CONTRACT TYPE: PERMANENT, DAYS

About the company:
We’re looking for an experienced Activities Coordinator to join our St Marys Team at Shipley. Your passion for the highest quality care and the kindness to want to make a difference to the lives of individuals is essential to your success in this role.
JOB PURPOSE: To plan and implement activities appropriate to Residents’ needs and
requests. To assist Home Manager to organize fundraising events.

Activities:
· Help Residents to socialize within the Home, and provide a variety of activities that cater for all tastes.
· Plan and initiate monthly rolling / individual programmes, and encourage Residents to maintain pre-existing hobbies.
· Encourage Staff Members, Relatives and Friends to participate in the Home’s activities.
· Accompany Residents, where possible, to off-site activities, which may occasionally take place outside normal working hours.
· Help to create an atmosphere that suits individual Residents within the Home.
· Assist with fund raising, and budgeting, for entertainments, materials and outings.
· Maintain full and accurate records of daily activities using appropriate documentation, and assist the Named Carer to review and update Resident Care Files.
Communication:
· Discuss the aims and objectives of recreation therapy with other Staff Members.
· Report any changes in Residents’ physical or emotional condition to the Home Manager or Person in Charge.
· Provide comfort and company, on a one-to-one basis, for Residents who are unable to undertake any form of activity.
· Arrange / participate in Staff and Resident meetings, as and when required.
Marketing:
· Actively market the Home and promote a positive personal / professional profile within the local community, ensuring the good reputation of the Home 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 Resident, colleague, self or another.
· Understand and ensure the implementation of the Home’s Health and Safety policy, and Emergency and Fire procedures.
· Report to the Home Manager, or the Handyperson, any faulty appliances, damaged furniture, equipment or any potential hazard.
· Promote safe working practice in the Home.
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 the Person in Charge, as soon as possible of your inability to work, and also on your return to work from all periods of absence.
· Ensure the security of the Home is maintained at all times.
· Adhere to all Company policies and procedures within the defined timescales.
· Ensure all equipment is clean and well maintained.
· Carry out any other tasks that may be reasonably assigned to you.