Activities Co-ordinator

Job Description

Collingwood Court Care Home have an exciting opportunity for a fulltime Lifestyle Co-Ordinator to join the team!Hourly rate is £10.07 per hour.If you have a passion for helping others to get the most out of life and some experience gained in a similar role, joining Care UK as a Lifestyle Coordinator may be the right move for you. A rewarding career that comes with great training, youll have areal opportunity to develop in our fast paced, expanding business. Being a Lifestyle Coordinator at Care UK: Lifestyle Coordinators at Care UK have the ability to understand residents needs and go the extra mile to support them to live a fulfilling life. They enjoy sharing ideas with others and strive to find ways to improve residents quality of life. With aformidable can-do approach to their work, lots of initiative and team player skills, theyre keen to continuously learn and improve too. Do you have the same sort of attributes What youll be doing: Being a Lifestyle Coordinator is about creating, organising and communicating a varied programme of activities for residents. Its also about empowering each resident individually, assisting them with their ability to participate and enabling them to achievetheir goals. Youll do this by spending quality time with residents and their families in order to gain a full understanding of their interests and aspirations. Meaningful activity is the result and the responsibility of all colleagues input, so youll workclosely with the team to involve everyone in the home and make this successful. Put simply, its about making a difference. A real difference. What youll need: Some relevant experience is essential, as is the ability to compile social care plans for residents and maintain confidentiality. Well also be looking for excellent interpersonal skills and a flair for prioritising a busy workload. Someone whos able toretain information and carry out instructions accurately, keeping accurate written records is important too. Above all, you have a natural ability to help make the lives of others more enjoyable and want to work in an environment where the work can be challenging,but also fun, fullfilling and rewarding. The benefits:

• Competitive rates of pay - we continuously review pay in your local market
• Opportunities to progress through our personalised career paths into more senior and management roles whilst growing your earnings
• Earn whilst you learn and take on a variety of apprenticeships applicable to your role enabling you to increase your pay once achieved
• Competitive refer a friend scheme of up to £1000 depending on role
• Quality and free training to help develop and enhance your skills
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free DBS
• Thousands of online and in-store discounts across big known retailers enabling our colleagues to make big savings on every day shopping such as holidays, supermarkets and travel.
• Employee Assistance Programme - Immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service which operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to include support such as financial and family concerns