Activity Coordinator

Reporting to the Home Manager / Activities 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 Lifestyle 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.
**Activities Coordination**
- Plan, organise, promote and implement a meaningful, enjoyable, engaging and stimulating activities programme, based on relationship-centered care principles, throughout the home that involves and includes all residents relative to them as individuals
- 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
- Champion relationship-centered care with all team members in the home to ensure residents are empowered to make, or continue to make, lifestyle choices relevant and appropriate to them
- Ensure weekly and monthly calendars are created to ensure activities are planned daily and then distributed throughout the home.
- Ensure records relating to activities are accurate and up to date
- Plan regular reviews with each resident, in partnership with the care team members, where appropriate, to further enhance the lived experience of each resident in the home
- Conduct regular reviews of all activities programmes to measure and assess effectiveness, revising and refreshing activities for all residents as a result
- Ensure events, activities and achievements are communicated to the Sales and Marketing team and, where possible, local media
- Build strong and positive external links within the local community for the Home
- Support volunteering opportunities within the home
- Ensure all regulatory and statutory requirements are met and company policies and procedures are adhered to
- Role model relationship centered care with all team members to empower residents with their lifestyle choices.
- Responsible for ensuring there is always sufficient equipment and resources available for the team to meaningfully engage and occupy residents.
- 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.
- To respond in a timely way to residents who are distressed (calling out, calling for help, knocking or making noises that suggest the need for support) or seek assistance if you feel unable to respond appropriately.
**Health and Safety**
- Ensure the Home Manager/ Activities Manager is informed of any incidents, issues or concerns.
- Work with the Home’s team members to ensure risk assessments have been carried out on all outings and all documentation is complete and recorded.
- Ensure risk assessments related to activities and volunteering are completed within the home and safe working practices are being followed at all times.
- Ensure all H&S requirements are met and company policies and procedures relating to H&SD are adhered to.
Leadership and Management
- Manage the induction and training of the Activities team ensuring training targets are met and team members are competent in their roles
- Be a role model to the whole team in relation to engagement of residents in all areas of care and support the team to provide the right level of occupation and activities to the residents
- Manage rotas and ensure correct team member levels and skill mix within the home on a continual basis of the activity team
- Lead, support, empower and inspire direct reports to deliver outcomes for the home
- Overall responsibility for the supervision, appraisal and performance management of the activity team, supporting them to achieve their potential
- Lead the team to ensure they are all aligned with the SilverCrest vision
- Lead regular communication with residents, relatives and external stakeholders.
- Manage activities budgets in liaison with the General or Home Manager
- Collaborate with the Regional Manager to develop an activities business plan on an annual and quarterly basis to present to Regional Activities Manager and/ or Home Manager
- Ensure all reporting is completed accurately and on time
- Ensure that all regulatory and statutory requirements are met and company policies and procedures are adhered to
- Ensure any requirements from internal and external audits are actioned within the timescales required
- Ensure there is effective c