Wellbeing and Activities Assistant

About Us

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, with a vision of 'creating meaningful lives together.' They offer exceptional care across their growing network of over 100 homes, building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.

As a Wellbeing and Activities Assistant at Hinckley House Care Home in Leicester, you will support the Wellbeing Coordinator in providing a wide range of activities to engage and stimulate the residents' physical, cognitive, and social well-being. Your responsibilities include maintaining a safe living and working environment, reporting changes in residents' condition, supporting with ordering and preparing supplies for activities, and establishing links with the local community.

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Shift details: 9 to 5, 4 days per week, including alternate weekends.

At Avery Healthcare, we support the people who care for our residents. We celebrate and support you every step of the way. When you join us, you’ll make a positive impact on residents' lives every day. We are committed to helping you grow in a caring, supportive environment, with opportunities to learn and develop throughout your career. Our culture values respect, compassion, and a shared commitment to exceptional care.

We’re now looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award‑winning team as a Wellbeing and Activities Assistant at Hinckley House Care Home in Leicester. If this sounds like the place for you, we’d love to hear from you!

• Maintaining a safe living and working environment, contributing to the positive and professional image of the home.
• Reporting any changes in residents' physical or emotional condition to the Wellbeing and Activities Coordinator, Home Manager, and the care staff.
• Supporting with ordering and preparing supplies for upcoming activities as directed.
• Establishing links with the local community (e.g., schools, spiritual groups, museums/libraries) to encourage access to the wider community and promote intergenerational activity.

To succeed in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in everything you do.

• Have effective communication skills, verbal and written.
• Demonstrate understanding of the role interaction plays in the general well‑being of people.
• Have a positive attitude toward older people and a commitment to providing stimulating, quality activities and social events.
• Have previously worked with older people in a residential nursing or dementia setting.

• Effective communication skills.
• Understanding of the role interaction’s impact on general well‑being.
• Positive attitude toward older people and commitment to stimulating, quality activities.
• Previous experience working with older people in a residential nursing or dementia setting.

• ADBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on volume of applications received and business needs.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.