About this role
Job Description
The Life Enrichment Activities Assistant is responsible for supporting and assisting the Life Enrichment Director in designing, creating, initiating, facilitating, and implementing a wide variety of multi-level meaningful recreational and educational programs for our Independent Living (IL), and Assisted Living (AL) neighborhoods.- Assists with developing, planning, and implementing a monthly program of activities and supplies based on the dimensions of wellness (i.e. Movement & Motion, Curiosity & Culture, Feelings & Fellowship, Clarity & Purpose, Compassion & Connection and Leadership & Volunteerism) Harmony signature programs and person-centered interests.
- Leads 6-7 high quality programs per day.
- Assists in surveying and interviewing residents to complete the Resident Life Profile and to determine their past and present interests and talents as well as their satisfaction with the community’s programs and activities.
- Partners and coordinates with entire program team (i.e. LED, HSD, & HS assistant) to complete planning form, organize supplies, plan the calendars, events, and outings for the upcoming month.
- Develops relationships and connections with residents and families to encourage participation in programs and events and to promote a high level of resident and family satisfaction.
- Assists in documenting and maintaining all records as required.
- Assists in organizing and attending resident council meetings.
- Assists in organizing, maintaining, and staging programming areas and supplies with purpose and neatly.
- Assists in recruiting, coordinating, and overseeing a robust volunteer program.
- Assists in promoting programs by preparing and posting daily notices and posters as required.
- Assists in arranging chairs, tables, and sporting or exercise equipment in specified areas for scheduled group or one-on-one activities and returning to normal structure when completed.
- Assists in resident transportation to get groceries, shopping, leisure activities and other resident activities. May transport residents to physician appointments occasionally as directed.
- Assists in off-site outings for residents, providing transportation and safe coordination for participants.
Why Harmony?
401k + Fulltime & Part-time Benefits Packages
Employee Referral Bonus + Incentives (free meals, movie tickets, dining, automotive deals, retail discounts, finance/legal, consulting, electronics, and more!)
Training, Development & Career Laddering
Great work-life balance
Flexible Scheduling
Telehealth + Flex Spending + Health Savings Account Options
Other facts
About Harmony Senior Services
Harmony Senior Services is a fully-integrated management services company led by proven executives with over 100 years of combined experience and a record of successfully managing, marketing, planning, training, consulting to and turning around operations in the senior housing industry.
Harmony has developed a unique care strategy to enhance its senior care services that includes aging in place services, short stay respite services and Alzheimer’s services, resulting in a continuum of care for its senior residents. These core competencies have positioned Harmony to fill a gap between the majority of independent living operators who do not have the ability, the capital, nor the interest to provide care-driven senior housing, and the assisted living operators who are not equipped to meet the marketing challenges of lifestyle choice based senior properties for private pay facilities.
Harmony is an affiliate of Smith/Packett Med-Com, headquartered in southwest Virginia. Smith/Packett is one of the largest senior citizen housing and healthcare development companies in the country, specializing in the design, development, financing, marketing, strategic planning, and operation of healthcare facilities. Harmony Senior Services and Smith/Packett are family owned and operated organizations, which drives the values and goals of all Harmony communities.
Harmony Communities are located in the following areas:
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Tennessee
Georgia
Delaware
Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
Maryland
We are family serving families.
What you'll do
- The Activities Assistant supports the Life Enrichment Director in creating and implementing recreational and educational programs for residents. They lead multiple programs daily and assist in surveying residents to tailor activities to their interests.
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