Activities Coordinator, Deal Kent

Nellsar Careers; Deal; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 21,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Enhanced DBS paid for by the company

On-going training hours

Progression opportunities

5.6 weeks annual leave

Refer a Friend payments

Workplace pension

Uniforms provided

Paid Bank Holidays

Flexible schedule

Induction programme

Staff support helpline

Job summary

Nellsar is a family-run Company since 1988 and operates 13 care homes across Kent, Surrey, and Essex. St Winifreds Care Home in Deal is seeking an Activities Coordinator to provide engaging physical, emotional, and social activities for residents with support from a caring team.

This role offers on-going training and development, a competitive hourly rate from £13.01, and inclusive benefits including DBS paid for by the company and opportunities for progression within the group.

Responsibilities

• 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 and producing a written rota; updating activity boards around the home.
• Creating risk assessments for activities and consent forms for families/residents.
• Producing newsletters to inform residents and relatives about activities; liaising with Marketing to prepare information for Newsletters.
• Supporting residents to access the internet and other communication methods such as letter writing, Skype and FaceTime.

Job description

Job Vacancy: Activities Coordinator

Location: St Winifreds Care Home in Deal, Kent

Contracted hours: 30 hours (to include – every other weekend free, as applicable),

(Hourly) rate of pay: From £13.01

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 St Winifreds 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.

What we offer in return to your dedication:

• Competitive pay and paid training hours
• Enhanced pay rate for Bank Holidays
• Flexibility of work according to your personal availability
• Workplace pension
• ‘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
• 5.6 weeks annual leave
• Working in a supportive team
• The opportunity to help your team develop
• 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 St Winifreds Care Home at: 01304 375 758.

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 St Winifreds Care Home is available here https://st-winifreds.nellsar.c...
• You will be an important member of the St Winifreds 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!