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Recreation Aide Temporary Full Time - LTC

Kitchener, ON
Mid Level
full_time

Top Benefits

Ongoing education & training
Advancement opportunities
Health & wellness benefits

About the role

The Village of Winston Park, located in Kitchener, Ontario has an exciting opportunity for a Temporary Full Time Recreation Team Member (REC) to join their LTC Team.

Shift Details: 75 hrs biweekly until December 31st, open availability is required (including alternate weekends), shift timings may vary, schedule is given every 2 weeks. January 1st onwards, the successful candidate will continue as a permanent casual team member.

How Schlegel Villages supports our Team Members:

  • Ongoing Education & Training
  • Opportunities for Advancement
  • Health & Wellness Benefits
  • Employee & Family Assistance Program
  • Vacation
  • Retirement Savings
  • Access to The Wilfred Schlegel Hope Fund
  • Discounts at Village Services
  • Team appreciation events

As a New Recreation Team Member, you will:

  • Be enrolled in/completed diploma or degree recreation/leisure studies and/or gerontology from a community college or university
  • Display a caring and respectful attitude toward our residents, families, and team members
  • Experience facilitating group activities and programs
  • Experience facilitating group activities
  • Have exceptional time management skills and ability to work in collaboration with a team
  • Support and embrace our resident-centered social culture and be proud to deliver the highest quality of customer service to our residents

As a new Recreation Team Member (REC) joining our Retirement Village Team it would be an ASSET but not required for you to having the following:

  • Knowledge of the five domains in Therapeutic Recreation that contribute to an individual’s health
  • Knowledge of recreational therapy practices, methods, techniques and opportunities to improve resident’s well-being and holistic health

Schlegel Villages will provide training to the successful candidate:

You can be you while being a part of our family.

At Schlegel Villages we are redefining elder care through innovation, village design and culture change, but we know the key to our Village success, and our residents’ satisfaction, is YOU and our teams.

We aspire to provide all members of our communities, including team members, with a life enriching experience. We are family owned and operated and we take our mission seriously: “to provide holistic health care in a home environment, located within an internal neighborhood design that promotes a caring community with emphasis on optimal health and life purpose for each resident”.

Schlegel Villages is pleased to accommodate individual needs in accordance with the Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA), within our recruitment process. If you require accommodations for the interview, be certain to let us know.

Equity, diversity and inclusion are ingrained within the Schlegel Culture, and our Villages are more welcoming, open-hearted and vibrant because of it.

Just as the Canadian mosaic is all the more special because of its many unique colours, each Village is strengthened by the unique lived experience of every person connected to it. Everyone is included and respected in their spirituality, cultural diversity and individuality.

Regardless of ability, heritage or cultural roots, our people are embraced, just as they are, and we celebrate and support life purpose within the community.

We’d love to talk to you about what makes us different.

About Schlegel Villages

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Canadian owned and operated, Schlegel Villages manages high quality long term care and retirement Villages across Ontario. Our Villages benefit from the Schlegel family having over 70 years of direct experience co-owning, managing and operating Long Term Care and Retirement Communities in Ontario.

The Schlegel Family’s overarching mission is to build and strengthen community. One very important and tangible way of building community is by providing care and quality of life for older adults, which we have been doing for 70 years.

Our central belief is that elders should be kept at the centre of our communities, not relegated to the periphery. The Villages we create are places where elders can live a life of meaning and purpose while continuing to stay connected and contributing to the broader community.

Discover your story of growth at www.schlegelvillages.com/careers