Activities Director

Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States. Tracking Code: 15260. Position Type: Full-Time/Regular. This is for a future opening; hiring is contingent upon STGi’s selection as the successful awardee.

About the role

STGi is a workforce solutions company providing comprehensive healthcare delivery, Head Start and management consulting services and human capital solutions help our clients. Our services and solutions help our clients sustain and enhance their operations to better accomplish their mission.

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop, organize, implement, evaluate and direct the activities programs of this facility to meet the individual and person-centered needs of the residents.
• Develop recreational activities opportunities that are appropriate to the resident population and individualized to resident needs.
• Coordinate community outreach and seek out recreational partnerships that are representative of the interests of the residents.
• Coordinate with transportation services for activities outings and as necessary to meet the individual needs of the residents.
• Keep abreast of current federal and state regulations as well as professional standards of practice and make recommendations on changes in facility policies and procedures to the Administrator.
• Help develop a written plan of care (preliminary and comprehensive) for each resident that identifies the problems/needs of the resident and the goals to be accomplished for each problem/need identified.
• Ensure all department personnel attend and participate in mandatory facility in-service training programs as scheduled (e.g., Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), tuberculosis (TB), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), abuse prevention, etc.).

Qualifications

• Must possess, as a minimum, two (2) year(s) of college. Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Must be a qualified therapeutic recreation specialist or an activities professional who is licensed by the state and is eligible for certification as a recreation specialist or as an activities professional.
• Must have, as a minimum, two (2) year(s) experience in a social or recreation program within the last five (5) years, one (1) of which was full-time in a patient activities program in a health care setting.
• Must be a qualified occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant.
• Must have completed a training course approved by the State of North Carolina.

Skills

• Must possess the ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant such action.
• Must be knowledgeable of regulations governing activity services in nursing care facilities.
• Must demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to