Activities Assistant

Company: Sandgate
Location: Fort Pierce
Posted on: August 7, 2022

Job Description:

Job DescriptionActivities Assistant - Full Time - Now Offering DAILY PAY!!!OVERVIEW:Assist in scheduling, organizing and facilitating activities to meet the residents' creative, social, physical, spiritual, and emotional needs. Adapts activities to suit resident and incorporate them into overall resident care routines and objectivesQUALIFICATIONS: EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE:

• High School Diploma and certain certifications may be required.
• More education or experience with nursing, recreational activities, event planning, or related may be preferred.
• Adaptability and strong organization and time management skills.
• Excellent resource management, computer, record keeping, interpersonal, decision making, and verbal and written communication skills.
• Patience and compassion when dealing with others, especially those who are sick, injured, elderly, or from different backgrounds.
• Flexibility to work when needed, especially evenings, weekends, or early mornings.WORK ENVIRONMENT:
  • This position operates in a health care setting. This role requires regular walking to various locations around the care center.
  • Incumbent may be exposed to virus, disease and infection from patients and specimens in working environment.
  • Incumbent may be required to work extended periods of time at a video display terminal.
  • Incumbent may experience traumatic situations, including psychiatric, and deceased patients.
  • Works beyond normal working hours and on weekends and holidays when necessary
  • Incumbent must be able to stay or return to facility during emergency conditionsPHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
    • The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
    • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
    • This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift or move objects and patients weighing over 50 pounds.SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: This position has no supervisory responsibilities.TRAVEL: There are no travel requirements.

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