Job Description

Activities:

• Help Clients 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 Clients to maintain pre-existing hobbies.
• Encourage Staff Members, Relatives and Friends to participate in the Care Centre’s activities.
• Accompany Clients, where possible, to off-site activities, which may occasionally take place outwith normal working hours.
• Help to create an atmosphere that suits individual Clients 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 documentation, and assist the Named Carer to review and update Client Care Files.

Communication:

• Discuss the aims and objectives of recreation therapy with other Staff Members.
• Report any changes in Clients’ 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 (HR):

• 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 personal / 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 Handyperson, any faulty appliances, damaged furniture, equipment or any potential hazard.
• Promote safe working practice in 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 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 Care Centre 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.Safe Guarding of Vulnerable Adults.
• Ensure you have a broad understanding and knowledge of safeguarding and how the principals are applied in practice.
• You should ensure that you have read the SOVA policy and ensure your knowledge is kept up to date.
• Understand the reporting and escalation process

Job Type: Part-time
Pay: From £12.21 per hour

Benefits:

• On-site parking

Work Location: In perso