Recreation Coordinator

**RECREATION COORDINATOR - Permanent Full Time**

**Position #**: 181679

**Expected Start Date**:June 16, 2025

**Union**:CUPE

**Facility: Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home Inc.**

**City/Town**:Regina

**Department: Recreation**

**Type: Permanent Full Time**

**Expected Up to Date**:
**FTE: 1.0**

**Hours of Work**:28 shifts of 8.5 hours in 6 week

**Relief**:No

**Salary or Pay Band**:Pay Band 13 $ 27.99 to $ 30.00 (3 step range)

**Required Qualifications**

Therapeutic Recreation Diploma

**Knowledge Skills and Abilities**
- Ability to work independently
- Basic computer skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication skills
- Organizational skills
- Valid driver's license, where required.

**Key Activities**:
**Activities / Events**:

- Develops, plans, organizes, schedules and delivers recreational programs and activities for clients/patients/residents.
- Coordinates and arranges for portering/transportation for clients/patients/residents (e.g., medical appointments, facility functions)
- Ensures recreation areas are secured to match the cognitive/physical needs of clients/patients/residents.
- Validates and arranges resident-specific activities
- Coordinates various services (e.g., library, pastoral care and volunteers).
- Coordinates and provides set up, decorating and clean up following activities.
- Maintains activity and storage areas.
- Attends to client/patient/resident individual needs and interests (e.g., shopping/social functions, beauty services).
- Maintains communications through a variety of means
- Advocates on behalf of clients/patients/residents.
- Records client activity.
- Provides program direction to clients/patients/residents and volunteers.
- Coordinates virtual visits (e.g., Face time, Zoom).

**Coordination / Administration**
- Plans volunteer programs
- Assists with recruitment, interviewing, onboarding and scheduling volunteer applicants
- Provides occasional guidance to the primary function of others, including training.
- Schedules and coordinates volunteers.
- Provides input into budget and ensures compliance within budget guidelines.
- Orders, purchases and maintains supplies and equipment.
- Provides input into and ensures compliance with policies and procedures.
- Acts as a liaison with other departments.

**Evaluation / Documentation**
- Evaluates and documents client/patient/resident needs and abilities.
- Develops goals and assessment process for each activity carried out.
- Evaluates programs.

**Communication / Public Relations**
- Acts as a liaison with clients/patients/residents, resident/family councils, families and outside agencies
- Maintain relationship with auxiliary groups, service clubs and schools.
- Participates in client/patient/resident care plans and multi-disciplinary/family meetings.
- Obtains social histories.
- Obtains consent for photos and outings.
- Takes photographs for charts, resident room doors and pharmacy identification.

**Travel Required**:No

**Other information**
- Contacts

We are a Mission Driven Long Term Care organization owned and operated by the Catholic Health Ministry of Saskatchewan. We are affiliated with the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) serving 147 residents and their families (94 LTC, 49 cognitively impaired, 4 respite). A life-giving community of care where faith and hope are affirmed.

Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Those being interviewed are required to bring a valid Criminal Record Check (CRC) to the interview; it must be dated within six (6) months and include a vulnerable sector search.
- We work together to improve our health and well-being. Every day. For everyone. _

We are committed to building a representative, diverse, inclusive, and culturally responsive workforce.

We are committed to the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Calls to Action.

We work in the spirit of truth and reconciliation, acknowledging Saskatchewan as the traditional territory of First Nations and Métis People.