Activities Co-ordinator

We are looking for an Activities Coordinator to join our team at Birch Tree Manor, a sixty-two bed residential care facility that takes on requirements for respite and nursing care, as well as welcoming dementia sufferers.

Responsibilities include:

• Help Service Users to 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 Service Users to maintain pre-existing hobbies
• Encourage Staff Members, Relatives and Friends to participate in the Care Centres activities
• Accompany Service Users where possible to of site activities which may occasionally take place outwith normal working hours
• Help to create an atmosphere that suits individual Service Users within the Care Centre
• Assist with fund raising and budgeting for entertainments, materials and outings
• Maintain full and accurate records of daily activities using appropriate documents and assist the Key Worker to review and update Service User Care Files

We are looking for:

• Proven ability to develop and organise a range of events/activities for Service Users in all categories
• Friendly, creative and confident
• Good numerical and word processing skills
• Genuine interest in working with the relevant Service Users group
• Good communication and organisational skills
• Confident team player
• Satisfactory Policy Check and check against the PoVA list
• Ability to work on own initiative