Lifestyle Lead

RCH Care Homes; Kingsnorth; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Parkview Care Centre is looking for a Lifestyle-Activity lead to join their friendly team to enhance the lived experience of residents. The role leads a lifestyle lead, to ensure meaningful, engaging and stimulating activities are planned, organised, promoted and implemented in the home for all residents in line with relationship centered care, clinical care and dementia care principles.

The Lifestyle lead will motivate, inspire and mobilise team members to be involved and engaged in the

Qualifications

• NVQ HSC level 3 or QCF HSC award 3 ~ (not essential)
• Proven track record of organising, coordinating, motivating other
• Experience of organising and scheduling programmes of events or activities
• Experience of working and/or engaging with older people (both living with and without Dementia).
• Experience delivering high quality relationship centered care

Responsibilities

• Deliver 80% of working time on vibrant activities across all units of the home
• Plan, organise, promote and implement a meaningful, enjoyable, engaging and stimulating activities programme
• Lead on the design, development and implementation of the home newsletter that reports on the home's events and activities of interest
• Ensure records relating to activities are accurate and up to date
• Motivate, inspire and mobilise other care team members within the home

Skills

Communication

Data management

Organisation

Listening skills

Education

NVQ/HSC Level 3

QCF HSC Award 3

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Parkview Care Centre are looking for a Lifestyle-Activity lead to join their friendly team to enhance the lived experience of our residents.

The role is leading a lifestyle lead, to ensure meaningful, enjoyable, engaging and stimulating activities are planned, organised, promoted and implemented in the home for all residents in line with principles, policies, procedures and best practice guidelines for relationship centered care, clinical care and dementia care.

The Lifestyle lead will motivate, inspire and mobilise team members in the home to be involved and engaged in the provision of stimulating activities within the resident's environment.

They will spend 80% of their time delivering vibrant activities to all the residents across all the units in the home.

To plan organise, promote and implement a meaningful, enjoyable, engaging and stimulating activities programme, based on relationship centred care principals.

Motivate, inspire and mobilise other care team members within the home.

Deliver 80% of their working time on vibrant and meaningful activities across all units of the home with targeted programmes that meet the needs of the resident groups such as those who live in residential communities, those living with dementia and those who are bed bound and are not able to easily participate in the home programme.

Lead on the design, development and implementation of the home newsletter that reports on the home's events and activities of interest.

Ensure records relating to activities are accurate and up to date.

Qualifications/Education

NVQ HSC level 3 or QCF HSC award 3 ~ (not essential)

Experience

Proven track record of organising, coordinating, motivating other

Experience of organising and scheduling programmes of events or activities

Experience of working and/or engaging with older people (both living with and without Dementia).

Experience delivering high quality relationship centered care

Skills/Knowledge

Excellent communication (written and verbal) and clinical skills

Knowledge of and competence in core Microsoft office applications

Passionate and keen to develop new skills

Listening skills

Data management (for record keeping and review)

Ability to organise efficiently and prioritise workloads whilst under pressure

Personal Qualities

Reliable, flexible, adaptable, punctual

Will and able to work outside the standard work hours

Approachable and friendly

Positive in outlook and manner

Self-motivated

Able to promote a professional image for the company at all times