Activities Assistant

New Friends Memory Care & Assisted Living is looking for compassionate, driven, and caring individuals who would like to join our Kalamazoo team as Activities Assistant (Vibrant Life).

This is a great opportunity to put your recreational skills to the task!

New Friends Memory Care is a Vibrant Life Senior Living property with three 20-unit lodges. Each lodge is separated by level of care and memory support. This allows our residents to receive the individual care they need. This also goes for the individualized mental and physical activities for each lodge.

Job Purpose: The Activity Assistant works closely with the Program Director and interdisciplinary team to plan, deliver, and coordinate programs to meet the needs of our residents.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist with evaluating and adapting programming on an ongoing basis to insure that the programming schedule is creative, efficient and reflective of the residents need and interests.
• Help to facilitate spontaneity of residents, staff, family and community in order to create a homelike environment.
• Interact and collaborate with all relevant support departments (Dining Services, Environmental Services, and Housekeeping) affected by the activities designed, and give advance notice of interdepartmental functions. Work closely with staff to include them in the provision of activities that occur during assigned shifts.
• Assist with creating/posting daily activities for residents, staff and families.
• Participate in regularly scheduled meetings such as All Staff & Departmental meetings