Job Description

Job Title: Activities Coordinator

Line Manager: Home Manager

Full Time 22.5 hours P/W

12.50 per hour

Overview:

As an Activities Coordinator, you will ensure all our residents enjoy a stimulating, fulfilling and happy lifestyle. You will use your experience to create and implement a wide variety of daily activities and programmes for our residents to enjoy that also encourage wellbeing, socialisation and harmony throughout our care home.

Main Purpose:

To devise, develop and supervise an appropriate activities programme.

Requirements:

To demonstrate good communication skills

To undertake training which will keep the post holder aware of issues regarding the care of service users

To demonstrate skills that enable the post holder to make links with the local community

To maintain appropriate records for each individual resident

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

To prepare and distribute a weekly programme of activities to each Service User. Prepare and display Activity Boards of the same.

Encourage Service Users to attend events and organise their transfer to the venue.

Advise staff prior to the event of details of requirements.

Ensure appropriate catering is organised and set out in a suitable manner.

Confirm details with outside entertainers and negotiate price, if applicable, to remain within the activities budget.

Organise prizes for events if required.

Attend to personal needs of Service Users such as letter writing, purchase of clothing etc.

Maintain good contracts with the community to include parish priests, PAT dogs, local day centres, and charitable / voluntary organisations.

Assist with mealtimes, breakfast duties as social activity

Carry out any other duties as well from time to time as directed.

To liaise with staff to ensure that activities take place in your absence

To assist in staff development of activities and develop their understanding of

To liaise with Manager to ensure that activity programme is being adhered to

To engage with residents, through the participation strategy, who cannot communicate their needs

To ensure that behaviour reflects ambassadorial role for Mansfield Care

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: 12.50 per hour

Expected hours: 22.5 per week

Benefits:

Company pension
Work Location: In person

Reference ID: AC-Haugh