Activities Lead

2 weeks ago

Solihull, Solihull, United Kingdom Care UK Residential Care Services Full time

If you have experience in a similar role organising a varied programme of activities and you're looking for a rewarding role that offers great training and opportunities to develop, join Care UK as a Lifestyle Lead and make a real difference.


Being a Lifestyle Lead at Care UK:
Lifestyle Leads at Care UK have excellent interpersonal skills. They enjoy being part of a team and working with residents to ensure they lead fulfilling lives. They use their own initiative and share ideas with others to bring about improvements. They're IT literate and happy to work flexibly according to the activities that have been planned. Do you have the same sort of attributes? Then we could have the perfect role for you.

What you'll be doing:

Being a Lifestyle Lead is about creating, organising and providing a varied and appropriate programme of activities for residents.

Activities based around the needs, wishes and desires of the residents we support that will enable them to live healthier, more independent and fulfilling lives.

It's about liaising with residents, relatives, friends and colleagues to gain a full understanding of their likes, dislikes, interests, abilities and difficulties.

It's about advertising and promoting the planned activities in a way that encourages involvement of all residents, relatives and colleagues.

Put simply, it's about making a difference. A real difference.

What you'll need:

Relevant experience is essential.

You'll also need the ability to build rapport, positively influence others and communicate effectively with residents to understand their needs to compile social care plans for them.

You'll be keen to learn and improve your own performance, happy to go the extra mile to support resident's and have a 'can-do' approach to your work.

You'll be highly organised, able to prioritise your work effectively and and retaining information accurately.

Above all, you have a natural ability to help make the lives of others more fulfilling and want to work in an environment where you're challenged, but where every day is varied and rewarding.


The benefits
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  • 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
  • Free DBS
  • Thousands of online and instore 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
  • One of the UK's leading care home providers, Care UK run over 120 homes and day clubs across the UK that provide residential, nursing, dementia and endoflife care for older people. A top rated employer in best quality results, our goal is to help every employee fulfil their potential by providing firstclass training and support._
  • Fulfilling lives, fulfilling Careers._

At Laurel Dene care home in Hampton, you can expect the best quality care combined with a warm welcome from our friendly team.


Laurel Dene is a modern and stylish purpose-designed care home set in a quiet residential area of Hampton Hill in Middlesex.

We provide personalised residential and nursing care for older people, and we have specialist expertise in caring for individuals who have Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia.


Our friendly and experienced care home team supports each resident to live as independent and active a life as possible, with fulfilling experiences every day.

You'll often find us all working together on interesting projects and events, like exploring local history or putting on a show to entertain family and friends.

Our beautiful gardens are the perfect location for summer garden parties.

Everyone in our team is very approachable and we're always open to feedback and suggestions.

We have regular meetings where residents and families can share their ideas about new projects and ways to develop the care home.

And we're very fortunate to have fantastic support from the Friends of Laurel Dene fundraising committee.

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