Activity Director / Lifestyles Coordinator SN

Job Description

Job Description

The Buckingham is the premier not for profit, Life Care retirement community in the greater Houston region. Our mission is to enrich each resident’s life through exceptional experiences provided within an environment of comfort, elegance, exceptional hospitality and compassionate care. We offer a competitive salary and benefits including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k with match, PTO, tuition reimbursement and meal programs. We are seeking an experienced professional with the skills, dedication and compassion to join our team and help achieve the mission and vision of The Buckingham.

Position Summary

The Lifestyle Coordinator is an important position at The Buckingham as it provides engaging life enrichment opportunities for the community’s residents. This position acts to bring joy and purposeful living to senior residents accomplished through development and oversight of resident programs, clubs, scheduled outings, community involvement and personalized engagement of Skilled Nursing residents of The Buckingham. Residents depend on this position performing at a high level with professionalism and an enthusiastic nature and expect intriguing and well-rounded programming with a connection to community and attention to inviting purposeful living to residents. To be successful in this position requires a compassionate individual with a strong customer service focus, creativity, patience, the ability to work well with fellow staff and vendors, organization skills, a friendly and positive demeanor and the ability and wiliness to learn. The position of Lifestyle Coordinator reports directly to the Lifestyle Manager and plays an essential role in the effective and efficient operations of The Buckingham’s Lifestyle Department.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develops and implements life enrichment programs that provide social, emotional, educational, spiritual, physical and interest-based opportunities for residents to maintain a healthy engaged and purposeful lifestyle.
• Prepares, organizes and coordinates with Lifestyle Supervisor, holiday events, special occasions, variety of club organizations and community outings that meet the needs of residents.
• Assists residents to and from events and programs.
• Helps welcome new residents to the community and helps establish them into clubs and life enrichment opportunities.
• Provides ongoing communication with residents, family and employees as necessary electronically, verbally and other communications as appropriate.
• Assists Lifestyle Supervisor with completing resident Lifestyle Assessments
• Attends care plan meetings as necessary and / or instructed by Lifestyle Director / Lifestyle Supervisor.
• Charts and documents resident daily attendance and participation in activities.
• Attends and participates in clinical documentation and meetings as deemed necessary by Lifestyle Director / Lifestyle Supervisor.
• Set-up, running and breakdown of events, programs and activities.
• Coordinates and participates in holiday decorations for the community.
• Meets routinely with Lifestyle Manager, co-workers and other department leaders to review operations.
• Creates, prints and distributes monthly calendar of events and activities and community newsletter for Assisted Living residents and their families.
• Creates, print and distributes advertorial information promoting upcoming events, clubs, etc as appropriate.
• Maintains an organized and visually appropriate appearance of the common spaces and activity areas to ensure safety, professionalism and cleanliness.
• Assists Lifestyle Supervisor in leadership of wellness program including but not limited to the Aspyre Lifestyle philosophy.
• Addresses resident groups on subjects of interest.
• Interacts with residents, guests and staff in an atmosphere of hospitality.
• Protects privacy and physical / mental safety of the resident.
• Keeps Lifestyle Supervisor informed of supply needs.
• Proactively interacts with resident committees, councils, clubs and individually to seek input on lifestyle programs.
• Participate in community employee in-services and required training.
• Follows and supports the policies and procedures of The Buckingham overall and the Lifestyle Department to meet departmental goals.
• Is a strong advocate for customer service and fulfills the requirements of The Buckingham Commitment and The Buckingham Standards of Excellence.
• Position has no supervisory duties related to Buckingham team members.
• Other duties as assigned by Supervisor / Lifestyle Director.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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