Life Enrichment Director
Company: Franklin Park Senior Living
Location: Dallas
Posted on: September 24, 2024
Job Description:
The Grove of Forest Lane is a beautiful Assisted Living and
Memory Care community located off Forest Lane within five miles of
the Galleria. We are looking for an experienced Life Enrichment
Director to engage our residents and enhance their daily lives
physically, mentally, and spiritually.GENERAL DESCRIPTIONThe Life
Enrichment Director is responsible for developing and implementing
a comprehensive activities program to help meet the intellectual,
spiritual, physical, psychosocial and recreational needs of the
residents.PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Schedules recurring activities along with special events and
holiday specific events to enrich the daily lives of the community
residents. Ensures a mix of small-group and large-group activities,
fulfilling a range of human needs, from mental stimulation to
creativity to physical fitness. Works as needed with other
departments (e.g. fitness director, food service) on design and
implementation. Follows community/company policy regarding 7
day/week programming, including evenings and weekends.
- Creates printed monthly activities calendar and community
newsletter.
- Facilitates Person-Centered Care:
- Documents residents' social histories, family structure,
likes/dislikes and social-behavioral needs on standardized form for
all staff to reference in order to personalize services.
- Works with caregivers on an ongoing basis to help them
understand how to engage residents, encourage and assist residents
to participate in group activities, and adapt their communication
styles and ways of providing care to give residents choice and
control.
- Builds in opportunities for residents to lead/co-lead programs
and to engage individually and spontaneously in art projects and
other pastimes.
- Works with families as partners and actively models that
philosophy.
- Stays current in and can teach best practices in validation
therapy, reality orientation, de-escalation techniques and other
therapeutic modalities.
- Provides one or more forums (e.g. resident council) for
residents to meet regularly and share their ideas, thoughts, and
concerns regarding life enrichment programs and other community
operations.
- Maintains an adequate inventory of equipment and supplies for
activities, keeping within budgetary guidelines.
- Manages memory care therapeutic music program.
- Plans and executes group excursions, arranging details as
required, e.g. reservations, transportation, staff escorts, etc.
Follows company protocol for keeping track of residents during
outings and ensuring a meaningful and safe trip for all.
- Serves as Manager on Duty as assigned.
- Hires, orients and supervises Life Enrichment Assistants,
including drivers.
- Maintains activity participation records.
- Manages monthly expense budget; authorizes payment of bills,
including drivers' records of vehicle expenses.
- Attends required trainings and meetings.
- Becomes familiar with emergency response procedures, including
fire evacuation.
- All employees are responsible for maintaining a safe and secure
environment for all community residents.
- Performs other duties as assigned.KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND
ABILITIES
- Able to read, write, speak and understand the English language.
Bi-lingual in Spanish a plus.
- Able to communicate effectively with all levels of management,
employees, residents, family members, and outside contacts.
- Prompt and reliable and able to perform the required duties on
a regular, predictable basis.
- Clean driving record with license to operate Class B vehicle
(or ability to obtain such license).
- Able to make independent decisions.
- Able to seek out new methods and willing to incorporate them
into existing practices when applicable.
- Must possess a passion to work with older adults.
- Able to follow missing person policy and procedure and
understand the Safe Return program.EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
- Trained activity professional, certified by an accrediting body
such as the National Association of Activity Professionals is
preferred.
- Degree preferred but not required.WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
- Minimum of two years' experience in a senior care
community.
- Experience working with persons with Alzheimer's Disease and
related disorders.PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTSThe following physical
demands are representative of those that must be met to
successfully perform the essential functions of this position:
- Stand, walk, sit, push, climb and/or balance, bend, stoop,
kneel, use hands and fingers, reach with arms, talk and/or hear
throughout the workday.
- Will assist in lifting and/or transferring residents weighing
up to 250 pounds.
- Close vision, distance vision and peripheral vision is
required.
- Subject to infectious diseases, substances, odors, etc.
throughout the workday.
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Keywords: Franklin Park Senior Living, The Colony , Life Enrichment Director, Executive , Dallas, Texas
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