Activity Coordinator

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**JOB TITLE**:Activities Coordinator

**REPORTING TO**:Home Manager

**JOB PURPOSE**:To plan and implement activities appropriate to Clients’ needs and
requests. To assist the Home Manager to organise fundraising events.

**SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND QUALIFICATIONS Required**:

- Proven ability to develop and organise a range of events / activities for Clients in all Client categories
- Good communication and organisational skills
- Team player
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Friendly, creative and confident
- Genuine interest in working with the relevant Client group
- Satisfactory Police Check and check against the POVA List (where applicable)

**Desired**:

- Previous experience of working with the relevant Client group
- Qualification in remedial / occupational therapies
- Flexible approach towards working routines

**MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES**

Activities:

- Help Clients to socialise within the Care Home, and provide a variety of activities that cater for all tastes.
- Plan and initiate monthly rolling / individual programmes, and encourage Clients to maintain preexisting hobbies.
- Encourage Staff Members, Relatives and Friends to participate in the Care Home's activities.
- Accompany Clients, where possible, to offsite activities, which may occasionally take place out of normal working hours.
- Help to create an atmosphere that suits individual Clients within the Care 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 Client Care Files.

Communication:

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

Human Resources (HR):

- Assist the Home Manager when interviewing relevant Volunteers and assistant Staff Members, and supervise their work, in line with the Company’s policies and procedures.

Marketing:

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

Training and 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 and Safety:

- Report immediately to the Home Manager, or Person in Charge, any illness of an infectious nature or accident incurred by a Client, colleague, self or another.
- Understand and ensure the implementation of the Care 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 Care 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 Care 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.

**Job Type**: Part-time

**Salary**: £9.50 per hour

Schedule:

- Day shift