Recreation Assistant - Rehab Long-Term Care - Rockingham

Description

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Summary:
The Recreation Services Assistant helps with planning and implementing recreation programs for residents on a daily basis that will carry out the objectives of the facility as part of holistic total care for each individual.

Responsibilities:
1. Develop and administer a well-rounded social program, ensuring all activities conform to the criteria of federal, state, and local accreditation and licensing agencies or organizations
2. Provide individual activities, in-room sensory stimulation to sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
3. Compile a month social program calendar and distribute to residents, using community resources in the development of programs.
4. Write annual and quarterly notes on all residents and keep daily record of resident's participation.
5. Transport residents to and from activity dayroom.

Other information:
Education Requirements:
* None required as long as other position qualifications are met.
Licensure/Certification Requirements:
* None required.
Professional Experience Requirements:
* Prefer two years previous experience in a long-term care setting.
Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:
* Strong customer service and social skills.

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: UNC Rockingham Health Care

Organization Unit: MNC Rehab L-T Care

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range:$15.40 - $21.95 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Eden

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.