Activity Assistant in Amherst, NY

Salary Range: $19.00/hour

Fallon Health offers a Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) to serve the health needs of dual-eligible residents of the greater Buffalo area including Erie and Niagara counties.

Activity Assistant
Serves as a member of the PACE interdisciplinary team assessing the needs, interests, and capabilities of participants and developing individualized therapeutic recreational care plans based on individual diagnoses and assessments.

Plans, organizes, directs, and participates in a comprehensive therapeutic recreation program tailored to the general and individualized needs and limitations of participants within an “active ageing” mindset in which policies and programs that promote mental health and social connections are as important as those that improve physical health status.

$ 19.00 per hour
No Nights No weekends

Qualifications:
Education:
High school Graduate or GED

License/Certification:
Access to reliable transportation. Willingness to occasionally assist other FHW PACE centers either in person or remotely, as appropriate, when there is an opening or a gap in coverage.

Experience:
One or more years of experience in an activities program in a health care setting providing services to a frail or elderly population within the last 5 year.
CPR and Alzheimers certifications, or willingness to be certified, is preferred

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