Activites Director

Job Summary

Provides for an ongoing program of activities designed to meet, in accordance with the comprehensive assessment, the interests and the physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being of each resident.

Essential Functions

• Promote the mission, vision, and values of the organization

• Collaborating with staff and clinicians to understand the ways in which activities can promote healing and belonging.

• Conducting needs assessments to ascertain physical, cognitive, and emotional abilities.

• Determining individual interests and expectations regarding leisure time.

• Determining and overseeing the use of available finances.

• Developing an activities program that is both sufficiently diverse and sensitive to our occupants' requirements.

• Purchasing or leasing supplies for all activities.

• Sourcing, training, and monitoring the work of Activities Assistants.

• Advertising events well in advance of their scheduled times.

• Supervising and participating in events alongside staff and occupants.
• Compiling periodic reports that outline successes, constraints, and the way forward.