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Are you passionate about creating meaningful moments through recreation, creativity, and connection? The Adult Day Club is looking for a Recreation Leader Sr who brings energy, compassion, and creativity to working with seniors and adults with special needs. In this rewarding role, you’ll lead engaging recreational activities that support physical movement, cognitive stimulation, and social connection—while adapting each experience to meet the unique abilities and needs of our clients. You’ll help create a safe, nurturing, and fun environment where participants feel supported, included, and encouraged to thrive. If you enjoy making a difference through play, creativity, and care, this is an opportunity to turn your passion into purpose, one day at a time. The ideal candidate enjoys teamwork, values inclusivity and is committed to creating a positive experience for participants and their families.
This position is to fill a vacancy for an on-call position for the Adult Day Club Division.
This position does not qualify for benefits, and work is scheduled on an as-needed basis, with variable hours.
While the incumbent will primarily perform the duties of the Recreation Leader Sr. within the Adult Day Club Program, all essential functions related to the Recreation Leader Sr. position must be performed as needed.
Primary Objectives
Performs intermediate work maintaining front counter operations at Community Center; leading and overseeing a variety of recreation and activity programs at designated recreation/senior services/adult day club facility or on trips; or serving as a pre-school teacher for children 3-6 years of age; performs related tasks as apparent or assigned.
This is a safety sensitive position and is subject to random and pre-employment drug and alcohol screening.
Supervision Exercised
Supervision is exercised over subordinate personnel.
- Responsible for the development, implementation, and conduct of recreation programs and activities, including direct supervision and guidance of youth, senior and adult daycare participants.
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Prepares lesson plans and leads games and craft activities; works as primary contact at camps, during off-site trips, and as support service provider at adult daycare.
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Welcomes visitors and answers incoming telephone calls; provides information regarding activity schedules and registration requirements; processes customer registrations and inputs information into department computer system; processes customers for facility passes and photo ID's; receives funds and issues receipts; administers concession sales.
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Leads, coordinates and supervises activities and programs; assists in development of promotional brochures/flyers; provides lead direction, training and work review to assigned staff and volunteers; organizes and assigns work, sets priorities, and follows-up to ensure coordination and completion of assigned work; ensures that proper safety precautions are observed; instructs others in proper work procedures.
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Responsible for financial transactions; deposits funds; audits transactions; ensures security of cash and financial receipts.
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Performs general building maintenance and custodial upkeep ensuring cleanliness of building, including restrooms; cleans up spills and unsanitary conditions when they occur; sets up and takes down meeting rooms, including the folding and un-folding of tables; inspects and repairs equipment as necessary; operates audiovisual equipment as needed.
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Performs inspections of facility to ensure participant and customer safety and maintains a clean and organized recreational area; monitors all building participants during facility hours of operation to ensure orderly conduct.
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Maintains records of programs and activities including, but not limited to, rosters, daily roll sheets/attendance records, timecards, emergency contacts, disciplinary action, incident and accident reports, ensures up-to-date and accurate contact list for parents and/or legal guardians and ensures that participants are picked up in accordance with authorizations on file.
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Uses County vehicle to perform various tasks related to job duties.
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Periodically transports program participants and other staff in a county vehicle for off-site activities;
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Monitors trip petty cash and activities of youth during recreational trips or tours; disciplines youth participants according to established policies and procedures, as necessary.
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Contributes to the efficiency and effectiveness of the unit's service to its customers by offering suggestions and directing or participating as an active member of a team.
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Represents the County with dignity, integrity, and a spirit of cooperation in all relationships with staff and the public.
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Contributes effectively to the accomplishment of team or work unit goals, objectives, and activities.
ADDITIONAL PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Pre-school Teacher positions only
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Works closely with the Pre-school director to implement plans for special needs children; monitors the programs and ensures positive participation and behavior.
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Provides a safe and nurturing learning environment for young children between the ages of 3-6 years; develops and maintains a learning environment conducive to growth in the areas of physical, cognitive, and social disciplines; records observations, implements assessments, sets goals for individual children, and prepares group lesson plans and activities accordingly.
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Demonstrates the ability to positively interact with children; communicates verbally and in writing with children and their parents/legal guardians.
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Recognizes health and safety hazards and protects children from harm; encourages and provides children with a variety of opportunities for learning and for social experiences; adapts and responds to changing and challenging conditions in ways that enhance program quality.
Adult Day Club position only
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Leads clients in adult recreational activities (i.e. chair or laughter yoga, stretching, board games, brain health stimulation exercises, arts & craft projects, woodworking, music therapy or similar activities), with the ability to adapt based on the client's individualized needs and cognitive and physical function and/or limitations.
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Re-direct clients while engaging in activities.
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Determines programming levels of all clients, adapting as needed based on behaviors and participation.
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Maintains a safe and nurturing environment for adults with special needs.
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Provides assistance with activities of daily living skills to clients, which can include feeding assistance, toileting, ambulation, hygiene care, and behavior redirection.
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Communicates clearly with other staff and volunteers regarding activity program and client needs.
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Provides daily records by documenting the client's activities, noting any concerns or observations.
WORKING CONDITIONS
The characteristics listed below are representative of the physical demands, physical agility, sensory requirements, and environmental exposures required by an individual to successfully perform the essential duties of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
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This work requires the frequent exertion of up to 25 pounds of force and the occasional exertion of up to 100 pounds of force.
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Work frequently requires standing, walking, sitting, speaking or hearing, using hands, climbing or balancing, kneeling or crawling, reaching with hands and arms, tasting or smelling, pushing or pulling and repetitive motions.
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Work has standard vision requirements; vocal communication is required for conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly; hearing is required to receive detailed information through oral communication and/or to make fine distinctions in sound.
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Work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts, use of measuring devices, assembly or fabrication of parts within arms length and observing general surroundings and activities.
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Work is generally in a loud noise location (e.g. crowds, heavy traffic, large equipment).
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Work occasionally requires exposure to wet/humid conditions (non-weather), exposure to outdoor weather conditions and exposure to bloodborne pathogens (may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Continued employment is contingent upon all required licenses and certificates being maintained in active status without suspension or revocation.
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Employment is contingent upon successful completion of background/screening.
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Douglas County participates in E-Verify and will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each applicant’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. All candidates who are offered employment must complete Section 1 of the Form I-9 along with the required proof of their right to work in the United States and proof of their identity prior to starting employment. Please be prepared to provide required documentation as soon as possible after the job offer is made.
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This job description indicates, in general, the nature and levels of work, knowledge, skills, abilities and other essential functions expected of the incumbent. The duties listed above are intended onl
