Recreation Instructor

Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your career, while working with an extraordinary team?  At Merakey, we put heart and soul into everything we do. We are seeking a Recreation Instructor to join our team, at the program in Crafton, PA.

Earn $23.00/hour with the selection of the Enhanced Pay Option.

This is professional work in teaching recreation and swimming to developmentally disabled individuals. This employee is primarily responsible for developing and maintaining the residents gross, fine, and perceptual motor skills through structured class and leisure time activities and through assessments.

He/She will also assist with swimming programs for therapeutic purposes, teach cooperation, sportsmanship, fair play, and provide healthful recreational outlets for residents.  Work is performed under the direction of the Program Director.

Share in the development of classes and programs that are developmental in regard to the residents’ functioning level and skill abilities.

• Develop and implement assessments evaluating residents’ gross, fine, fitness, perceptual motor and
• swimming abilities.
• Develop a system for class scheduling and participation and be consistent with techniques and methods
• used in recreation classes.
• Develop, organize and implement leisure interest clubs, i.e., Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.
• Devise, implement and document individual and activity goal plans and Behavior Management Plans.
• Maintain records of resident participation.
• Prepare periodic evaluations of residents’ progress and response to programming and participate as an
• integral member in the interdisciplinary staffing of the residents.
• Plan, develop, implement, organize and supervise programs of team and individual sports with carryover
• to spectator sports and Special Olympics.
• Assists with feeding programs during residents’ meal times.

Merakey is a non-profit provider of developmental, behavioral health, and education services. More than 8,000 employees provide support to nearly 40,000 individuals and families throughout 12 states across the country each year. Click here to watch a video about Merakey. Merakey strictly follows a zero-tolerance policy for abuse.

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• A Bachelors Degree in Recreation Therapy, Physical Education or other related field
• WSI, Advanced Lifesaving and Adapted Aquatics Instructor Certificate is preferred.