Activities Assistant

About the role

New England Homes for the Deaf, founded in 1901, is a life plan community offering a continuum of care to Deaf, Deafblind, and hard of hearing seniors. The mission is to provide long term healthcare, housing, recreational activities, and social support in an accessible, barrier-free, and culturally sensitive environment.

Responsibilities

• Available to work 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM (open to other hours).
• Preferred: available to work Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
• Create and facilitate activities for residents.
• Invite and encourage residents to attend and participate in activities.
• Explain time, place and nature of activities as needed.
• Offer activity materials for residents to peruse activities/interests in/out of room as desired.
• Assist with Sunroom activities.
• Assist residents with activities as needed.
• Properly document each resident's daily activity participation in the appropriate logs.
• Provide appropriate group and one-on-one activities for all residents.
• Provide appointment reminders to residents who have signed up for in-house activity services.
• Aid in the transport of residents to activity locations.
• Copy and distribute Activities schedule to residents.
• Set up activity areas.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Participate in offsite resident Activities.
• Attend outdoor events with residents on and off property.
• Perform additional duties, as assigned by the Activities Director, in support of Activities Department.

Requirements

• Available to work one weekend per month based on approval from the Activities Director.
• Available to work every other holiday per year based on approval from Activities Director (holidays are listed in the Employee Handbook).
• An attitude of respect and compassion towards all residents and staff.
• Pleasant personality and ability to maintain a calm demeanor during excitable or emergency situations.
• Ability to communicate clearly using ASL is preferred.
• All staff are required to take our free, on-site ASL and Culture classes.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to exert up to 20 pounds of force to lift, carry, pull, push, or otherwise move objects and/or residents.
• Ability to push residents in wheelchairs, with unknown limit of bodyweight.
• Ability to successfully set up activities on an independent level.
• Ability to transcribe.