Activities Specialist- Edufit, Bridgeway Pointe, Full Time, First

Activities Specialist, First Shift, Bridgeway Pointe, Daniel Drake Center 

UC Health is hiring a full-time Activities Specialist for the first shift at our Bridgeway Pointe location at Daniel Drake Center. 

The Activities Specialist is responsible for planning and implementing various resident activities and leisure services. Screen residents for activity preferences on admission and routinely after admission. Develops individual Edufit activity/fitness programs. Completes all necessary documentation, establishes, follows, and updates Service Plans on a routine basis utilizing an interdisciplinary team approach. Demonstrate behaviors reflective of the mission and core values of Bridgeway Pointe as well as those specific to required competencies for successful job performance.

About Daniel Drake Center for Post-Acute Care 

Daniel Drake Center specializes in providing post-acute and transitional care services for patients recovering from a catastrophic injury or illness. Daniel Drake Center is the only hospital-based skilled nursing facility in the Cincinnati region. With a complete range of inpatient and outpatient services including medically complex care, skilled nursing, assisted living, wellness services, and research, Daniel Drake Center offers comprehensive care continuum and a variety of services to help patients throughout their recovery. 
 
Unit Details: 

• Enjoy a family-oriented and collaborative work environment. 

• Experience Flexible scheduling. 

• Build relationships with our Long-term residents and staff. 

Job Responsibilities 

• Engages in population appropriate communication.
• Presents a cheerful and professional attitude to all customers as evidenced by smiling and greeting people as they pass. 
• Respects privacy of all customers as evidenced by waiting for permission to enter residents rooms, discussing confidential information in a private setting, properly covering or draping the patient during treatments, closing curtains or doors during personal care or confidential conversations. 
• Provides attentive care to the needs of all customers by allowing ample time to ask questions while providing information and education, allowing them as much opportunity as possible to make decisions as to their care such as which activity they will perform first during a treatment or care session. 
• Demonstrates compassionate care for all customers as evidenced by concluding each encounter by asking "is there anything else I can do for you right now?” · 
• Actively supports the Partners-in-Growth team-based environment defined as two or more persons engaged in a common goal, who are dependent on one another for results, and who have joint accountability for results. 
• Maintains confidentiality of information regarding patients/ families / significant other, health care team members, and other employees of UC Health. 

Education and Experience Requirements:   

• Minimum Required: High School/GED. 
• Completion of 70-hour activities training course preferred. 
• Minimum of two years in activity programming for adult/older adults in long-term care or a related field preferred.  
• Demonstrates knowledge of the growth and development needs of adult/older adult populations. 
• Experience in a nursing home and/or assisted living facility is preferred.

Join our team as an Activities Specialist at our Bridgeway Pointe location and work alongside the best and brightest clinical teams collaborating toward our common purpose: to advance healing and reduce suffering.   

 

Join our team to BE UC Health. Be Extraordinary. Be Supported. Be Hope. Apply Today!  

 

About UC Health  

UC Health is an integrated academic health system serving Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. In partnership with the University of Cincinnati, UC Health combines clinical expertise and compassion with research and teaching—a combination that provides patients with options for even the most complex situations. Members of UC Health include: UC Medical Center, West Chester Hospital, University of Cincinnati Physicians and UC Health Ambulatory Services (with more than 900 board-certified clinicians and surgeons), Lindner Center of HOPE and several specialized institutes including: UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute and the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center. Many UC Health locations have received national recognit