Activities Co-ordinator

1 week ago


Hook, United Kingdom Forest Care Ltd Full time

**Activities Assistant**

Based at Rowan Lodge, Crown Lane, Newnham, Basingstoke, RG27 9AN - a beautiful and modern family owned and managed care home with a CQC rating of “good” in all five areas. These accolades are only achieved through the teamwork of like-minded individuals passionate about delivering person-centered care. Our Care/Nursing staff to resident ratio is higher than the national average and nearly 50% of our team have been with us for over 5 years.

Come and make a difference by joining our wonderful team at Forest Care - we’d love to have you

All we ask is that you are kind, caring, patient and have a desire to make a positive impact in people’s lives. In return, we offer a fantastic working environment and some great benefits including career paid progression.

**Top 20 Small Care Home Group 2022**

**Activities Team of the Year Finalist - National Care Awards 2021**

**9.9 Review Score on carehome.co.uk**

We are looking for a part time Activities Assistant (24 hours per week) to join the motivated and happy team working at our Rowan Lodge care home. At Forest Care, we are proud to create positive working environments in each of our care homes by encouraging employee participation and humour in the workplace.

Our Activities Team provide a full and varied activities programme of therapeutic group, individual and one-to-one activities for residents to enjoy. Activities are tailored towards the individual, supported by life story work, in line with Forest Care’s ethos of a person-centered approach to holistic care

Starting salary £11.14 per hour.

We are looking for someone to commit to around 24 hours per week to include alternate weekend working and occasional shifts up to 8pm.

As well as a competitive hourly rate, we offer the following benefits;
- 28 days Holiday (for full time workers)
- Enhanced pay for Bank Holidays
- Comprehensive induction training
- Ongoing training and development
- Auto-enrolment Pension Scheme
- NVQ Training
- Refer a Friend Scheme
- Paid breaks
- Free Uniform
- Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 covering a full range of issues. Includes perks and discounts too
- Blue Light Staff Discount Card, Employee of the Month, Appreciation weeks and many more

**Forest Care**

Forest Care is a family owned and managed company, currently with four care homes in Hampshire and Surrey. Our focus is to ensure we provide the highest standards of care to our residents, and their ongoing welfare, comfort and needs are central to how we run our homes. We want our homes to be a home in the truest sense, and we are committed to making our residents feel at home from the outset.

We are looking for a reliable, caring Activities Assistant who wants to make a difference by contributing to providing the best care possible at all times.

**Main Duties of our Activities Assistant;**
- Help to plan and organise programmes of individual and group activities
- Help to review and evaluate the activities programme so that it is kept up to date and fit for purpose.
- Work closely with residents, staff and others involved in the organising and the running of events.
- To undertake any other duties as required by line management

**Skills and Experience of our Activities Assistant;**
- Previous experience of organising events and activities within a care home setting (not essential, as training is provided)
- Good organisational skills
- A moderate level of computer literacy
- Enthusiastic and outgoing personality
- Willing to work towards Level 2 Napa Qualification in Activities

While it is no longer a requirement that people we employ are vaccinated against Covid-19, we still strongly believe that vaccination remains the best line of defence and we therefore continue to encourage all current and prospective staff to be fully vaccinated.

RLACT

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent

**Salary**: From £11.14 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Application question(s):

- Are you able to work alternate weekends and occasional evenings up to 8pm?

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence and vehicle (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: #RLACT



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