Posted 2 months ago
Activity Aide - Part-Time 45 Hours Biweekly
@ Hawthorne Place Care Centre
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Hawthorne Place Care Centre is hiring a part-time Activity Aide working 45 hours biweekly. The role plans and runs recreation programs for residents, supports their well-being, and provides personal care with sensitivity.
Responsibilities:
- Plan and run recreation programs for residents
- Set up program areas and organize supplies
- Track attendance and document participation
- Encourage residents to attend and help them get to programs
- Provide personal and physical care with sensitivity
Requirements summary:
- Read, write and understand English
- Highly organized, works independently
- Excellent communication skills
- Enjoys working with older adults
- Ability to lift up to 15 lbs
- College diploma in leisure services an asset
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Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · ultipro
- Employer posting date
- 2026-09-08
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-16
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Job details
| Seniority | Entry level |
| Department | Customer service |
| Hours per week | 22.5 |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Care home |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical moderate · lift 15 lb · computer low |
| Languages | English |
| Licences & certifications | Vulnerable sector screening, TB test, Chest X-Ray |
| Education | College diploma (preferred) |
| Fields of study | Leisure services |
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Hawthorne Place Care Centre
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 10 |
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Recreation Aide reports to the Recreation Manager and is expected to demonstrate commitment to resident well-being while focusing on emotion based person centered care by implementing high-quality activities in accordance with the organization's vision and mission.
Responsibilities:
- Assist the Recreation Manager in calendar planning and program development of recreation activities designed to meet individual needs and interests, according to established standards.
- Implementation and evaluation of resident’s levels of dementia.
- Mental health and younger population programming leadership skills.
- Willingness to make meaningful connections with residents.
- Know how to and demonstrate evidence of increasing an individual's well-being and meeting residents where they are at.
- Organize supplies and equipment as needed
- Set up program area as needed
- Keep attendance and document Resident participation in activities
- Encourage Residents to attend programs
- Assist residents to and from programs
- Meet an individual’s physical and personal care needs to a high quality standard and with sensitivity
- Any and all other tasks as assigned
Qualifications:
The qualifications needed to join our family are as follows:
- Ability to read, write and understand English
- Highly organized and able to work independently
- Excellent communication skills
- Must enjoy working with the elderly in a setting that promotes optimum independence, dignity and respect
- Ability to use your imagination to engage others
- Must have high energy and a sense of fun
- Ability to lift up to 15 lbs
- Ability to have meaningful engagements with others
- A college diploma in leisure services an asset
- Clear vulnerable sector screening (w/ in last 6 months), recent TB test results (w/ in last 6 months) or Chest X-Ray (w/ in last 1 yr), and two supervisory references required
- Experience in or a willing interest to engage with using music in care would be an asset.
What do we offer you?
- Competitive wages
- Employee perks
- Support for personal and professional growth
- Employee and Family Assistance Program
We appreciate all applicants' interest, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.
We are committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace, and we welcome applications from all persons. Our organization takes the accessibility needs of employees and candidates with disabilities into account during the position summary review process. Employees and candidates are required to notify their Director/Manager/Supervisor or Hiring Manager if they have any accessibility needs, and the organization will work with the employee to address them.
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