Activities Coordinator - Care Home

NHS; South Kesteven; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free training and development

Wellbeing tools

Retail discounts

Refer a Friend bonus

Employee of the Month rewards

Long Service Awards

Job summary

Barchester Healthcare is seeking an Activities Coordinator to create a stimulating environment and deliver exceptional care for residents. You’ll design fun, motivating activities tailored to individual interests and abilities, and work with families to build personalised programmes that promote wellbeing and social engagement.

This role offers comprehensive training, supportive colleagues and a rewarding career with competitive benefits.

Qualifications

• Warmth, empathy and organizational skills are important.

Responsibilities

• Create a stimulating environment for residents and develop fun, motivational activities tailored to interests and abilities.
• Engage with residents and their families to develop personalised activity programmes that enhance wellbeing and social engagement.
• Collaborate with the care team to deliver activity plans in the home and community settings.

Skills

Warmth & empathy

Job description

Main duties of the job

As an Activities Coordinator at Barchester care home, you will be responsible for creating a stimulating environment to provide exceptional care and support to residents. Your role embraces an ethos of celebrating life by devising fun, motivational activities tailored to residents' interests and abilities. You'll engage with residents and their families to develop personalised activity programmes that enhance well‑being, independence, and social engagement.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a prominent provider of care homes, committed to delivering quality care services for residents. Their mission is grounded in celebrating life and ensuring support in various aspects of resident care. Barchester fosters an environment that emphasizes recognising individual resident needs, independence, and social engagement. They are noted for their rewarding career opportunities and competitive compensation packages, including comprehensive training programmes for employees.

Job responsibilities

As an Activities Coordinator at a Barchester care home, you'll help to create a stimulating environment that enables us to deliver exceptional all‑round care and support for our residents. Our ethos is all about celebrating life, so you'll help to devise imaginative, fun and motivational activities that suit every interest and ability. An extremely rewarding role, part of your time as an Activities Coordinator will be spent getting to know our residents and their families before you create tailored activities programmes focused on maximising everyone's wellbeing, independence and social engagement.

You'll need to be warm, empathetic and personable. Your organisational skills and driven mind‑set mean you always get things done and make things happen. Meanwhile, your infectious enthusiasm and creative approach will inspire our residents and staff to get involved in activities both within the home and in the local community. Any similar experience would be ideal, but it isn't essential especially because we'll make sure you have the training you need to develop your skills and progress your career with us.

In return for your dedication, you'll receive a competitive rate of pay plus a 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. Workplace pension scheme, with employer contributions from 3%. And so much more!

If you'd like to use your planning 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.

Person Specification

• No specific qualifications are required as training is provided, but being warm, empathetic and having organisational skills are important.

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.