Activities Assistant - Harrow Weald, United Kingdom - Bell Lane Consultancy

Bell Lane Consultancy

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Harrow Weald, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Day centre worker

Dementia care and support
Activities

Activities Assistant working with older people, including those with dementia.

Bullet Points

Dementia Support
Activities

Support

Activities

Assistant

Harrow
A rewarding job as an Activities Assistant has become available with our client, a charity who care and support older people. This role is based in the community centre where older people come to visit on a daily basis to take part in varies activities. This role includes, with a colleague collecting the older person from their home, which will be fairly close to the community centre, carry out activities and exercises with the older people. You will also need to provide personal care where necessary. Following a stimulating day at the day centre, you will and your colleagues will be required to take the older people back home.
You will need to be a driver for this role, hold a British drivers licence and be happy to drive the company vehicle for collections and drop offs.
Some of the benefits of this role include:
Pay rate up to £11.05 p/h
28 days holiday including bank holidays
4% employer pension contribution
Employee referral bonus scheme
Excellent training opportunities
Free meals
Wellbeing & staff recognition initiatives

Some aspects of the role include:

Running and taking part in activities and programming across the community service, in line with agreed standards
Working collaboratively with the programming/coordinator teams to set up appropriate technology to support service users taking part in activities from home.
Carry out actions as indicated on a serviceusers care plan. This may involve working in collaboration with internal social work colleagues, relatives and external agencies.
Partner with the senior OT dementia Lead to promote dementia care.
Coordinate and participate in the effective and safe delivery of transport services across the older people services
Working with and supporting the manager and the specialisms of community, digital, dementia and programming to ensure that the community services team can effectively share best practice and work in partnership to deliver outstanding services

The skills, qualifications and experience you will need are as follows:

NVQ level 2 or equivalent experience
Minimum 2 years' experience in a frontline role, working with older and/or disabled people
Minimum 2 years' experience of working with people living with dementia in a personal or professional role
Experience leading a team of volunteers
Experience working in a complex multi stakeholder environment
Experience of or an interest in working in a coproduction culture
Knowledge of The Care Act, The Mental Capacity Act, DOLS and general adult safeguarding best practice
Ability to ensure continuously improve its services through rigorous management, monitoring and measurement against business plans, budgets, targets and KPIs
Exceptional customer service skills, with the ability to deliver a consistently highquality customer experience
Ability to work empathetically and respectfully with people of all ages and abilities
Outstanding administrative, management and organisational skills, with the ability to work within tight deadlines and budgets
Ability to use own initiative and work independently
Ability to handle challenging situations gently, with confidence and integrity
Ability to lead and be led amongst a highly creative and collaborative peer group
Ability to work in a team and build trusting relationships with others
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and the ability to influence people at all levels, both within and outside the organisation
Excellent problemsolving skills, and able to think clearly under pressure
High levels of IT literacy in the use of modern business systems e.g., Microsoft Office Suite, Internet and cloudbased services and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems