Activities Coordinator

Responsibilities

The Activities Coordinator is responsible for the supervision of structured daylong activities for a group of elderly. The Coordinator’s plan and implement activities for groups, based on individual participant needs, interests, abilities, and strengths. Physical attendance at an InnovAge facility and/or an InnovAge participant home is essential to performing the job duties.

• Assists in the initial assessment of participants’ ability to manage particular group’s dynamics based on observation and evaluation.
• Prepares goals and care plans for each participant in assigned group with input from multi-disciplinary team.
• Assesses abilities and changing needs of participants and group activities accordingly.
• Monitors participants’ physical and mental level of functioning, as well as the ability to maintain role in activities.
• Establishes appropriate goals for each individual participant.
• Assumes responsibility for safety needs of each participant within group.
• Provides personal care to participants.
• Responds to participants and caregivers with sensitivity and positive empathy.
• Verbalizes, demonstrates and implements in daily room practice, an understanding of infection control in relation to hand washing techniques, disease prevention, food handling and disposal of soiled articles.
• Refers back to team established plan of consistently implementing own role in participant care.
• Clearly documents participant care.
• Monitors and supervises work assignments for Assistant Activity Coordinators, Certified Nursing Assistants, Senior Companions, volunteers and students.
• Monitors assistant and volunteer staff’s ability to manage group interaction.
• Participates in the development and implementation of Quality Assurance activities.
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge relating to geriatric care and/or activities.

REQUIRED

• 2+ years in a care setting for the frail and cognitively impaired elderly
• High School Diploma or GED
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) card or the ability to obtain upon employment

PREFERRED

• Bachelor’s degree in gerontology, recreation, social services, nursing, rehabilitation
• Bi-lingual-Spanish, Russian, Punjabi or Hmong