Director of Activities - Resident Engagement & Functional Wellness
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading. Do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. We have Salary Up to $80,000 / Year mentioned at top. That's salary info. So we should include a Pay section with that content. Also schedule? Not specified. So no Schedule section. Benefits? Not specified. So no Benefits. We need sections: About the role (overview), Responsibilities, Qualifications. Possibly also Skills? Not separate; qualifications cover skills. Could combine but we follow headings. We need to preserve all substantive info. So we need to include the overview paragraph(s). The overview includes: "Salary Up to $80,000 / Year Overview Director of Activities - Resident Engagement & Functional Wellness Elderwood at Hamburg | Hamburg, New York | 166-bed skilled nursing facility Reimagine What An Activities Department Can Achieve...." We need to extract substantive content: The overview includes description of role, facility, mission, etc. We'll put that in About the role section. We need to remove duplicated lines, boilerplate like EOE statement. Also remove "EOE Statement WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER..." etc. Also remove any application instructions (none visible). Also remove cookie/navigation/legal etc (none). Also remove duplicated lines (maybe none). Also remove "Salary Up to $80,000 / Year" maybe we put in Pay section. We need to ensure we don't create sections with placeholder text. So Pay section will have the salary info. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. Thus produce something like:
About the role
...overview text...
Responsibilities
- ... each responsibility bullet ... ...
Qualifications
- ... each qualification bullet ... ...
Pay
Salary up to $80,000 per year.
We need to preserve all substantive info from responsibilities and qualifications. Let's extract them. Responsibilities section includes two subheadings: "What You’ll Have the Opportunity to Build:" and "How You’ll Lead". We need to capture all bullet points. From text: What You’ll Have the Opportunity to Build: - A resident-centered program spanning functional wellness, cognitive health, behavioral wellness, purpose and meaning, and family and community connection. - Individual, small-group, neighborhood, and facility-wide experiences shaped by each resident’s interests, abilities, history, culture, and goals. - A Functional Maintenance Program carried out in partnership with PT/OT, with clear plans, training, competencies, reassessment, and clinical safeguards. - Dedicated programming for residents living with dementia and for short-stay rehabilitation residents preparing for the next stage of recovery. - A stronger network of families, volunteers, schools, faith communities, artists, musicians, libraries, and civic partners. - A capable, accountable team with consistent coverage across days, evenings, and weekends. - A practical dashboard that helps leadership understand engagement, participation, resident experience, behavioral wellness, functional maintenance, and opportunities to prevent avoidable decline. How You’ll Lead: - Set the vision, standards, calendar, and daily operating rhythm for the department. - Coach staff to deliver meaningful engagement—not activity for activity’s sake—and reach residents who may not participate in traditional groups. - Partner with the interdisciplinary team to integrate resident preferences, risks, behavioral approaches, and functional goals into programming and care planning. - Use observations, participation data, resident and family feedback, and quality trends to improve the program. - Maintain strong documentation, resident-rights practices, survey readiness, and compliance with skilled nursing requirements. - Represent the program with warmth and credibility to residents, families, employees, volunteers, and community partners. We need to preserve all that. Qualifications section: "What We’re Looking For:" then bullet list. Let's extract: The Director of Resident Engagement and Functional Wellness must meet all applicable federal and New York State qualification requirements for directing an activities program in a skilled nursing facility. Candidates Must Be a Qualified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist Or Activities Professional Who Is Licensed Or Registered By The State, If Applicable, And Meets At Least One Of The Following Criteria - Is eligible for certification as a therapeutic recreation specialist or activities professional through a recognized accrediting body - Has at least two years of experience in a social or recreational program within the past five years, including at least one year of full-time experience in a therapeutic activities program - Is a qualified Occupational Therapist or Occupational Therapy Assistant - Has completed a state-approved activities-professional training course Additional Qualifications Include - Bachelor’s degree with training in recreation, as required by Elderwood and applicable New York State requirements - Experience supervising, developing, and scheduling a team in skilled nursing, long-term care, healthcare, therapeutic recreation, resident services, or a related environment - Ability to transform a strong program concept into a sustainable, well-organized operating model - Strong interdisciplinary communication skills and the judgment to work within established clinical roles and escalation pathways - A data-informed approach to program quality, resident participation, documentation, regulatory compliance, and follow-through - Leadership qualities and the ability to build positive relationships with residents, families, employees, volunteers, visitors, and community partners - Flexibility, patience, creativity, and sensitivity to the individual needs and preferences of older adults - Ability to meet the physical demands of an