Lifestyles & Activities Assistant (Part Time)

**Join Our Team as an Activities & Lifestyles Assistant at Chartwell House by Boutique Care Homes**

**About Boutique Care Homes**

Boutique Care Homes is a family-run care provider, we pride ourselves on providing compassionate care, with true family values, ensuring your loved one lives a fulfilled life, enjoying fresh, nutritious home-cooked food and a choice of activities and entertainment in their later life. Our team is dynamic and energetic, evolving with the times, ensuring safety and well-being come first, providing you peace of mind that your loved one is well cared for.

**Why Boutique Care Homes?**
- Competitive salary
- Company pension
- Free team lunches
- Free on-site parking
- Free employee expert counselling & support from qualified advisors, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Refer a friend incentive scheme
- Blue Light Card discounts
- BCH quarterly recognition awards
- Long service awards

Activities & Lifestyle Assistant’s play a vital role in ensuring that our residents lead fulfilling and meaningful lives in a caring and supportive environment. Your responsibilities will revolve around planning, organising, and facilitating a diverse range of activities and programs both inside and outside of the home that cater to the physical, emotional and social needs of our residents. You will contribute to creating a vibrant and fulfilling lifestyle within our care community.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Conduct group and one to one activities with and for the residents based on appropriate assessment using all relevant sources of information.
- Training and guiding the care team in constructive activities in order to ensure that there is an awareness of involving residents in activities at all times as part of the overall care provision at the home.
- Having a ‘one team approach’ to activities and lifestyle whereby all team members from all departments get involved in delivering activities is what sets Boutique Care Homes apart from other providers. This is where we all make a difference, creating a fun, vibrant environment for residents and team alike making everybody’s role from a carer to kitchen assistant within the home much more varied and enjoyable.
- Coordination and Collaboration: In our care home, different departments work harmoniously together and communication is of vital importance. All departments must work together seamlessly to provide comprehensive care to residents. Effective internal communication fosters coordination and collaboration among these departments, ensuring that everyone is on the same page and working towards common goals.
- Activity Planning and Execution: The Activities and Lifestyle department play a crucial role in enhancing residents' quality of life through engaging and meaningful activities. Internal communication helps the activities team coordinate with other departments to ensure that activities are scheduled without conflicting with residents' medical appointments or other essential services.
- Continuous Improvement: Regular communication between the Activities and Lifestyle department allows for ongoing reflection of activities and events and identification of areas that require improvement. This feedback loop helps in making necessary adjustments to enhance the overall efficiency and effectiveness of delivering the highest quality in activities that are enjoyed and most beneficial to our residents.
- Establishing close contact with a range of outside bodies who may be in a position to assist the home. This could include the Alzheimer’s Society, the WI, Help the Aged, Age Concern, local churches and other charitable and similar organisations.
- Assisting with arrangements for outside bodies and individuals to come into the home as often as possible in order to provide entertainment, stimulation and therapeutic input for all residents as appropriate.
- Getting to know every resident and their interests and backgrounds in order to deliver person centered activities.
- Liaising with care team regarding celebration of residents’ birthdays and anniversaries.
- Liaising with the care team on cultural and religious beliefs/celebrations.
- Maintaining and distributing the home’s library of books to ensure that all residents have the opportunity to access the materials.
- Communicating with relatives and friends of residents as required

**Skills, Qualifications & Experience**
- Good people & relationship building skills.
- Positive work ethics.
- Discretion and confidentiality.
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload.
- Ability to work using own initiative.
- Excellent verbal and written skills.
- Ability to motivate others to join in with meaningful activities

**Job Type**: Part-time

**Salary**: From £12.00 per hour

Expected hours: 18 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Referral programme

Work Location: In person