Activity Director - Nursing Home jobs in Missouri

Activity Director

Riverside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC is seeking a full time Activity Director. Are you creative and looking for a great company to share your creative ideas with? Are you compassionate and want to work with geriatric residents? Then we would like to interview you!

About Riverside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC

Riverside Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC proudly serves our community's long-term care and rehabilitation needs. We are committed to providing loving excellence in senior care. We offer services speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and dementia/Alzheimer's care. Our goal is to provide dignified care to all of our residents in a well maintained, home-like environment. This is why we work hard to create an excellent work environment for our staff as well.

Our company recognizes the amazing efforts of our staff and values their downtime with a work-life balance that includes two weeks of vacation and sick days for a healthy rejuvenation that all employees supply to our patients.

BENEFITS:

• Same Day Pay- Cash Out When You Clock Out;
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance;
• Paid Vacation, Sick & Personal Time Off;
• Tuition Reimbursement;
• Life, Critical Illness & AD&D Insurance,
• Health Savings Account & Flexible Spending Account,
• Employee Assistance Program

We want to hire employees with compassion and a love for long term care. The ideal candidate is someone who is energetic, creative and has an outgoing personality. Most importantly the ideal candidate must love bringing excitement on daily basis to our residents. The Activity Director will be well spoken and interact in a professional manner with the community. If you possess the following traits, we would love to have you join our team!

• Service-oriented - kind, patient, and helpful to everyone
• Self-motivated - driven by goals and is willing to do whatever needs to be done
• Optimistic - has a positive, can-do attitude
• Dependable - someone coworkers and residents can rely on
• Team-player - cooperative and works easily with others

Under the direction of the Executive Director, the Activity Director is responsible for planning and directing a program of diversified activities for residents of the Facility. The activity program must meet the interests and the physical, mental, and psychosocial needs and well-being of each resident.

The goal of the activity program is to provide mental and physical stimulation as well as to create an invigorating social atmosphere for the residents.

Essential Duties:

• Coordinates and encourages an active Volunteer Program.
• Assists in training, teaching and directing of volunteer and students.
• Directs other activity personnel in implementing activity programs and services at the Facility.
• Provides a schedule of planned activity programs.
• Maintains a system of records including information on residents, progress notes, attendance, discharge summaries, Resident Council meeting minutes, activity assessments and plans for each resident.
• Interviews new residents upon admission to identify their needs and interest in various activity programs.
• Decorates Facility with seasonal decor, including holiday decorations.

QUALIFICATIONS: One year experience in geriatric care providing or developing recreational or activity programs is required or two years experience in a geriatric health care setting.