Activity Assistant (full time)

Position: Activities Assistant   Shifts Available: 

• Full time:  Sun - Thurs 

Salary: $18 / hour   Location: Bridgewater, NJ     LAUREL CIRCLE has been committed to enhancing the quality of life for our amazing residents for over 30 years. We are located on a beautiful 28-acre campus in Bridgewater, NJ and recently underwent an $8 million revitalization.   When you work at LAUREL CIRCLE, you have a front-row seat to the amazing life stories of the wisest people on earth. What’s more, you are part of an extraordinary company – one that’s investing in the future of senior living by investing in you. Don’t just do a job. Be part of an extraordinary life!  

You will enjoy:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life insurance 
• AD&D insurance 
• Long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) with company match 
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• Employee assistance program 
• DailyPay
• An exceptional work environment that is both engaging and fun
   

The Laurel Circle is recruiting for an Activities Assistant.  In this role you will be responsible planning, scheduling, and coordinating meaningful activities appropriate to the needs and interests of residents and conducive to their physical, mental and social well-being.
  Here are a few of the daily responsibilities of a Community Life Assistant: 

• Uses independent judgement to design, plan and facilitate various structured and impromptu programs to individuals and groups in the common areas and resident rooms.
• Escorts and ensures the safety of the residents on group trips and excursions.
• Work collaboratively with other team members, management, volunteers, and families to deliver programs and activities designed to enhance the resident experience.
• Routinely monitors changes in the resident’s needs, abilities and preferences to provide programs and activities appropriate for individual and group audiences.
• Generates program supply lists, maintains supply levels and ensures safe operation and functionality of equipment.
• Collects and records information by conducting interviews and reviewing documentation for assessments
• Consistently maintains proper documentation including daily attendance sheets, quarterly progress notes, assessment forms, service plans/care plans and generates the MDS documentation and assessments.
• Participates in team discussions regarding resident programming, monthly calendars, activity and staff scheduling, and resident issues.
• Participates in care and service conferences providing vital information to the resident and significant others regarding programming involvement.

Here are a few of the qualifications we need you to have:

• High school diploma or GED required 
• Associate’s degree preferred 
• Minimum six (6) months experience working with seniors in activities/life enrichment required

  If you're an enthusiastic, compassionate, senior care professional who is passionate about hospitality and senior engagement- please apply, we'd love to get to know you!   All new hires must be able to pass our preemployment screening process, which includes a fitness for duty physical, background check, drug test and employment references as required by a licensed residential care facility.    EEO Employer