Activities Assistant - Care Home

Barchester Healthcare; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Barchester Healthcare is looking for an enthusiastic Activities Assistant to enhance the lives of residents in a supportive care home environment. This role involves delivering engaging activities, promoting independence, and ensuring residents enjoy fulfilling experiences. Enjoy competitive pay and an impressive benefits package while making a real difference in people's lives.

Benefits

Free training and development

Access to wellbeing and support tools

Retail discounts

Employee of the Month rewards

Long Service Awards

Qualifications

• No specific experience required, but creativity and a sense of fun are crucial.
• A passion for supporting and engaging with seniors is essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver varied activities to enhance residents' lives and encourage independence.
• Support residents' involvement with family and the local 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.

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.