CNA - Activities Aide

About the role

Join our Long Term Care team at Saint Elizabeth Home in East Greenwich to experience our mission of caring and superior staffing ratios! Saint Elizabeth Community is a non-profit, locally owned organization providing compassionate, high-quality care since 1882. With 11 locations across Rhode Island, we offer a full continuum of services, including Independent Living, Assisted Living, Skilled Nursing, Home Care, and Rehabilitation.

Responsibilities

• Assist the TR Director in developing, coordinating, and implementing group and individualized holistic recreation programs for all residents to enhance spirit, mind, and body.
• Present programs
• Provide 1:1's to isolated residents
• Adapt activities/assist residents to meet all needs
• Organize special events
• Provide encouragement for residents to attend programs
• Provide transportation to and from programs
• Prepare for activities on monthly calendar acquiring supplies, arranging/decorating room
• Utilize departmental and community resources
• Coordinate and assist residents on community outings
• Provide continued assessment of all recreation programs ensuring quality and for resident appropriateness and effectiveness.
• Assist the TR Director in preparing all areas of documentation including assessment, progress notes, attendance records, MDS, and care plan.
• Maintain department supplies and cleanliness.
• Report safety hazards to appropriate parties.
• Provide the department with the characteristics of an Activity Assistant including: Creativity, Initiation, Team player, Empathetic, gentleness, kindness, compassion and courtesy toward residents and staff, Communication with all staff, Listening skills, Organization, Ability to generate ideas and implement them, Resourcefulness, Flexible, Knowledgeable, Development of Activity Assistant through attendance at meetings, inservice training, specialized training programs, seminars, and workshops.
• Participate in interdepartmental development of systems, policies & procedures. Identify problem areas and work with appropriate personnel to correct and