active, resident-facing leadership role and perform responsibilities according to established standards - Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English at an intermediate or more advanced level to support safe, effective communication with residents, families, employees, visitors, and supervisors - Experience in skilled nursing, dementia care, rehabilitation, gerontology, behavioral wellness, therapeutic recreation, or activity programming is strongly preferred. We need to preserve all that. Also note the first sentence about meeting qualification requirements; we should include that as a paragraph maybe before list. We need to avoid duplication. Also need to remove the EOE statement. Now About the role: Let's extract overview text after "Salary Up to $80,000 / Year Overview". The overview includes: Director of Activities - Resident Engagement & Functional Wellness Elderwood at Hamburg | Hamburg, New York | 166-bed skilled nursing facility Reimagine What An Activities Department Can Achieve. Elderwood at Hamburg is developing a new model that connects meaningful engagement with resident function, cognitive and behavioral wellness, rehabilitation goals, and community life. We are seeking a leader who can transform a traditional activities program into a Resident Engagement & Functional Wellness Department - one designed around the whole person and built in close partnership with residents, families, Nursing, Rehabilitation, Social Work, Dietary, Pharmacy, and Medical leadership. This is a chance to build- not simply maintain -a program for a 160-bed skilled nursing facility. The right leader will bring imagination and operational discipline, create reliable seven-day programming, develop a strong team, and use resident feedback and meaningful measures to show what is working. The Opportunity. This is an onsite leadership role at Elderwood at Hamburg. The department is being designed for seven-day coverage, including evening and weekend programming; final schedule expectations, compensation, and benefits will be shared once approved for posting. If you believe resident engagement can preserve ability, reduce isolation, strengthen recovery, and bring purpose to everyday life, we invite you to help build what comes next at Elderwood at Hamburg. We need to keep all substantive info. Note that the line "final schedule expectations, compensation, and benefits will be shared once approved for posting." This is vague; but we already have Pay section with salary. The schedule is not specified; we should not create Schedule section because it's not specific. The line mentions schedule expectations will be shared later; we should not include that as schedule section. We can keep it in About the role as part of overview? It's somewhat generic but it's part of the posting; we should preserve it. However instruction: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. The overview contains that sentence; it's not a heading, it's just prose. So we can keep it. Thus About the role paragraph will include all that. Now we need to ensure we don't repeat the job title as a heading. We are not using job title as heading; we are using About the role. Now produce HTML. We need to wrap each list item in- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits.
Thus:
About the role
Director of Activities - Resident Engagement & Functional Wellness Elderwood at Hamburg | Hamburg, New York | 166-bed skilled nursing facility. Reimagine What An Activities Department Can Achieve. Elderwood at Hamburg is developing a new model that connects meaningful engagement with resident function, cognitive and behavioral wellness, rehabilitation goals, and community life. We are seeking a leader who can transform a traditional activities program into a Resident Engagement & Functional Wellness Department - one designed around the whole person and built in close partnership with residents, families, Nursing, Rehabilitation, Social Work, Dietary, Pharmacy, and Medical leadership. This is a chance to build- not simply maintain -a program for a 160-bed skilled nursing facility. The right leader will bring imagination and operational discipline, create reliable seven-day programming, develop a strong team, and use resident feedback and meaningful measures to show what is working. The Opportunity. This is an onsite leadership role at Elderwood at Hamburg. The department is being designed for seven-day coverage, including evening and weekend programming; final schedule expectations, compensation, and benefits will be shared once approved for posting. If you believe resident engagement can preserve ability, reduce isolation, strengthen recovery, and bring purpose to everyday life, we invite you to help build what comes next at Elderwood at Hamburg.
Responsibilities
- A resident-centered program spanning functional wellness, cognitive health, behavioral wellness, purpose and meaning, and family and community connection.
- Individual, small-group, neighborhood, and facility-wide experiences shaped by each resident’s interests, abilities, history, culture, and goals.
- A Functional Maintenance Program carried out in partnership with PT/OT, with clear plans, training, competencies, reassessment, and clinical safeguards.
- Dedicated programming for residents living with dementia and for short-stay rehabilitation residents preparing for the next stage of recovery.
- A stronger network of families, volunteers, schools, faith communities, artists, musicians, libraries, and civic partners.
- A capable, accountable team with consistent coverage across days, evenings, and weekends.
- A practical dashboard that helps leadership understand engagement, participation, resident experience, behavioral wellness, functional maintenance, and opportunities to prevent avoidable decline.
- Set the vision, standards, calendar, and daily operating rhythm for the department.
- Coach staff to deliver meaningful engagement—not activity