Activities Leader - Bangor, United Kingdom - Beaumont Care Homes
Description
Initially maternity cover - potential for permanentDo you have experience working as a care assistant? With children in a nursery/creche? or as a teaching assistant? Or similar roles where you enjoy being active and creative?
Could you provide a range of planned activities and ensure that resident interests and needs are met?
As the largest healthcare provider in Northern Ireland we understand the importance of providing our residents with stimulating activities, entertainment, crafts, music therapy, hobbies and interests across many forms.
About The Role
As an Activities Leader you will:
- Use your own creative talents to form the ongoing activities plan for the residents in our care.
- Assist in the assessment of the needs of the residents, through meeting with them, other team members and family members
- Support providing stimulation and exercise to residents that meet their individual needs through a wide and varied activities programme including music, exercise and arts & crafts
- Build relationships with residents and families to gather life story information and ensure care plans and activities are developed and updated accordingly
- Spend individual time with residents, care staff and relatives to create personalised activities that engage our residents and reflect their interest and hobbies
- Assist in developing community links with local groups and arrange trips and excursions with varied destinations and purposes to involve as many residents in activity outside the Home
- Support in the rollout of various levels of initiatives and encourage others to be involved.
- Assist in the creation of evidencing and tracking activity engagement via digital and written methods
We provide you with excellent learning, development and support opportunities, to equip you with the knowledge and skills to make a real difference in the role.
- Competitive salary
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Various shifts available
- Access to excellent training
- Career development opportunities
- Free onsite parking
- Free uniform
- NEST work place pension contributions
- Long service awards
Required Criteria
Desired Criteria
- Previous experience in a care environment
- Previous experience planning and delivering structured and meaningful activities
Skills Needed
About The Company
Beaumont Care Homes have residential and nursing homes across Northern Ireland; in Belfast, Bangor, Ballymena, Comber, Donaghadee, Dunmurray, Jordanstown, Hillsborough, Holywood, Lisburn, and Newtownabbey - So there's always a Beaumont Care Home nearby.
We aim to provide a safe, clean, relaxed and homely environment for all our residents, where care, well-being and comfort are of prime importance and where our staff feel is the best place to work in the care sector.
The atmosphere in all our homes is welcoming and inviting whilst our healthcare staff are professional and ready to care, delivering a home-from-home feeling that helps the transition from home or hospital easier and less stressful.
As a company, we believe in healthy, homemade food, and our trained chefs prepare tasty, exciting, and appealing meals to various tastes, regardless of appetite or culture.
Company Culture
Beaumont Care Homes offer varied activities, from trips out and summer fetes to indoor activities including arts and crafts, pamper sessions and visiting entertainment.
Our team of healthcare professionals and the safe, comfortable accommodation at Beaumont Care Homes Support people living with dementia, whilst also providing nursing care along with other specialist care services.
We want people to join Beaumont Care who wish to work with older and vulnerable people. Ideally, we are looking for someone who is caring and has a can-do attitude. Is that person you?
Our senior managers have often begun their working life as carers, which we recognise are essential to our service, and then climbed the career ladder to become Home and Regional Managers.
Company Benefits
We provide professional training, personal development and promotion paths to support and progress you. Working at our residents' home will be stimulating and rewarding, as we maintain high care standards.
Vacation, Paid time off, Retirement plan and/or pension, Flexible schedule, Employee development programs, Free parking, Open office, Competitiv
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