Activity Aide

Position Summary
Activity Aide will be responsible for the direct personal care of the clients attending the Adult Day Services Program. This role will be under the direction of the Senior Care Coordinator and the Adult day Services Manager. The Activity Aide will work along with the Senior Services Coordinator and the Lead Activity Aide. Activity Aide is responsible for providing help with the physical, educational, or social activities of the clients. Activity Aide will monitor, support, assist, and ensure the safety, well-being, and inclusion of clients. Activity Aide tasks contribute to the clients' emotional, daily function, and cognitive needs.

Education & Certification Requirements

•  High School diploma/GED.
• CNA certification preferred.
• Bilingual in Spanish preferred
• Two years’ experience in Geriatrics care.

Experience & Training Requirements

• Computer knowledge.
•  Thirty hours of Adult Day Services training preferred.
•  Food Service Management is preferred.
•  First Aid CPR certification preferred.
•  Attention to detail.
•  At least one year of experience in recreational experience for seniors
•  Great communication skills
•  Great Customer Service skills

Desired Outcomes

• At least an 80% of participants engaged/participating in activities facilitated by the Activity Aide.
• Regularly observe processes for areas of improvement
• Understand participant needs and deliver expected outcomes.
• High energy of employee engagement
• Consistently complete documentation of Activities of Daily Living, complete a min of a 15% of the files per week, semester, quarter.

Essential Job Requirements & Duties

• Program Aide assists helps providing personal care such as toileting, bathing, eating, transfers, and grooming to Adult Day Service clients.
• Assist bus drivers with loading and unloading clients.
• Assist clients with removing coats upon arrival and properly identifying coats (with tags), hats, gloves, and other personal items before hanging them up.
• Assist the lead staff in carrying out daily activity programs.
• Attending assigned field trips with the participants, supporting, and always monitoring them.
• Always ensure client safety.
• Always follow the daily calendar of activities.
• Work and communicate with the Lead Activity Aide and Senior Services Coordinator to ensure coverage and ratio with clients are always met.
• Gathers, prepares, and maintains all equipment, materials, and supplies for activities.
• Keep the program area in an organized and clean manner.
• Assist with the serving of breakfast, lunch, and snacks.
• Assist in taking daily attendance and recording the BLS for participants,
• Conduct inventory of all participants lockers to ensure first-needed items are always available for them (2nd set of clothes, diapers, etc.).
• Always follow the Locker inventory schedule. Report any first need items that need to be restocked immediately.
• Assist in kitchen duties and menu planning. Assist in food inventory control and food preparation.
• Assist with food temperatures upon delivery from the caterer.
• Assist with observing clients and reporting activities to appropriate staff.
• Complete client forms and document information in files.
• Participate in team meetings and in-service educational training.
• Other duties as assigned.

Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak English, specifically, to communicate both in person and over the telephone. The employee must regularly be able to read English proficiently. The employee must regularly operate a word-processing system and therefore must be able to read, produce and transmit data on such a system. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision requirements include the ability to see at close range.

Working Conditions
(The unavoidable, externally imposed conditions under which the work must be performed, and which create hardship for the incumbent including the frequency and duration of occurrence of physical demands, environmental conditions, demands on one’s senses and mental demands.)

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