Description
Reporting to the Home Manager the Activities Coordinator is responsible for ensuring that meaningful, enjoyable, engaging and stimulating activities are planned, organised, promoted and implemented in the Home for all residents in line with the principles, policies, procedures and best practice guidelines for relationship centered care, clinical care and dementia care.
The Coordinator will motivate, inspire and mobilise team members in the Home to be involved and engaged in the provision of stimulating activities within the residents’ environment. They will provide information to report on the effectiveness of activities and regularly review, revise and refresh the activities programmes for all residents accordingly.
This role does require you to work on weekends and is 37.5 hours a week
Key Responsibilities
Join us... if you like hard-work, well-organised, love planning, communicating, listening, delivering results as well as increasing your step count, 'singing (badly), playing games, have meaningful time with residents, having fun while at work and generally making a difference in our residents' lives then this role is for you!
Working hours: 37.5 hours a week, working Monday - Sundays. (To be discussed at interview)
About the role:
The Activities Coordinator is responsible for ensuring that meaningful, enjoyable, engaging and stimulating activities are planned, organised, promoted and implemented in the Home for all residents.
You will motivate, inspire and lead the team to be involved and engaged in the provision of stimulating activities within the residents’ environment. They will provide information to report on the effectiveness of activities and regularly review, revise and refresh the activities programmes for all residents accordingly.
Responsibilities:
- Plan, organise, promote and implement a range of engaging activities based on relationship-centered care principles, throughout the home that involves and includes all residents relative to them as individuals and empower them to make positive lifestyle choices.
- Motivate, inspire and mobilise other activities and care team members in the provision of meaningful, enjoyable, engaging and stimulating activities within the home to support relationship-centered care for residents
- Lead by example with a hands on approach to all activities
- Create a meaningful a weekly activities planner, maintain the expenditure sheet and rotas for the team
- Ensure records relating to activities are accurate and up to date
- Plan regular activity reviews with each resident and relevant team members and families.
- Conduct regular reviews of all activities programmes to measure and assess effectiveness, revising and refreshing activities for all residents as a result
- Build strong and positive external links within the local community for the Home
- Plan and coordinate trips out for residents and conducting all risk assessments to ensure requirements are met
- To actively engage with residents in conversation and meaningful occupation related to their lifestyle choices at a level and pace that values the individual and respects their dignity and communication differences.
- Manage the recruitment, induction and training of the Activities team and volunteers; ensuring training targets are met and team members are competent in their roles
- Overall responsibility for the supervision, appraisal and performance management of the activity team, supporting them to achieve their potential
- Ensure all risk assessments are completed for relevant activities
Requirements
- Reliable and punctual
- Flexible and adaptable
- Will and able to work, from time to time, outside standard work hours (e.g. at weekends, evenings)
- Approachable and friendly
- Hands on approach to all areas of the job
- Confident and assertive
- Diplomatic and tactful
- Enthusiastic and keen to learn / develop
- Patient and understanding
- Positive in outlook and manner
- Self-motivated
- Able to promote a professional image for the company at all times
- Able to travel to other homes where needed for training / support
Experience
- Proven track record organising, coordinating, supporting and motivating others
- 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 (desirable)
Skills/Knowledge/Qualifications
- Strong management and organisation skills
- Influencing, negotiating and persuading skills
- Listening skills
- Excellent written, non-verbal and verbal communication skills
- Dementia knowledge (essential for roles within Homes specialising in dementia care)
- Knowledge of and competence in core Microsoft Office applications (e.g. Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint) and Windows based operating environments
- Data management (for record keeping and review)
- A minimum of two GCSE’s, one of which must be English Language, at Grade C or above (or equivalent)
- NVQ HSC Level 3 or QCF HSC Award 3 (or higher) in Health and Social Care (or equivalent) (desirable)
- Having achieved or expected to complete the Level 2 award in supporting activities provisions (desirable)
