Activities Coordinator

**Job Brief**:
**As an Activities Coordinator at Discovery Care, you will work closely with the home manager / deputy manager to organise both social and person-centred activities to meet the needs and requests of our residents, ensuring they receive the exceptional care and support that they so deserve.**

**Responsibilities**:

- **You will be responsible for liaising with Care Staff regarding potential activities that will be beneficial to our residents, and arranging appropriate activities, such as light exercise, arts & crafts, puzzles, knitting, sing-a-longs, days out, seasonal events and lots more.**
- **We would also expect you to organise special cultural activities, catering to religious calendars for example: Hanukkah, Diwali, Christmas, Easter, Et Al**
- **Keeping in mind the likes and dislikes of the residents, ensuring they enjoy the activities offered to them.**
- **You will organise all social activities / diversional therapy within the**

**Home, considering residents' particular likes and dislikes as appropriate.**
- **You will incorporate New Residents into the activities programmes within**

**the Home.**
- **You will liaise with Care Staff regarding special individual**

**requirements, such as the celebration of birthdays and anniversaries.**
- **You will organise, and be involved in, activities that involve community**

**visits outside the Home. To co-ordinate the availability of**

**transport for residents for such visits.**
- **You will plan activities to a set timetable, this takes in to**

**consideration participation of every resident within the Home and to**

**ensure that these are communicated to residents and staff alike.**
- **You will plan daily activities that includes at least one main group**

**activity and one to one sessions.**
- **You will ensure the provision of specialist media for residents with**

**special needs (news tapes, book tapes, large-letter books and**

**Braille, as required)**
- **You will communicate and liaise with relatives and friends of residents**

**as needed.**
- **You will assist care staff during mealtimes by assisting resident to eat**

**in order to promote protected mealtimes**
- **You will liaise with Care Staff to ensure that activities are documented**

**on appropriate Care Plans and in Care Plan records.**
- **You will make records of all activities conducted including, which**

**residents have participated.**

**About You**:
**To be successful in this role you’ll need to have an empathetic and warm personality, as well as showing genuine enthusiasm to help inspire our residents to get involved.**

The care home is based in Margate so you would be expected to be able to travel there and back.

**Wage**:
**Competitive