Activities Co-ordinator

**Home Name: Shipley Manor**

**Location: Shipley BD17 7FF**

**Contract Type: Permanent, Days. been filled.**

**About the company**:
We’re looking for an experienced Activities Coordinator to join our St Marys Team at Shipley. Your passion for the highest quality care and the kindness to want to make a difference to the lives of individuals is essential to your success in this role.

**JOB PURPOSE**:To plan and implement activities appropriate to Residents’ needs and

requests. To assist Home Manager to organize fundraising events.

**MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES**

Activities:

- Help Residents to socialize within the Home, and provide a variety of activities that cater for all tastes.
- Plan and initiate monthly rolling / individual programmes, and encourage Residents to maintain pre-existing hobbies.
- Encourage Staff Members, Relatives and Friends to participate in the Home's activities.
- Accompany Residents, where possible, to off-site activities, which may occasionally take place outside normal working hours.
- Help to create an atmosphere that suits individual Residents within the Home.
- Assist with fund raising, and budgeting, for entertainments, materials and outings.
- Maintain full and accurate records of daily activities using appropriate documentation, and assist the Named Carer to review and update Resident Care Files.

Communication:

- Discuss the aims and objectives of recreation therapy with other Staff Members.
- Report any changes in Residents' physical or emotional condition to the Home Manager or Person in Charge.
- Provide comfort and company, on a one-to-one basis, for Residents who are unable to undertake any form of activity.
- Arrange / participate in Staff and Resident meetings, as and when required.

Marketing:

- Actively market the Home and promote a positive personal / professional profile within the local community, ensuring the good reputation of the Home at all times.

Training & Development:

- Ensure all Staff Members know how to use appropriate equipment.
- Attend mandatory training days/courses, on or off site, as and when required.
- Maintain professional knowledge and competence.

Health & Safety:

- Report immediately to the Home Manager, or Person in Charge, any illness of an infectious nature or accident incurred by a Resident, colleague, self or another.
- Understand and ensure the implementation of the Home’s Health and Safety policy, and Emergency and Fire procedures.
- Report to the Home Manager, or the Handyperson, any faulty appliances, damaged furniture, equipment or any potential hazard.
- Promote safe working practice in the Home.

General:

- Ensure that all information of confidential nature gained in the course of duty is not divulged to third parties.
- Notify the Home Manager, or the Person in Charge, as soon as possible of your inability to work, and also on your return to work from all periods of absence.
- Ensure the security of the Home is maintained at all times.
- Adhere to all Company policies and procedures within the defined timescales.
- Ensure all equipment is clean and well maintained.
- Carry out any other tasks that may be reasonably assigned to you.

**St Marys Care Offer**:

- Competitive Pay Rates
- Paid DBS
- Professional Training & Ongoing career progression
- Company Pension
- Refer A Friend Scheme
- Free Uniform
- Onsite Parking
- Staff Recognition Program
- Free Blue Light Card

Imminent start available

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

Pay: £12.77 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Day shift

Work Location: In person