Job: Activities Director

Medicana Nursing and Rehab Center is South Florida's premier healthcare facility conveniently located in Lake Worth, FL.

Our focus is mission-minded with the intention of giving only top-quality care to those in our facilities. We strive to satisfy our residents and take pride in encouraging them to fulfill life to its fullest. As a community, we appreciate who you are. We thrive from growing together and forming relationships that are irreplaceable. Join our team now; one of Palm Beach County's longest tenured team!

We are currently seeking an Activities Director to join our team. Apply now and find out why we are a great place to work.

The Activities Director plans, organizes, develops and directs quality activities for residents ensuring that the recreational, physical, intellectual, spiritual and social needs of each resident are met in accordance with all laws, regulations and Medicana standards. The Activities Director reports to Executive Director.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Completes assessments, MDS, care plans and gathers information to design activities that are multi-faceted, meets patients’ functional levels, and reflects needs and interests of each patient.

Through activities, provides stimulation or solace, promotes physical, cognitive and/or emotional health.

Offers activities that enhance, to the extent practicable, each resident’s physical and mental status.

Promotes each resident’s self-respect by providing activities that support self-expression and choice.

Offers activities that involve facility staff, volunteers and visitors.

Provides patients who are confined or choose to remain in their rooms with in- room activities in keeping with life-long interest (music, reading, visits with individuals who share their interests or reasonable attempts to connect the patient with such individuals) and in-room projects they can work on independently.

Informs patients when activities are occurring: encourage patients involvement in activities.

Assists with escorting patients to and from activities.

Maintains sufficient activity supplies

Interviews patients, interested family members, legal representatives and significant others to obtain and update information needed to develop individualized activities programs, to accommodate individual needs and preferences and to protect and promote patients’ rights.

Attends care conferences with members of the interdisciplinary team to develop,

Communicates patient’s concerns and responses to interventions to interdisciplinary team members and to direct care staff.

Develops and provides individual, group and bedside activities that reflect the needs and interest of patients.

Identifies ways to accommodate patient choices, preferences, functional capacity and customary routines in activities. Includes these approaches in plan of care and gives this information to direct care staff.

Develops and implements effective procedures to ensure that all patients are informed that activities are occurring, that staff encourage participation, that transportation is provided and activities occur as planned.

Must be licensed recreation specialist (BS degree); OR must have two (2) years experience in a social or recreation program within the last five (5) years, one of which was fulltime in a patient activities program in a healthcare setting; OR must be a licensed OT or OTA; OR must have completed state-approved activity training.

Prior experience with geriatrics preferred; training provided, however.

Previous experience in long term care preferred.