Activities Coordinator

Location: Brampton

WELLBEING & ACTIVITIES COORDINATOR Shift - SATURDAY and SUNDAY ONLY - 09:30 - 16:30, 14 hours per week, £12.71 per hour Our home employs a Wellbeing and Activity Coordinator, who is responsible for getting to know each of our residents individually and provide them with a range of opportunities to engage with activities that are meaningful to them personally. The idea is to support residents to have the best quality of life possible and most of all to be happy living in our homes.

ABOUT

THE ROLE To be a Wellbeing & Activity Coordinator, you will need to be well organised, creative, and proactive. Like many jobs, no day is the same; one day you could be throwing a themed event to celebrate summer and the next day you could be in a dementia-friendly cinema watching the Wizard of Oz or playing card games with the residents.

PLANNING YOUR WEEK Your main role within a care setting is to provide activities that benefit the wellbeing of a resident s, ensuring you focus on their emotional, intellectual, spiritual and physical wellbeing. Each Wellbeing & Activity Coordinator brings their own ideas to the role and will find their own unique strength. Some people are great at creating quizzes, conducting craft sessions and others excel at stimulating physical exercise through gardening or other outdoor activities.

It is important to plan a diverse activity week, you weekly planned program should help you construct this. USING YOUR LOCAL KNOWLEDGE Behind the scenes, you are organising events and reaching out to the local community to ensure that residents dont lose touch with groups and friends that they enjoyed locally before coming to live in the care home. The phrase it's not what you know its who you know is fundamental to this job role and having a little notebook with you at times can often be beneficial.

Even if you do not know the local area well, you will begin to collect local contacts and resources such as schools, churches, and charities that make your job even more rewarding. GO WITH THE FLOW! There is never a dull day as a Wellbeing & Activity Coordinator. Planned activities dont always go the way you wanted, so you have to be proactive and think on your feet.

Sometimes residents decide that they dont want to join in at the last minute, but it helps to ask people what they want to do instead. Good communication skills are essential, and you need to be flexible and go with the flow some days. Other days you can be surprised when a successful one to one or group session brings tangible benefits for a resident.

Being a Wellbeing & Activity Coordinator for Kingsfield Care Home is a unique and important role within the care profession. We think you will find it really rewarding and glad you gave it a try. If being a Wellbeing & Activities Coordinator sounds like you, then we want you to join our Family at Kingsfield Care Home. Our Wellbeing & Activities Co-Ordinators are key to planning rewarding activities for our Residents.

They design and implement all the activities; personalising them to ensure each resident is included. Fund-raising is also an important part of the role thinking outside of the box to create new ideas and networking with local businesses. You will need to have keen attention to detail, excellent communication skills, be a real team player, adaptable and have the ability to turn your hand at just about anything.

Most importantly, you will need to be extremely creative, flexible and love working with people! THE

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES OF WELLBEING & ACTIVITIES COORDINATOR INCLUDE:
Identify the needs of residents through reading and contributing to individual life stories and care plans. Document participation, experience, and document activity information in residents care plans. Support activities, events, and outings, encouraging relatives and visitors to be involved. Contribute to a balance of large group, small group and individual activities. Assist with in-house amenities and the provision of services from organisations in the home.

Assist with building links with the local community (e.g., schools, spiritual groups, museums/libraries). To be involved in supporting…