Valley View Senior Life is anything but a traditional “nursing home”. Director Tyrone Wilkens said that they are technically called a continuing care retirement community, or CCRC.

“We’re a skilled nursing facility, a VA contract facility for veterans; we accept Medicaid, Medicare and obviously private pay [insurance],” said Wilkens. “We also have assisted living units and we also have independent living; everything is right there on the campus and that’s where you get the continued care retirement concept.”

Individual living is open to individuals 55 and over.

“[They can] rent an apartment and live there and be a part of that campus, and do as much as they want or as little as they want,” said Wilkens. “That’s what unique about some of those things [we offer] with our culinary skills that we have on campus to create different food platters and activities within the community.”

The unique retirement facility will host a career fair on Wednesday, June 7th.

Marketing Director Melissa Tyson said interviews will be conducted on site. “We welcome all positions that Valley View has to offer, RNs, LPNs, CNAs and we’ll also be hiring for dining services and hospitality services.”

Wilkens noted that for those looking for employment, this shows that there is job opportunity locally. “It just takes a little bit of everything to run a large campus like that and we’re reaching out to the community to let them know we have some opportunity out there for them.”

The career fair will be from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm on Wednesday, June 7th. Valley View is located at 1417 W Ash Street in Junction City.