Job Description

Position Title: Full-time Tri-State LifeCare Medical Adult Daycare Activity Coordinator.

DUTIES:

• Develops a planned schedule of social and other purposeful individual or group activities which:
• Meets the individual needs and interests of each participant.
• Encourages self-care and the resumption of normal activities or, for those who cannot realistically resume normal activities, prevents or hampers further mental and/or physical deteriorations; and
• Provides opportunities for involvement, both individual and group, in the planning and implementation of the activity program.
• Provides or supervises the provision of the activities specified in the center activity program.
• Encourages participants to take part in the activity program, specifically those suited to their individual needs.
• Utilizes the center’s transportation to provide activities in the community, as indicated by the needs and interests of the participants.
• Physically able to perform the required duties and assist frail, elderly and disabled adults, as necessary.
• Complete Activity assessments for participants.
• Develop, consistent with participant plans of care, activity programs that meet individual participant needs.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:

• Certified by the National Certification Council for Activity Professionals (NCCAP) through any of NCAAP’s approved certification tracks as an activities director (ADC), OR
• Be a qualified therapeutic recreation specialist who has three years of experience in a social or recreational program within the last five (5) years, one of which was full-time in an activities program in a health care setting for the aged, individuals with disabilities, or special populations, OR
• Be an Occupational Therapist or occupational therapy assistant currently licensed to practice in the state of WV.
• Speaks and reads English, fluently.

Hospice of Huntington, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity agency.

Hospice of Huntington is a non-profit agency that has been helping people with serious illness since 1982. We know that calling hospice for care is one of the hardest things you will ever do. We also know from caring for over 15,000 people that most people wish they had called sooner. Hospice of Huntington helps people with a life-limiting illness control the symptoms that keep them from living everyday life.

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