Activities Co-ordinator - Rotherham, United Kingdom - WHISTON HALL CARE HOME

WHISTON HALL CARE HOME

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Rotherham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job description

Job Title:
Activities Co-Ordinator

Reporting to:
Home Manager

Job Purpose:

To plan and implement activities appropriate to clients' needs and requests.

To assist Home Manager to organise fundraising events

Skills, Knowledge & Qualifications:

Required:

Proven ability to develop a range of events/activities for clients in all client categories
Good communication and Organisation skills
Team player
Ability to work on own initiative
Friendly, creative and confident
Genuine interest in working with the relevant client group
Satisfactory Police Check and check against the POVA List (where applicable)

Desired:

Previous experience of working with the relevant client group
Qualification in remedial/occupational therapies
Flexible approach towards working routines

Main Responsibilities:

Activities:

Help clients socialise within the care centre, and provide a variety of activities that cater for all tastes.
Plan and initiate monthly rolling/individual programmes, and encourage clients to maintain preexisting hobbies. Ensuring a wide variety of programmes available to clients.
Encourage staff members, relatives and friends to participate in the care center's activities.
Accompany clients, where possible, to off site activities, which may occasionally take place outside normal working hours.
Help to create an atmosphere that suits individual clients within the care centre.
Assist with fundraising, and budgeting, for entertainment, materials and outgoings.
Maintain full and accurate records of daily activities using appropriate documentation, and assist the named carer to review and update client care files.
To organise outings and entertainment for the clients'
To promote and encourage independence, dignity and respect any decision to decline from activities.
To encourage, assist and support clients who participate in activities.
Monitor the effectiveness of activities with residents ad arrange alternatives if necessary.
Arrange, wherever possible, for the local library for suitable reading material to be available to clients.
Inform clients of clergy visits, and arrange for privacy for any services held.
To accompany clients on local appointments.
To assist in daily living activities alongside other staff.
To deliver any papers or mail to residents and help with any reading or such.

Communication:

Discuss the aims and objectives of recreation therapy with other staff members.
Report any changes in client's physical or emotional condition to the Home Manager or Person in Charge.
Provide comfort and company, on a one to one basis, for clients who are unable to undertake any form of activity.
Arrange/participate in staff and client meetings, as and when required.

Human Resources:

Assist the Home Manager when interviewing relevant Volunteers and assistant staff members, and supervise their work, in line with the Company's policies and procedures.

Marketing:

Actively market the care centre and promote a positive/professional profile within the local community, ensuring the good reputation of the care centre at all times.

Training & Development:

Ensure all staff members know how to use appropriate equipment.
Attend mandatory training days/courses, on or off site, as and when required.
Maintain professional knowledge and competence.

Health & Safety:

Report immediately to the Home Manager, or Person in Charge, any illness of an infectious nature or accident incurred by a client, colleague, self or another.
Understand, and ensure the implementation of, the care centre's Health and Safety policy, and Emergency and Fire procedures.
Report to the Home Manager, or the Handy Person, any faulty appliances, damaged furniture, equipment or any potential hazard.
Promote safe working practice within the care centre.

General:

Ensure that all information of confidential nature gained in the course of duty is not divulged to third parties.
Notify the Home Manager, or Person in Charge, as soon as possible of your inability to report for duty, and also on your return to work from all periods of absence.
Ensure the security of the care centre is maintained at all times.
Adhere to all Company policies and procedures within the defined time scales.
Ensure all equipment is clean and well maintained.
Carry out any other tasks that may be reasonably assigned to you.

Job Types:
Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Salary:
£8.91 per hour

Job Types:
Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Part-time hours: 24 per week

Salary:
£9.50 per hour

Schedule: