Activities Coordinator

Nellsar Limited; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 22,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Enhanced pay for Bank Holidays

Refer a Friend up to £1000

Enhanced DBS paid by the company

Comprehensive induction programme

Funding of qualifications via Apprent.

24-hour confidential support helpline

Nellsar work uniforms

Job summary

Nellsar Limited is recruiting an Activities Coordinator at Loose Valley Care Home in Maidstone. The role involves developing and delivering engaging activity programmes that reflect residents’ choices, while supporting their physical and mental wellbeing on a 24-hour rota system.

We provide on-going training and development with opportunities for progression within the company, including apprenticeships. Competitive pay and a range of benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Planning weekly activity programmes within allocated budget reflecting residents' preferences.
• Producing newsletters to inform residents and relatives/friends about activities.
• Assisting residents to access the internet and other communication methods (letter writing, Skype, FaceTime).

Responsibilities

• Ensuring residents are at the heart of care delivery and their wishes are considered to enhance wellbeing.
• Organising and planning weekly activity programmes and updating activity boards around the home.
• Creating risk assessments for activities and consent forms for families/residents.
• Producing newsletters and liaising with Marketing to prepare activity information for newsletters.
• Supporting residents to access the internet and other communication methods.

Job description

Job Vacancy: Activities Coordinator

Location: Loose Valley Care Home, 15 Linton Road, Maidstone, Kent ME15 0AG

Contracted hours : 24 hours (6 hour shift pattern on a rota system)

(Hourly) rate of pay : Starting from £13.40

As Activities Coordinator , you will enjoy being a part of an exceptionally supportive team, welcoming you into providing outstanding physical, emotional, and social assistance to the people living at Loose Valley Care Home.

The perfect role for you

Being a caring heart, with a passion for making people happy, you will thrive on bringing a smile on our residents’ face, whilst supporting their physical and mental wellbeing. Being a kind, compassionate person who respects people’s personal choice, dignity, and privacy, we would be honoured to welcome you in our team.

Nellsar is committed to developing and training our staff in order to ensure high quality care is provided to our residents and the successful candidate will receive on-going training and development with opportunities for progression within the Company, including apprenticeships to new and existing staff.

You will have the opportunity to excelwhilst:

The Activities Coordinator responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• - Ensuring that residents are at the heart of care delivery and their wishes and preferences are taken into consideration to enhance their wellbeing.
• - Organising and planning weekly activity programmes (within allocated budget) reflecting residents’ preferences, & a written rota to be produced. Update activities boards around the home.
• - Creating risk assessments for activities and consent forms for families / residents.
• - Producing newsletters to inform residents and their relatives/friends about activities / liaise with the Marketing team in typing up activities and producing information for Newsletters.
• - Supporting residents to access the internet and other communication methods such as letter writing, Skype and FaceTime.

To maintain skills at a current level and to undertake such training and development as required, from time-to-time, to maintain and progress knowledge.

For more information on the role and to see the job description and person specification, please visit – https://recruitment.nellsar.com/activities-coordinator-job-description/

What we offer in return to your dedication:

• - Competitive pay and paid training hours
• - Enhanced pay rate for Bank Holidays
• - ‘Refer a Friend’ payments of up to £1000
• - Enhanced DBS paid for by the company
• - Comprehensive induction programme
• - Access to funded qualifications via the apprenticeship programme
• - Free 24-hour access to confidential employee support helpline
• - Nellsar work uniforms

If you would like to obtain more details about this exciting role, please contact Loose Valley Care Home at: 01622 745 959..

Why Choose Us?

Nellsar has been a family-run Company since 1988 and we provide exceptional care for residents across our group of 13 Care Homes in Kent, Surrey, and Essex. We consistently strive to achieve the highest standards of professional and person-centred care, and we achieve this by promoting the wellbeing and development of our team members. Our values focus on the individual, creating an inclusive environment with both residents and our teams at the heart of what we do every day.

It’s our mission at Nellsar to ensure that people live life to the full

• We are passionate about making every day count and bringing colour and laughter to the people living in our home, their visitors and the team supporting them.
• More information about Loose Valley Care Home is available here https://loose-valley.nellsar.c...
• You will be an important member of the Loose Valley family, who will support you to reach your goals and feel accomplished by enhancing other people’s quality of life.

Nellsar is an Equal Opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion, and we are committed to creating a work environment that embraces and celebrates individual differences.

Thank you for considering the possibility of joining the Nellsar family, we are looking forward to welcoming you!