Life Engagement Director

Company: Oxford Glen at Carrollton
Location: Carrollton
Posted on: September 13, 2020

Job Description:

This position develops, plans, and facilitates life engagement programming for the residents of the community based on their rights, needs, and preferences with the concepts of independence, individuality, dignity, and privacy in a homelike environment.

Essential Functions

Life Engagement Programming

Develop, coordinate, and facilitate life engagement programming in conjunction with individual residents’ negotiated service agreements. Based on resident occupancy, LED will be directly responsible for resident engagement events approximately 3 days a week

Lead and provide supervision to other Life Engagement team members outlining a clear plan to meet and or achieve goals and outcomes

Lead and develop all aspects of the day stay program in conjunction with other team members

Assume primary responsibility for planning and facilitating all life engagement, family and in-house marketing events. Communicate all large life engagement events with the Community Sales Director in the event that they would want to invite prospects to these events

Create 1-2 posts on community Facebook page each week of happy residents, community events, and general reminders for families in accordance with Company social media guidelines. Photos of happy residents should be uploaded multiple times each month to reassure families, promote life engagement at your buildings, and improve search results

Maintain a record of all team members’ and residents’ photo releases at the community—with a clear understanding of any and all team members and residents who do not want their names and photographs published

Responsible for implementation, maintaining, communicating and training software used for life engagement purposes

Customer Service

Continually observe resident satisfaction with life engagement programming and look for opportunities to engage resident families for feedback regarding individual resident preferences

Communicate with community leadership and resident families regarding successes and challenges observed while facilitating programs

Arrange and Supervise the Transportation of residents and the process of transportation

Market appropriate life engagement events, including Alzheimer’s support groups on free event listing including G5 and Facebook. Assistance is available from the Home Office via the marketing assistant

Participate in weekly event planning calls with the Community Sales Director and Vice President of Marketing and Brand to brainstorm life engagement and marketing events and communicate life engagement needs to the Home Office marketing office

Participate in quarterly strategic/marketing planning meetings

Educate residents, resident families, community leaders, and team members on the importance of life engagement programming

Serve as a resource for team members regarding opportunities for additional informal life engagement activities outside of the scheduled programming

Successful Behavioral Attributes at Oxford Senior Living

Humility : Share credit, emphasize team, and define success collectively rather than individually

Positive Attitude : Display a “can-do” attitude focused on providing solutions

Initiative : Action-oriented commitment to continuous improvement in all aspects of the business

Emotional Intelligence : Serve the community by placing the needs of the community team members and residents ahead of your own

Minimum Qualifications

High School Diploma or G.E.D.

Two (2) years of experience facilitating life engagement or activities programming for groups

Valid Driver’s License

Preferred Qualifications

Related education or certification in the areas of life engagement, recreational therapy, or activities programming.

Physical Working Requirements

While performing essential job function, the employee is frequently required to be able to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, do repetitive movement, sit and lift up to 50 lbs.

Ability to read and interpret documents, have common sense understanding, and perform basic mathematics

Have vision and hearing adequate to perform essential job functions

Follow OSHA guidelines and universal precautions

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