ACTIVITY AIDE/COORDINATOR

Responsibilities

• Supports and implements program philosophy, working closely with other personnel to ensure that each activity is appropriate for the patient.
• Maintains high quality documentation of all activities consistent with facility policies in a timely manner, meeting all deadlines as established by facility policy and procedures.
• Maintains professional, ethical standards and all legal requirements.
• Affirms patients’ needs regularly and assists in the completion of the patient assessment.
• Provides activities to assigned patients consistent with established techniques and methods of the relevant professional literature.
• Exercises sound judgement in making therapeutic decisions concerning assigned cases.
• Demonstrates knowledge of age-specific physical, motor, cognitive, language and social/personality developments.
• Utilizes understanding of growth and development philosophies of the children and adolescents within the application of leisure activities.
• Understands the aging process of adulthood and geriatric population as it relates to leisure activity and shows the ability to provide activities specific for improving physical and/or psychological impairments related to the aging process.
• Demonstrates the understanding of the 12-Step program and the disease process of chemical dependency and how it affects the patient’s medical, social, financial, and leisure status.
• Has the ability to appropriately engage/provide therapy with patients withdrawing from chemical dependency.
• Adheres to all safety policies and safe work practice.
• Attends hospital safety trainings.
• Adheres to all hospital policies and procedures.
• Reports and documents all accidents immediately.