Job Description
$18.15 - $27.23 Hourly $37,752 - $56,628 Annually This position is a Pay Band C3 Posting Details THIS POSTING WILL BE USED FOR ONGOING RECRUITMENT AND MAY CLOSE AT ANY TIME. APPLICANT LISTS MAY BE SCREENED MORE THAN ONCE. THIS POSTING MAY BE USED TO FILL MULTIPLE POSITIONS. POSITION IS LOCATED IN TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, NM The New Mexico State Veterans¿ Home is located on sixteen picturesque acres in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. It provides long-term and skilled nursing services for honorably discharged veterans, their spouses, or parents of veterans killed in combat action. The facility has 131 nursing home, skilled-nursing living beds. Services for residents are provided 24/7, focusing on maintaining or improving their physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being under a personalized plan of care developed by licensed health professionals Why does the job exist? To work under the direction of the Recreation Director in a long-term care facility to assist in organizing, promoting, implementing and conducting recreational therapy programs and lead and direct residents, with various levels of ability, in recreational activities as part of a therapeutic medical/psychotherapeutic treatment program. To perform daily assessments of residents¿ level of participation in recreational programs, appropriateness of program for each resident, progress or lack of progress towards established therapeutic goals and documentation of observations. How does it get done? Carry out therapeutic recreational programs for groups of residents and for individual residents assigned by supervisor. This may include but is not limited to outdoor activities, community events, physical activity programs (sports, games/group games, dancing, aquatic programs), creative expressive programs (dramatics, music, arts and crafts) and programs involving animals (pet therapy) Prepares and adm