Life Enrichment Specialist (LES)

At JJRT, a Life Enrichment Specialist is not a role you “slot into.” It is a practice, a posture, and a way of moving through the world with others. Our Life Enrichment Specialists support humans across the full arc of life from children as young as 6 to elders as old as 106. Meeting people where they are and walking alongside them through leisure, care, connection, and meaning-making.

 

This work happens in many places: community spaces, third places, homes, creative studios, outdoor environments, social groups, respite settings, and therapeutic or coaching based contexts. No two weeks look the same, and no two LES roles look identical. Many forms of Life Enrichment Specialists exist at JJRT. We are shape-shifters by design. An LES at JJRT plans like a scientist and facilitates like an artist.

 

You are expected to think critically, intentionally, and evidence-informed, observing patterns, tracking outcomes, adapting approaches, and grounding your work in theory and best practice. At the same time, you bring creativity, intuition, play, and improvisation into facilitation. You know when to follow a plan, when to let go, and when to co-create something entirely new in the moment. You understand that meaningful engagement cannot be forced, rushed, or standardized. Relational work is the foundation of this role.

 

Life Enrichment Specialists at JJRT are deeply relational practitioners. You build trust, hold space, and attune to people’s emotional, sensory, cultural, and social realities. You are not a “service provider” delivering experiences to people you are a participant in the journey, a co-creator of experiences with people. You understand power, autonomy, dignity, and consent, and you work in ways that honour lived experience and self-determination.

 

This role requires comfort and competence across diverse populations and life experiences. Our LES team works with children and youth with disabilities, neurodivergence, and mental health needs; adults navigating stress, burnout, or life transitions; and older adults experiencing cognitive change, dementia, or complex care needs. You must have experience working across age groups and abilities, and be comfortable adapting communication, environments, and expectations to meet people where they are. You understand behavior as communication and approach care through curiosity rather than compliance. Lifelong learning is not optional, it is essential.

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JJRT is a grassroots, small-business, counter-cultural organization. We operate outside of rigid systems and traditional institutional models. Life Enrichment Specialists must be curious, reflective, and committed to ongoing learning. You are someone who asks hard questions, challenges assumptions, and thinks critically about systems, care, therapy, and wellness. You are drawn to progressive, alternative, and values-driven approaches and you are comfortable working without a script. This is not a role for someone seeking routine, hierarchy, or rigid job descriptions. We are looking for people who thrive in ambiguity, complexity, and creativity. People who can hold structure and flexibility at the same time. People who are willing to think, reflect, adapt, and grow alongside the organization. This work asks you to show up fully intellectually, emotionally, and creatively while remaining grounded, professional, and ethical. If you are someone who believes that care can be relational, that leisure can be meaningful, that therapy can be human, and that community is built not prescribed this role may be a strong fit. If you are seeking predictability, top-down direction, or conventional definitions of therapy and care, this likely will not be.

 

JJRT is building something different. Our Life Enrichment Specialists are central to that work.