schedules movies in house, planning parties, and providing games/activities for residents.
• Encourages residents to participate in available programs.
• Works with individuals on goals in their Individual Service Plan (ISP) and reports progress for charting.
• Maintains documentation of resident attendance at activities, estimated amount of time each participated.
• Assists and promotes independence with cares (including personal hygiene); ambulation and accessing the community.
• Functions as an integral member of the team providing appropriate interventions during medical, behavioral, and/or facility emergencies.
• Provides personal hygiene including bathing (tub, shower, bed bath), oral care, skin and nail care and hand washing.
• Completes resident grooming including hair care, shaving, dressing and weighing. Encourages residents toward independent personal care.
• Assists with toileting including bowel and bladder retraining and perinea care.
• Performs and assists with mobility, transferring, ambulation, positioning, and range of motion per the care plan.
• Reports accurately all cares given, including dietary intake and output, temperature, weight, blood pressure pulse and respiration, using approved abbreviations and descriptive terms.
• Serves residents their meals; motivates and assists them with intake of nourishment and fluids.
• Participates in the planning of resident care through shift reports and resident care staffing meetings when assigned.
• Informs verbally and/or submit in writing any observations and changes in a resident for the supervisor to evaluate, including dietary intake.
• Encourages/assist, residents in keeping their rooms clean and orderly.
• Maintains household in a clean and orderly manner.
• Keeps all residents’ personal belongings and equipment clean.
• Ensures all residents’ possessions are properly labeled as needed.
• Responds to resident emergency including bleeding, falls, seizures, and performance of CPR and Heimlich maneuver.
• Performs housekeeping and laundry responsibilities as needed.
• Assists with the training and orientation of new Household Assistants.
• Provides backup assistance to Household Assistants and other department personnel as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.