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Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital · 11 hours ago

Wheelchair and Adaptive Sports Intern

Grand Rapids, MI

Internship

Onsite

Intern

Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital is a not-for-profit, nationally accredited rehabilitation hospital dedicated to helping patients and families rebuild their lives. The Wheelchair and Adaptive Sports Intern is responsible for the development and implementation of wheelchair and adaptive sports programs for individuals with disabilities, including volunteer supervision and collaboration with community recreation programs.

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Responsibilities

Provides adaptive sports and recreation programs

Manages all implementation aspects of teams, classes, clinics and special events; includes the management of budget for all aspects

Identifies need for adaptive sports & leisure programming for youth and adults with disabilities in the community & develops and implements adaptive sports programs accordingly

Structures programs/activities to meet specific adaptive leisure or sports goals of individuals or groups of clients served by the program/activity

Must work some evenings and weekends

Collaborates with community recreation programs to implement and further develop adaptive sport opportunities for local youth and adults with disabilities

Provides coaching and instruction on technique, equipment, and other items for participants in various community programs

Assists associations in planning and running sport clinics

Seeks opportunities to collaborate with existing community agencies to develop adapted sport programs

Performs educational responsibilities:

Provides supervision and education to volunteers as appropriate

Keeps inpatient, outpatient and TR staff informed of adapted sports opportunities available to youth and adults in the West Michigan area

Supervise student interns and fieldworkers

Provides administrative support

Develops, reviews and revises policies and procedures specific to wheelchair and adapted sport programs in conjunction with supervisor

Advises supervisor of need for supplies, personnel, equipment repair, and other matters as necessary for job performance

Works closely with the Mary Free Bed Foundation to provide data and collaborate on narrative for fundraising requests

Completes other duties as assigned

We’ll embrace all people by:

Treating everyone with dignity and respect

Opening more doors to opportunities for others to succeed

Growing talent and people

Ensuring a welcoming experience for all we serve, regardless of origin, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation or economic status

Taking action against discrimination

Honoring our differences and how we collaborate

Educating staff, patients and the communities we care for

Restoring Hope and Freedom, together

Demonstrate excellent customer service and standards of behaviors as well as encourages, coaches, and monitors the same in team members

This individual should consistently promote teamwork and direct communication with co-workers and deal discretely and sensitively with confidential information

Contribute by identifying problems and seeking solutions

Promote patient/family satisfaction where possible; participates in departmental efforts to monitor and report customer service

Qualification

Sports managementRecreational therapyVolunteer supervisionAdaptive sports programmingAutonomous functioningProfessional association membershipEquipment adaptation knowledgeInterpersonal skills