Activities Coordinator, Staplehurst Kent

TN United Kingdom; New Forest; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading care home as an Activities Coordinator, where you'll be part of a supportive team dedicated to enhancing residents' physical and emotional wellbeing. This role involves organizing activities, ensuring residents' preferences are met, and contributing to a joyful environment. With ongoing training and development opportunities, you'll thrive in a caring atmosphere focused on making every day count.

Benefits

Competitive pay and paid training hours

Enhanced pay rate for Bank Holidays

Flexibility of work according to personal availability

Refer a Friend payments of up to £1000

5.6 weeks annual leave

Free 24-hour access to confidential employee support helpline

Qualifications

• Caring heart with a passion for making people happy.
• Ability to organize and plan weekly activity programs.
• Respect for personal choice, dignity, and privacy.

Responsibilities

• Ensure residents are at the heart of care delivery.
• Organize and plan weekly activity programs reflecting residents' preferences.
• Create risk assessments and consent forms for activities.

Skills

Compassion

Organizational Skills

Communication

Job description

Social network you want to login/join with:

Activities Coordinator, Staplehurst Kent, Kent

col-narrow-left

Client:

Location:

Kent, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

-

EU work permit required:

Yes

col-narrow-right

Job Reference:

99cc68b133e3

Job Views:

3

Posted:

21.05.2025

Expiry Date:

05.07.2025

col-wide

Job Description:

Job Vacancy: Activities Coordinator
Location: Abbotsleigh Care Home in Staplehurst , Kent TN12 0RB
Contracted hours: 40 hours (to include – every other weekend free, as applicable), 8.30am - 5pm.

Work flexibility in accordance with your availability and the service requirements
(Hourly) rate of pay: £12.50

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 Abbotsleigh 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 excel whilst:
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
• Flexibility of work according to your personal availability
• ‘Refer a Friend' payments of up to £1000
• Staff longevity payment award scheme
• Enhanced DBS paid for by the company on completion of six months employment
• 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 Abbotsleigh Care Home at: 01580 891 314.

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 Abbotsleigh Care Home is available here https://abbotsleigh.nellsar.co...

• You will be an important member of the Abbotsleigh 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!