Activities Assistant - Care Home

About the Role

As an Activities Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll deliver imaginative, fun and varied activities to ensure our residents can enjoy an environment that is motivational and fulfilling. We want to make sure each individual can pursue the interests they most enjoy and that means you'll have a real impact on our residents' lives. The Activities Assistant role involves helping us to deliver an entertainment and activities programme that covers a wide range of pastimes, social activities, outings and events.

Put simply, you'll help every resident to live as independently as possible and enhance their involvement with their family, friends and the local community.

You don't need any specific experience to join us as an Activities Assistant, so you could come from any background. What's important is that you have a sense of fun, creativity, and the ability to encourage and motivate others. You'll also need to have that little extra something – a real interest in the people we support. Enthusiastic and empathetic, you're someone who'll really enjoy helping our residents to live their lives to the full.

Bring us all of that, and you'll have every opportunity to develop your skills further with a range of courses designed to build your confidence in every aspect of your role.

As an Activities Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll deliver imaginative, fun and varied activities to ensure residents enjoy a motivational and fulfilling environment. This role involves helping to deliver a program covering a wide range of pastimes, social activities, outings, and events, allowing residents to live as independently as possible. You don't need specific experience, just a sense of fun, creativity, and an interest in supporting people.

Opportunities for skill development and training are available.

In return for your dedication, you'll receive a competitive rate of pay plus our sector-leading benefits and rewards package including:
Free training and development for all roles, Access to wellbeing and support tools, A range of retail discounts and savings, Unlimited referrals with our Refer a Friend bonus scheme, Employee of the Month rewards and Long Service Awards.

Workplace Pension scheme, with Employer contributions from 3%.

Barchester Healthcare is a leading care provider, offering a wide range of services for elderly individuals across the UK. They prioritize providing quality care and support to enhance the lives of their residents. In the position of Activities Assistant, you have the opportunity to be a part of a compassionate team focused on enriching the lives of residents. Barchester values creativity and enthusiasm, encouraging staff to engage residents with enjoyable activities.

Employees benefit from a competitive salary, professional development opportunities, and a supportive working environment.

• No specific qualifications or experience are required for the role of Activities Assistant. However, having a sense of fun, creativity, and the ability to motivate others is essential. An interest in the well-being of residents and a willingness to develop skills further through various training courses is important for the role.

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.