Life Enrichment Assistant - Legacy Village of Hendersonville : Job Details

Your job as a Life Enrichment Assistant at Dominion Senior Living is all about making our senior residents happy. You'll plan fun activities, chat with them, and be their friend. You'll create a cozy and personalized environment, ensuring everyone has a good time and feels cared for. Your main mission? To bring smiles and joy to our residents every day.

The Dominion Difference!

Are you ready to join a dynamic team driven by a shared mission to make a positive impact in the lives of seniors while upholding our faith-based values? At Dominion Senior Living, we're not just offering a job - we're offering an opportunity to be part of something deeply fulfilling. Our innovative culture-first approach ensures you'll thrive in a nurturing and collaborative workspace. As a valued member of our team, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering heartfelt care that truly matters to seniors. Our unwavering commitment to creating an atmosphere of respect, dignity, and meaningful interaction forms the very essence of our company culture. Join us in embracing a purpose-driven journey that celebrates both your professional growth and the joy of serving seniors wholeheartedly.

Why Join Dominion Senior Living:

* Meaningful Impact: As a Memory Care Life Enrichment Assistant, you will have the opportunity to make a profound and lasting impact on the lives of our residents. Your creativity and dedication will contribute to enhancing their overall quality of life.

* Supportive Community: You will be part of a close-knit and supportive community of like-minded professionals who share a passion for memory care. We foster a collaborative and inclusive environment where your insights and ideas are valued.

* Competitive pay and Benefits: Time and a Half on Holidays, Direct Deposit, and much more...

* Personal Growth: We are committed to your personal and professional growth. Through continuous learning, training, and development opportunities, you will expand your skills and expertise in memory care and therapeutic activities, plus you can earn a $1 more per hour within your first year through our Pathways Program!

* Positive Work Environment: Dominion Senior Living offers a positive and uplifting work environment that celebrates the successes, milestones, and contributions of both residents and team members. We believe in recognizing and appreciating the efforts of our dedicated team members.

* Fun and Friendships: We know how to have a good time! We host events, celebrations, and activities that bring our team together and create everlasting friendships!

* Work-Life Balance: We understand that life happens outside of work. We offer flexible scheduling options to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance.

What You'll Do:

* Plan and Play: You'll be the mastermind behind the fun and engaging activities that bring smiles to our residents' faces. From group games to one-on-one interactions, you'll help create unforgettable moments.

* Connect and Care: Get ready to build amazing relationships with our residents. You'll be the social butterfly who makes sure everyone feels like they belong to a big, caring family.

* Document and High-Five: Keep track of the good times! You'll jot down who did what and how much fun they had. Plus, you'll team up with others to make sure we're giving each resident the attention they deserve.

* Family Fun: Share the love with our residents' families too! You'll keep them in the loop and even organize cool events and hangouts to bring everyone together.

What You Bring:

* Your warm heart and a high school diploma (though a degree in something cool like Recreation Therapy, Social Work, or Psychology would be awesome too!).

* You've hung out with folks who have memory impairments such as Alzheimer's or dementia before, maybe even a grandparent or as a superhero in the senior living space.

* Chatting it up is your thing. You're a great communicator and can connect with residents, families, and your fellow team members like a pro.

* Flexibility is your middle name (well, not really, but you get what we mean). You'll rock a schedule that might include weekends and holidays because our residents deserve top-notch care every day.

* A dash of creativity and a sprinkle of patience. You'll whip up activities that suit everyone, no matter where they're at on their memory journey.

* CPR and First Aid certification (or willingness to obtain).

* Ability to pass a background check and drug screening.

Working Conditions:

The Activities Coordinator will primarily work within the memory care unit of the facility. This role involves a combination of planned activities, administrative tasks, and interaction with residents, families, and staff.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the team member regularly stands, bends, talks, hears, walks, sits, climbs stairs, stoops, uses hands and fingers to touch, handle, and feel, reaches with hands and arms, lifts and/or moves items of up to 50 pounds. The team member occasionally lifts and transfers residents, using proper body mechanics, and physically assists residents transition to wheelchairs, beds, stretchers, stationary chairs, and vehicles as needed. Vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The team member must be able to smell the odor in order to ensure resident safety and quality care.

Ready to dive in and make a splash in the memory care world? If you're up for the challenge and feel inspired by our values, our promise, and our commitment to creating a meaningful and enriching experience for seniors with memory impairments, we invite you to join our team.. Together, we can create a warm and vibrant community where residents can live each day to the fullest, surrounded by care, compassion, and purpose.

EEO Principles

The Company is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity as well as compliance with the law. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunity and to make all employment-related decisions without regard to race, color, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, status as a disabled veteran or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other legally protected status or characteristic in the state in which a team member is employed by the Company. This policy applies to recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, disciplinary action, termination, and all other personnel actions and conditions of employment.

Dominion Senior Living is proud to be a drug-free workplace. Employment with Dominion is contingent upon the successful passing of a pre-employment drug screen.