The Recreation Coordinator is responsible for planning, promoting, implementing and evaluating therapeutic recreational programming, ensuring that recreational programming meets the client’s needs and care requirements. This role is also responsible for delivering recreational program reports, input, and/or feedback to the Program Manager, and for running recreational programs within a budget framework.
The Recreational Coordinator supports the Program Manager in the delivery of recreational programming as required by program contracts, client needs, and/or external stakeholder expectations. The Recreational Coordinator works collaboratively with other program staff members to ensure the delivery of high-quality client care and effective/efficient functionality of the program.
CORE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES- Conducts client assessments within the scope of recreational activity needs
- Develops client recreational care plans based on assessment results
- Plans recreational activities in keeping with client needs
- Promotes recreational activities within the location
- Delivers, or coordinates the delivery of, individual recreational activities
- Creates recreational activity calendars and posts within the location
- Evaluates overall recreational programming, adjusting or improving as needed
- Maintains accurate statistics and participation records
- Collaborates with the client and/or other members of the interdisciplinary team to develop, evaluate and modify plan of care to achieve identified client goals
- Completes documentation on client charts, maintaining specific professional, contractual or program charting requirements
- Coordinates external activity service providers (e. g. entertainers)
- Responsible for tracking and reporting recreational activity costs, reporting costs to Program Manager on a regular basis
- Responsible for ensuring recreational activities are planned within a pre-determined budget allotment
CORE COMPENTENCIES- Regularly demonstrates our mission, vision and values:
- Support compassionate care, faith and diversity
- Deliver quality care, pursue and share knowledge, respect diversity, remain faithful
- Commit to working everyday with dignity, respect, service, justice, responsibility and enquiry
- Ability to work collaboratively with others; sharing expertise and drawing on the expertise of others
- Actively promotes a healthy, supportive and inclusive work environment
- Proactively contributes to initiatives, supporting and encouraging positive change
- Ability to engage in effective problem solving, possess logic and analytical thinking
- Skilled at thinking about creative solutions to complex problems
- Solid team-based approach to every day work activities
- Superior communication skills both verbal and written, with an excellent customer service mind set
- Positive and professional, with a “can do” attitude
- Willingness to regularly go the extra mile and actively support co-workers/direct reports
- Ability to demonstrate client centered focus in all activities
- Strong abilities in program planning, implementation, evaluation
- Proven budgetary skills
- Superior organizational and planning skills
- Proven ability to be detailed oriented
- Maintaining on-going compliance to corporate policies and procedures, health and safety regulations, and relevant external standards
- Participating fully in both internal and external training requirements
- Participating fully in corporate quality initiatives
- Maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of all personal health records (including both client and personal), and following all the privacy and confidentiality requirements of any and all electronic medical record systems used (including but not limited to Procura and HPG)
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- College level recreational diploma, required
- University level recreational or related degree, an asset
- 1-3 years of related working experience, required
- Current First Aid Certificate, preferred
- Current CPR Certificate, preferred
- Training in Gentle Persuasion Approach or other non-violent crisis intervention, preferred
- Experience working in a unionized environment, as asset
- Excellent understanding of MS office software including excel spreadsheets, preferred
- Previous experience working in a behavioural or dementia care facility
- Previous experience working in an Integrated Community Care model or hospital setting, preferred
- Familiar with Procura software, preferred
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St. Joseph’s Home Care is an equal opportunity employer, committed to equity, inclusiveness, and diversity across all our programs, practices, facilities, and team. AI is not used in our recruitment processes for the selection of candidates.
If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, such as alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms, please inform the hiring manager before your interview. Should you wish to conduct your interview in French, kindly contact our head office to arrange this in advance. |
