Activities Assistant - Care Home

Barchester Healthcare; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health care provider in Milton Keynes is looking for an Activities Assistant. In this role, you’ll deliver fun and varied activities, enhancing residents' quality of life and promoting their independence. You don’t need previous experience, but a creative and empathetic spirit is essential. Join us to help improve the lives of our residents while enjoying various sector-leading benefits and development opportunities.

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

Qualifications

• A sense of fun and creativity is essential.
• Real interest in the people supported is required.
• Ability to encourage and motivate others.

Responsibilities

• Deliver imaginative and varied activities for residents.
• Enhance residents' involvement with their families and local community.
• Help residents live as independently as possible.

Skills

Creativity

Enthusiasm

Empathy

Ability to motivate others

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. You want each individual to pursue the interests 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.