Activities Coordinator

Exemplar Health Care; Sunderland; On-site; GBP 14,000 - 21,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Access to wages before payday

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Retail and lifestyle discounts

Supervision and career prospects

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care’s Hylton Grange care home in Sunderland is hiring an Activities Coordinator for 30 hours per week with weekend availability. You will plan and lead meaningful activities to empower residents, nurture hobbies and social connections, and promote dignity and independence through person-centred approaches.

As part of a supportive team, you’ll organise individual plans, run group events, and help residents engage with their local community.

Qualifications

• Values: fun, integrity, responsiveness, success, teamwork.
• Caring and kind; able to see the funny side of life.
• Creative thinker always looking for new activities and ideas.
• Enthusiastic, encouraging and inclusive; born organiser.
• Great at listening and communicating; understands individual needs.
• Induction and training programmes provided if you haven’t worked in care before.

Responsibilities

• Organising individual activity plans based on residents' goals and interests.
• Fostering community spirit through group activities.
• Supporting residents to maintain and take up hobbies, interests and educational opportunities.
• Assisting residents to become more involved in their local community.
• Celebrating national awareness days and residents' achievements; promoting dignity and independence.

Skills

Caring

Creative thinker

Organiser

Great listener

Team player

Communication

Job description

Activities Coordinator

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Position: Activities Coordinator

Care home: Hylton Grange

Location: 1 Poole Road, Sunderland, SR4 0HG

Contract type: 30hrs per week. Weekend availability required

Rate: £12.71 per hour

Are you an enthusiastic people person who loves to bring the fun? As an Activities Coordinator, you’ll organise and lead meaningful and entertaining activities for the people we support. You’ll play a key role in empowering them to live fulfilled and happy lives.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference every day. Join us as our new Activities Coordinator/Life Skills Coordinator at Hylton Grange care home in Sunderland.

About Exemplar Health Care

Hylton Grange is part of Exemplar Health Care, a leading provider of nursing care for adults living with complex and high acuity needs.

Hylton Grange supports 30 adults living with complex mental health needs and neuro-disabilities including Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease across three units. .

As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.

About the role

Our Activities Coordinators organise creative and fun activities for the people we support.

No two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• organising individual activity plans based on people’s unique goals and interests
• fostering community spirit through group activities
• supporting people to maintain their current, and take up new, hobbies, interests and educational opportunities
• assisting people to become more involved in their local community
• celebrating national awareness days, holidays and individual/collective achievements
• promoting choice, dignity and independence.

As part of our mission to make every day better, our high staffing levels give you the time to deliver truly person-centred activities, with a supportive team around you.

About you

Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

You’re also:

• caring, kind and able to see the funny side of life
• a creative thinker, always on the lookout for new activities and ideas
• enthusiastic, encouraging and inclusive
• a born organiser with a positive, can-do approach
• great at listening and communicating
• understanding of individual needs.

You’ll put people at the heart of everything you do.

If you haven’t worked in the care sector before, we’ll help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy and ongoing training programmes. We value relevant experience and qualifications, but they aren’t essential for this role.

What we offer

We offer great rewards and perks including:

• regular supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects
• access to wages before payday
• retail and lifestyle discounts
• free DBS check
• 24/7 counselling and support
• Blue Light Card eligibility.