This position is responsible for providing recreational opportunities for Life Adjustment clients in Residential or Adult Day Services.

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ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Employee must have regular attendance/punctuality, be able to cooperate with others, and be completely honest.

1. Organizing and facilitating activities both on and off the Bacon Campus for LAP clients.
2. Assisting clients in preparing for recreational outings, loading and unloading clients for transportation to and from outings, interacting with clients during activities, etc.
3. Providing behavior intervention as necessary.
4. Providing skilled care and vocational training as necessary.
5. Assisting client by feeding them, helping them in the restroom, driving them to appointments, helping them do their shopping, etc.
6. Assisting staff with planning and facilitating recreational activities and fitness exercises, including preparing meals for recreational outings.
7. Maintaining professional boundaries with all clients enrolled in any Hilltop program or residing at any of Hilltop's facilities, all the while maintaining the dignity, confidentiality, privacy and rights of every client.
8. Issuing medications as required and maintaining records in accordance with specified procedures.
9. Completing required documentation promptly, accurately, and legibly
10. Maintaining equipment and supplies and reporting damaged equipment to appropriate personnel.
11. Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

QUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and /or ability required.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or six months to one year related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS PREFERRED:
Education: QMAP, Licensed Psychiatric Technician, Licensed Physical Therapy Aide.
Experience: 1 year or more experience working with Brain Injured population.
Other: Current Life Guard Certification

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Must be able to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, as well as Hilltop and program specific policies and procedures. Must be able to write routine documentation as required. Must be able to verbally communicate effectively with clients and co-workers.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Must be able to add and subtract two digit numbers, and to multiply and divide by 10’s and 100’s. Must be able to perform these operations using units of American money, weight measurements, volume measurement, and distance. Must be able to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

REASONING ABILITY
Must be able to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Must be able to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
• CPR Certificate/First Aid Certificate
• Colorado Driver’s License
• Medication Administration Certification
• Certificate from Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI Training).

CLEARANCES
The following background checks are conducted by Hilltop Community Resources:
• Criminal background

EXPOSURE CATEGORY: [ 2 ]
1) - Job tasks involve exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissue.
2) - Job tasks involve no exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissue, but employment may require unplanned category 1 exposure.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Mobility:
• Must be able to stand 30% of the time; sit 10% of the time; walk 60% of the time.
• Climbing (ascends or descends ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, etc., using feet and legs and/or hands and arms).
• Balancing (maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching, or running on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces).
• Stooping (bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist).
• Kneeling (bending legs at knees to come to rest on knee or knees).
• Crouching (bending body downward and forward by bending legs and spine).
• Crawling (moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet).
• Reaching (extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction).

Dexterity:
• Handling (seizing, holding, grasping, turning or otherwise working with hand or hands).
• Fingering (picking, pinching, or otherwise working primarily with fingers).
• Feeling (perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture, by touching with skin, particularly that of the fingertips).

Lifting:
• Must be able to exert up to 50 pounds of force to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects.

Communication:
• Must be able to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word. Must be able to clearly understand the English language and be understood while speaking the English language. Must be able to give instructions to others accurately, loudly, or quickly.

Hearing:
• Must be able to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Must be able to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

Taste/Smell:
• Must be able to distinguish, with a degree of accuracy, differences or similarities in intensity or quality of flavors and/or odors, or recognize particular flavors and/or odors, using the tongue and/or nose.

Vision: Must have the following vision abilities:
• Close vision (clear at 20 inches or less).
• Far vision (clear at 20 feet or more).
• Depth perception (Three-dimensional vision. The ability to judge distances and spatial relationships so as to see objects where and as they actually are.)
• Ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).
• Color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors).
• Field of vision (observing an area that can be seen up and down or right or left while eyes are fixed in a given point).

Physical effort:
• Heavy work (position requires strenuous physical work. Heavy lifting, pushing or pulling of objects up to 100 pounds occasionally and/or up to 50 pounds frequently).

WORK ENVIRONMENT The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Physical surroundings:
• 50% of time is spent indoors; 50% of time is spent outdoors.
• Occasionally exposed to physically and/or verbally aggressive clients.
• The noise level is usually moderate.