Activities Assistant - Care Home

Barchester Healthcare; Bristol; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Free training and development

Wellbeing and support tools

Retail discounts

Refer a Friend bonus

Employee of the Month rewards

Workplace Pension scheme

Job summary

Barchester Healthcare in Bristol is seeking an Activities Assistant. In this role, you will deliver varied activities that motivate and fulfill residents, ensuring they enjoy a fulfilling environment.

You’ll have the chance to support our residents in living their lives to the fullest, with flexible working hours and a range of benefits including training, retail discounts, and a pension scheme.

Qualifications

• A real interest in supporting residents is essential.
• Creativity and the ability to motivate others are important.
• No prior care home experience is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Deliver imaginative activities to enhance residents' lives.
• Plan and facilitate a variety of social activities and outings.
• Encourage resident participation in community activities.

Skills

Creativity

Motivation

Empathy

Communication

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

As an Activities Assistant atKingswood Court 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.

This is a part time role, 2 days per week (roughly9-5 although start and finish is flexible depending on needs of the home)and may include working every other weekend on rotation with then 2 weekday shiftsduring the next week.

ABOUT YOU

You don’t need previous care home experience to join us as an Activities Assistant, you could come from any background.What’simportant 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’
• Workplace Pension scheme, with Employer contributions from 3%

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.