Recreational Coordinator

Recreational Coordinator(Job Number: 25004019) Primary Location:ON-Kingston Clinical Employee Type:Full-Time Description:

Bayshore HealthCare is one of the Canada’s leading providers of home and community health care services and is a privately owned company. Bayshore HealthCare is proud to showcase its achievement as a Platinum member of Canada’s Best Managed Companies Program every year since 2006. In 2015, Bayshore achieved the designation for Best Practice Spotlight Organization from the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario. Bayshore Healthcare is also recognized as Canada’s Best Employers in Forbes 2023 list.

Person-and family-centered care (PFCC) is an approach to care that recognizes the importance of family in a patient’s life and the importance of their active involvement in planning and making decisions on health care, services and treatment, and health system reform. This approach to care provides respectful, compassionate, culturally safe, and responsive care that meets the needs, values, beliefs, and preferences of the patient, their family, and others identified as significant to their life from diverse backgrounds and settings.

The Recreation Coordinator assesses, develops, and coordinates the delivery of social, recreational, therapeutic programs consistent with the needs, interests and abilities of persons in care. Respects and promotes the dignity and individuality of each person in care by recognizing them as individuals with unique cultural, spiritual, and psycho-social needs

Education, Requirements, Skills

• Experience in assessments and building engaging programs to reflect the functional, social and wellness needs of a patient in their home environment.
• Experience in a social service or long-term care, retirement setting an asset
• Experience and skills in facilitating activation and restorative functional program and activities.
• Demonstrated experience planning programs for patients with mild-cognitive impairment and various physical and functional limitations
• Able to assist patient in their home with basic living needs ( social connections, falls prevention)
• Able to assist in functional activities (dressing, restorative activity exercise plans)
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.
• Strong computer skills ability to work in an electronic health record.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and in collaboration with others and as part of an inter-disciplinary team in the community.
• Demonstrated ability to establish workload priorities in collaboration with others.
• Creative, energetic, approachable, and highly motivated to work directly with patients in their home.
• Genuine interest in working with seniors and frail elderly population
• Current First Aid/CPR C certification.
• Physical ability to perform the duties of the position
• Attends team meetings as requested

Qualifications:

Education

• Diploma in Recreation and leisure studies, therapeutic recreation, kinesiology, or equivalent
• Gentle persuasion or Montessori preferred
• CPR/ First Aid.

Experience:

• Minimum 3 years of recreational coordinator/activation experience or equivalent relative direct patient experience.

Other Skills and Abilities

• Enjoy working with clients of all ages
• Reliability is crucial.
• Strong, communication, (oral and written) and exceptional interpersonal and decision-making skills
• Ability to handle difficult situations in an objective and consistent manner.
• Ability to work independently and to effectively collaborate with a team.
• Demonstrated basic knowledge of various software programs including word, excel and power point and proficiency with email
• Commitment to continued learning
• Current criminal reference check and vulnerable sector screen