Activities Co-Ordinator
Job description
Hours of Work: 35 hours per week - negotiable You'll organise fun activities for residents and support them to actively take part in social activities that interest them. You'll play a central role in delivering purposeful activities that stimulate residents and improve their wellbeing. The impact of purposeful activity is important for all residents and particularly for those people living with dementia.
Responsibilities
- Build appropriate professional relationships with our residents that help them adjust to life in a care/support setting.
- Work with residents, their family members/representative, to build individual lifestyle histories and, using these, create ongoing plans for activities within the home.
- Create weekly schedules of meaningful activities for each resident, personalised to their likes, dislikes, needs and abilities, helping them to try new things and continue to take part in the hobbies and interests that make them who they are.
- Create and maintain a schedule of group activities tailored to residents to run alongside one-to-one sessions, enabling residents to take part in communal activities as well as individual hobbies as per their wishes.
- Develop strong and continuing relationships with colleagues to enable the sharing of ideas and information, ensuring you are all working as a team to provide a safe and fulfilling experience within the home for every resident.
Skills and Qualifications
Essential Skills
- 2 years’ experience working in a similar role in a similar setting where engagement/activity development was a key feature of your role.
- Ability to develop meaningful activities for older people which helps to maintain independence and integrity.
- Ability to research and arranging suitable outings and programmes.
- Vacancy ID
- 1724615
- Job Sector
- Carers and Support Workers
- Area
- Co Down
- Location
- Millisle - