Activities Co-ordinator

**Role : Activities Co-ordinator**

**Location: Moreton Centre**

**Pay rate: £12.64 per hour**

**Contracted Hours: 37.5 hours per week**

**Shift pattern : Alternate weekend working required**

**About the Role**:
We are currently looking for an **experienced Activities Co-ordinator** to join our existing team of fantastic mental health experts on a permanent basis at St Matthews Unit, Northampton.

**About us**:
Established in 1995 St Matthews Healthcare is specialist private Mental Health and Social Care provider of adult in-patient and rehabilitation care with step-down and nursing care provision in the Midlands and East Sussex.

Our service users enjoy personalised care in a safe, caring environment to help promote their mental and physical wellbeing in our growing portfolio of nursing care homes and hospitals.

At St Matthews Healthcare we strive to be an outstanding care provider and employer of choice by inspiring _Passion for Care_ by putting _People First_, where _Positivity_ and _Partnership_ fuel Progressive growth in an environment that draws strength from actively _Pursuing Diversity._

**The Moreton Centre is a is a bright, welcoming specialist nursing care home that provides personalised, compassionate, and professional care in a peaceful seaside residential area of St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex, for people with mental health difficulties.**

**Key Responsibilities of the Role**:

- Activity Planning: Delivering & arranging activities for residents to provide a stimulating environment to meet their emotional, social, physical & intellectual needs. i.e. group activities and one-on-one sessions.
- To organise and facilitate resident meetings. Attending resident meetings to see if service users are happy with the activities on offer, as and when required.
- To co-ordinate & produce an activities programme, to include both one to one activity as well as group sessions, ensuring that this is circulated for all service users to know what is taking place.
- Shopping for Residents and home: Manage and execute shopping tasks for residents and the home.
- Escort Residents: Accompany residents to hospital appointments and events.
- Event Planning: Organize events such as Easter, summer, and Christmas fairs.
- Birthday Planning: Plan and organize birthday parties for residents.
- Ensuring the individual needs of service users are met, providing opportunities for individuals to use their skills and enhance their quality of life, whilst maintaining their independence and privacy.
- Hairdresser and Chiropodist Arrangements: Schedule and arrange appointments with hairdressers and chiropodists. Being aware of their likes, dislikes, nutritional & cultural needs.
- Displaying compassion, patience & empathy in all tasks whilst being creative, organised & reliable in approach to work.
- To motivate, encourage & participate in activities with service users, and delegate to staff, activity responsibilities to ensure that activities are taking place at regular intervals.
- To arrange photographs of events that take place, and to supply articles to Central Office for newsletter/ share with their families.
- To observe & promote service user choice, independence, dignity, privacy, fulfilment & other rights.
- To help to create a warm and friendly atmosphere within the home, which allows & encourages service users to develop and participate in the running of the home to their fullest potential.
- Note: This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the position. It is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, or qualifications required._

**Benefits of Joining SMHC**:

- **Company pension**.
- **Generous holiday entitlement**.
- **Wagestream** - take control of your pay with Wagestream, so you can access your wage when you need it.
- **Blue Light Card**:

- discounts on shopping, days out, restaurants and much more.
- **Staff development and training** - bespoke and progressive approach with abundant opportunities for career development.
- **Refer a friend scheme -**rewards you up to £500* for every recommendation that you make that successfully starts working for us.
- **Free on-site parking**.
- **Health Shield**:

- health checks and cash back plans that make it easy and affordable for our employees to manage their health.
- **My GP Anytime** - through Health Shield enjoy 24/7 phone access to a GP with the option for a video chat on weekdays and a private prescriptions service.
- **My Counselling** - through Health Shield, enjoy 24/7 Counselling and Support Helpline providing guidance and counselling on matters from family to finance.

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

Pay: £12.64-£12.88 per hour

Expected hours: 37.5 per week

**Benefits**:

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

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

**Experience**:

- Activities Co-