Activities Coordinator

Activities Coordinator - Care

21hrs/week, 3 or 4 days over 7 days per week; £11.61/hr with Time and a Quarter for Overtime

• Is it an interest of yours that residents receive high-quality support and stimulation
• Are you a dynamic person capable of shifting the mood in a room with your enthusiasm and positive energy
• Are you willing and eager to become the best version of yourself

Job Purpose:

As an Activity Co-ordinator, you will enhance the wellbeing of our client’s residents through providing a stimulating range of activities. This ensures their homes are happy, interesting places to be. Your role will involve getting to know the residents so that you can plan, organise and co-ordinate activities to suit the residents’ individual needs. Our client will look to you to think creatively to develop a diverse and engaging programme.

Key Responsibilities:

• To lead and participate in enhancing the intellectual and social wellbeing of the residents to provide as far as possible, a happy and stimulating experience. Help residents to socialise within the care home.
• Encourage staff members, relatives, and friends to participate in the home’s activities.
• To plan weekly/monthly activity rotas in conjunction with the residents wishes and encourage residents to participate in group activities.
• To plan, organise and lead the homes special events such as summer fetes, coffee mornings etc.
• To source aids and equipment for activities/events within a specified budget.
• Develop and foster good community relations and organise fund raising initiatives within the home.
• Be understanding and patient towards residents and their needs, and encourage, assist, and support residents to participate in leisure activities as appropriate to the individual, ensuring their social and emotional needs are met. This also includes escorting residents to outside activities and leisure outings.

Our client owns and operates a 67 bed all en-suite residential care facility specialising in dementia care for the elderly, they pride themselves on person-centred quality care tailored to every resident who resides with them.

They are a family-run business that ensures both the standard of care given to residents and the staff culture their care homes cultivate is in line with the compassionate, familial ethos upon which the company was founded.