Activities Assistant - Care Home

Integrated Care System; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Un foyer de soins recherche un Assistant d'Activités pour offrir des programmes motivants et enrichissants pour les résidents. Avec un sens de la créativité et une passion pour aider, vous jouerez un rôle clé dans l'amélioration de la qualité de vie des résidents. Aucun diplôme spécifique requis, mais de nombreuses opportunités de développement personnel seront disponibles.

Benefits

Formation et développement gratuits pour tous les rôles

Accès à des outils de bien-être et de soutien

Une gamme de réductions et d'économies

Programme de référence 'Référez un ami'

Récompenses 'Employé du mois'

Prix de Longue Service

Qualifications

• Pas de qualifications spécifiques requises, mais un sens de la créativité et de l'encouragement important.
• Intérêt réel pour les personnes soutenues est nécessaire.
• Doit être enthousiaste et empathique.

Responsibilities

• Aider à livrer un programme d'activités et d'événements variés.
• Encourager l'implication des résidents avec leur famille et la communauté.
• Assurer que chaque individu puise le maximum d'intérêt dans ses activités.

Skills

Créativité

Empathie

Enthousiasme

Capacité à motiver

Job description

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'll help every resident to live as independently as possible and enhance their involvement with their family, friends and the local community.

Main duties of the job

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. You don't need any specific experience to join us, but you should have a sense of fun, creativity, and the ability to encourage and motivate others. You'll also need to have a real interest in the people we support.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of high-quality care and support services in the UK. They operate over 200 care homes and independent living services across England, Scotland and Wales, providing residential, nursing, dementia and rehabilitative care to thousands of individuals.

Job responsibilities

ABOUT THE ROLEAs 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 YOUYou 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 PACKAGEIn 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.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications are required, but you should have a sense of fun, creativity, and the ability to encourage and motivate others.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.