Activities Coordinator

Wellburn Care Homes; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A family-run care home business in York and North Yorkshire is seeking a Lifestyle Coordinator to develop engaging activities for residents. Responsibilities include planning trips and events, managing social media, and ensuring a vibrant activity schedule. Ideal candidates are organised, creative, and proactive. Excellent pay, paid NVQ qualifications, and additional benefits offered.

Benefits

Excellent rates of pay

Paid NVQ qualification

Ongoing wellbeing initiatives

Shooting Star award

£500 refer a friend scheme

Staff Lottery

Birthday wishes prize draw

Qualifications

• Ability to work as part of a team and fit into a family culture.
• Willingness to develop and deliver person-centred activities for residents.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver a rich, person-centred activity programme for residents.
• Organise trips, events in the home and one-to-one activities.
• Manage and populate the home’s Facebook page with engaging content.
• Take autonomy and make the role your own within the home environment.

Skills

Organised

Creative

Proactive mindset

Teamwork

Budget management

Social media planning

Job description

About the role

Here at Wellburn, our lovely family run business operates a little differently to a lot of other businesses. We don’t hire robots. We hire people. Everyone is different, and we love that. Our recruitment policy is as much about personality as it is about qualifications. We need you to fit in and be part of the team. Part of the family.

The wellbeing of our residents is vital now more than ever. Providing a rich activity programme can benefit our residents in a countless number of ways, from improving their health to increasing happiness, and allowing them to achieve their goals.

We are looking for organised, creative, think outside of the box people to join our team of Lifestyle Co-ordinators ensuring our residents have a rich and engaging person-centred activity programme. Whether it’s taking our residents out on trips, planning events in the home or one to one activities, the possibilities are endless.

Along with planning activities, our lifestyle co-ordinators are responsible for managing and populating their homes Facebook page with engaging content, taking care of their own budgets and ensuring paperwork is kept up to date. We encourage our co-ordinators to take full autonomy and make the role their own.

Sounding good? We want to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver a rich, person-centred activity programme for residents.
• Organise trips, events in the home and one-to-one activities.
• Manage and populate the home’s Facebook page with engaging content.
• Manage budgets and ensure paperwork is kept up to date.
• Take autonomy and make the role your own within the home environment.

Requirements / Qualifications

• Organised, creative and proactive mindset.
• Ability to work as part of a team and fit into a family culture.
• Ability to manage budgets and contribute to social media/content planning.
• Willingness to develop and deliver person-centred activities for residents.

Benefits

• Excellent rates of pay
• Paid NVQ qualification
• Ongoing wellbeing and mental health initiatives
• Shooting Star award – to recognise staff that go above and beyond
• £500 refer a friend scheme
• Staff Lottery
• Birthday wishes – prize draw each month to have your birthday off.

subject to terms

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