Activities Coordinator – Brain Injury Services

We want you to join our team! We need deeply compassionate, committed and highly talented staff.  The Woods organization is guided by their mission to support children and adults with disabilities or challenges to achieve their highest potential and independence through innovative and individualized approaches that promote learning and personal fulfillment.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Life and Disability Insurance
• PTO - Paid time off
• On-site medical center
• 403b retirement plan
• Continuing education programs
• Tuition-assisted program
• Career growth opportunities

Salary: Starting at $18 - $21 / hour - depending on education / experience 

Job Summary

Responsible for daily operation of the InSPIRE Program, a structured day program for individuals with acquired brain injuries. The program coordinator will provide leisure and recreational activities as well as creative arts & music, facilitating participation of Members to achieve their maximum potential. Plans, implements and monitors service delivery and ensures high quality services and compliance with regulation and standard practices.  

• Develops creative social group activities that promote social skills training, sensory/motor development, and reduction/elimination of maladaptive behavior.  Evaluates skills necessary for performing those activities, and breaks activities down into components that each Member can perform.
  Utilizes cognitive, behavioral, and physical rehabilitation techniques as well as task analysis in doing group facilitation.
  Determines the need for environmental modifications, adaptive equipment and compensatory strategies including assistive technology and assists in obtaining and implementing these adaptations with emphasis on Members being able to maximize their performance.
  Responsible for the weekly monitoring and documentation of Members’ activities in the Clubhouse.
• Schedules and implements new cultural, athletic, educational and therapeutic performances, workshops and activities that meet the needs and interests of all Members. Facilitates community relations, partnerships, and program support for the implementation of activities for Members.
• Provides brain injury skills training, assistance and/or supervision to Members in the areas of daily living, personal care, social integration, and community assimilation utilizing compensatory strategies developed by the Transdisciplinary Rehab Team.
• Assures that therapeutic goals and objectives will be designed to promote community reintegration, teaching concepts such as task completion, problem solving, safety, and money management, in accordance with the Member’s RSP.
• Directs Life Skill Trainers (LST’s) and 1:1 Personal Care Aides (1:1 PCA’s) to provide support to Members and group facilitation assistance as needed.
• Ensures compliance with applicable standards and service definitions: Woods, Beechwood NeuroRehab, DOL, DHS, and CARF standards.
• Attends and participates in Transdisciplinary Team Meetings for assigned Members, including ITCs, RSPs, PRCs.
• Attends and participates in required training sessions, staff meetings, and special assignments as required. Assists in program evaluation and program development activities to make the program best meet the needs of the Members.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• InSPIRE Program Coordinator II
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Recreation/Art/Music Therapy or related Human Services field. Preferred Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist.  
  • Experience in creative arts, music, adaptive sports, and/or recreation therapy with adults with acquired brain injury preferred. 
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office (especially Word, Excel, Publisher, and Power Point)
  • Articulate, creative, outgoing individual with strong organization and communication skills (written and oral), capable of working with varied personalities.
  • Valid driver’s license: must pass Smith Training and Woods Goshen.
  • Demonstrate the ability to physically lift/transfer a minimum of 50 pounds
  • Must complete Chapters 1-12 of ACBIS training within 1^st year of employment.  
•  InSPIRE Program Coordinator III
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Recreation/Art/Music Therapy or related Human Services field. Preferred Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist
  • Experience in creative arts, music, adaptive sports, and/or recreation therapy with adults with acquired brain injury preferred. 
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office (especially Word, Excel, Publisher, and Power Point)
  • Articulate, creative, outgoing individual with strong organization and communication skills (written and oral), capable of working with varied personalities. 
  • Valid driver’s license: must pass Smith Training and Woods Goshen.
  • Demonstrate the ability to physically lift/transfer a minimum of 50 pound
  • Must complete Chapters 1-24 of ACBIS training and pass CBIS Certification test and maintain certification within 1^st year of employment.
  • Experience in creative arts, music, adaptive sports, and/or recreation therapy preferred. Brain Injury Experience preferred. 
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office (especially Word, Excel, Publisher, and Power Point)
  • Articulate, creative, outgoing individual with strong organization and communication skills (written and oral), capable of working with varied personalities. 
  • Valid driver’s license: must pass Smith Training and Woods Goshen.
  • Able to lift and transfer a minimum of 50 pounds, be agile, physically pursue clients on foot, bend, squat, reach, push up and stand for several hours at a time.

About Woods Services

Woods Services is a Pennsylvania and New Jersey-based non-profit population health network and advocacy organization that along with its six affiliate organizations provides life-long innovative, comprehensive and integrated health, education, housing, workforce, behavioral health and case management services to more than 22,000 children and adults in the intellectual and developmental disability, child welfare, behavioral and brain trauma public health sectors who have complex and intensive medical and behavioral healthcare needs.

Our Langhorne campus is home to 550 residents, and provides outpatient and day programs.