Activities Assistant - Care Home

Barchester Healthcare; Bath; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking care home as an Activities Assistant, where your creativity and empathy will shine. This role allows you to make a real difference in residents' lives by providing engaging activities and fostering connections with their families and the community. With a commitment to personal development through free training and a supportive environment, you'll have the chance to grow your skills while ensuring that each resident can enjoy a fulfilling and independent life. If you have a passion for helping others and want to be part of a dedicated team, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Free training and development

Access to wellbeing and support tools

Retail discounts and savings

Refer a Friend bonus scheme

Employee of the Month rewards

Long Service Awards

Qualifications

• No specific experience required, but creativity and empathy are essential.
• Ability to encourage and motivate residents is key.

Responsibilities

• Deliver imaginative and varied activities to residents.
• Enhance residents' involvement with family and community.

Skills

Creativity

Empathy

Motivation

Communication

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE
As an Activities Assistant at a Barchester care home, you’ll deliver imaginative, fun, and varied activities to ensure our residents can enjoy an environment that is motivational and fulfilling. We want to make sure each individual can pursue the interests they most enjoy, and that means you’ll have a real impact on our residents’ lives. The Activities Assistant role involves helping us to deliver an entertainment and activities programme that covers a wide range of pastimes, social activities, outings, and events. Put simply, you’ll help every resident to live as independently as possible and enhance their involvement with their family, friends, and the local community.

3 days per week, 5 hrs shift, including alternate weekends.

ABOUT YOU
You don’t need any specific experience to join us as an Activities Assistant, so you could come from any background. What’s important is that you have a sense of fun, creativity, and the ability to encourage and motivate others. You’ll also need to have that little extra something – a real interest in the people we support. Enthusiastic and empathetic, you’re someone who’ll really enjoy helping our residents to live their lives to the full. Bring us all of that, and you’ll have every opportunity to develop your skills further with a range of courses designed to build your confidence in every aspect of your role.

REWARDS PACKAGE
In return for your dedication, you’ll receive a competitive rate of pay plus our sector-leading benefits and rewards package including:

• Free training and development for all roles
• Access to wellbeing and support tools
• A range of retail discounts and savings
• Unlimited referrals with our ‘Refer a Friend’ bonus scheme
• ‘Employee of the Month’ rewards and ‘Long Service Awards’

And so much more!

If you’d like to use your creativity and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you’d expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.