Director of Community Life/Activities Director at Valora of Orono

Are you compassionate towards others?  Are you passionate about enriching the lives of others?  If so, we want you to join our team and help seniors Age Magnificently!  Our Community Life Directors becomes family and impacts the lives of our residents who live in a Lifespark Senior Living Community.  Valora Orono, a new Lifespark Senior Living Community, is looking for a Director of Community Life/Activities Director to join our growing team!

Valora Orono is nestled in the pristine Orono community, just minutes from the charm of downtown Wayzata, Lake Minnetonka, and Long Lake. Our community is conveniently located on Kelley Parkway in Orono. We are just a short drive from downtown Wayzata and Long Lake, easily accessible from US-12 / I-394. We help seniors Age Magnificently in our 72- unit apartment-style community providing Independent Living, Assisted Living, and Memory Care services.  Join our team today!

Position: Director of Community Life/Activities Director

Hourly: $25.00 - $28.00 hourly, depending on experience

Service Area: 2635 Kelley Parkway, Orono, MN 55356

Schedule: 1.0 FTE, Full - Time / Monday – Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm (MOD weekend rotation)

Lifespark Benefits Include:   

• Annual Reviews/Raises {Shift differentials if applicable} 
• Paid Time Off – Vacation Time 
• Mileage reimbursement
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for Full Time Hires 
• Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance 
• Life Insurances 
• 401k + Company Match for full-time and part-time employees 
• Referral bonuses 
• Career path to other positions within our growing company! 

Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we’ve been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That’s where our people come in – from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently.

Position Duties & Responsibilities:

In this position you will ensure the development, organization and coordination of facility and community resources to provide comprehensive Wellness/Recreation/Activity Services and programs that meet the needs and interests of each tenant. Our Community Life Director provides an ongoing program of community life activities. These activities are designed to meet, in accordance with the comprehensive Recreation/Wellness Assessment, the interests and preferences to encompass the Physical, Social, Intellectual, Emotional, Spiritual, Vocational, and Environmental well-being of each tenant.

Duties Include:

• Provide a Community Life program daily including evenings and weekends.
• Purchase and maintain equipment and supplies and provide for their accessibility through organized storage.
• Establishes Conduct, attend and participate in orientation, training, in-service education activities and staff meetings as assigned to maintain compliance.
• Communicate programs and develop positive relations with tenants, family, and volunteers.
• Ability to train and motivate others while acting as a role model and mentor.
• Must be compassionate and have a desire to make a difference in the lives of the tenants.
• Foster Family and Community support through the Community Program i.e. newsletters, networking, activities which bring Family members and members of the community into the building
• Contribute to the community efforts to maintain and / or improve quality of life and quality of care by participating in the following:
• Care conferences
• QAPI
• Department Head Meetings

Preferred Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Professional experience in health care of at least 2 years

Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace — earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 12 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare — but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark’s full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South – this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you – let’s get you hired

It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer’s premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. 

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