Activities Coordinator

**Activities Coordinator**
We are One Housing, and we create places for people to call home and support them to live well. With a breadth of services and expertise to help people whatever their housing, care, or support needs

Our Care team is friendly, and we love what we do. We are passionate about the high-quality support we provide. We offer our colleagues a friendly, collaborative workplace and the chance to build a rewarding career with a not-for-profit organisation that is proud to make a genuine difference to peoples’ lives, each day.

**Join our Care team as an Activities Coordinator**

Baycroft, Orpington, is a beautifully designed 60-bed care home with a relaxed and calm atmosphere. Focusing on their resident’s happiness, the staff are extremely caring and skilled to ensure the best possible care is provided.

We’re an organisation with strong values. We keep our promises; we do a great job; we value diversity; we work together; and we look for ways to improve. These are what make us such a great team, working together as one to achieve our vision.

**The Role**
We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position Activities Coordinator. Your responsibilities will include:

- Involvement with all residents to plan/create activities to suit everyone’s needs.
- Providing entertainment ideas and action these.
- Being able to drive a minibus or train to drive the minibus / company car also available.
- Organising family days / coffee mornings / fetes.
- Developing links with play groups / local schools / community groups.

**What you need to succeed**
- Have previous experience developing engaging and creative activity plans
- Ideally have previous experience working in an adult care setting
- Have a NVQ in Health and Social Care (Desirable)
- **Salary: £11.19 p/h** - 20 Hours Per Week - Flexible Start & Finish Times - Rolling Rota - Includes Alternative Weekends
- **Your holidays are important to us.** Take up to 29 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays.
- **Lean travel.** Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues.
- **Get paid to do good.** We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our communities.
- **Look after your loved ones.** Our healthcare cash back plan allows you to claim back cash for you and your family’s healthcare.
- **Well done** With our colleague recognition programme, you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob
- **Learning never stops.** One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.
- **We’re here for you.** Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/7.
- **Stay book smart.** Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.
- **Experience new things.** We offer you a career break after 3 years’ continuous service.

**About us**
As an organisation with a strong social purpose, One Housing works in some of the most diverse communities in the UK and our workforce reflects that. As of December 2021, One Housing merged with the Riverside Group, creating one of the country's largest housing associations, with more than 75,000 homes. This follows a shared recognition that we are better and stronger together; and that when we combine, we will be able to do more for our customers and the communities we serve.

At One Housing, our people are our strength which is why we work very hard to enable all employees to bring their authentic self to work. This commitment is reflected in our diversity groups support network, our wellbeing initiatives and our employee benefits.

Job Reference: OHG02229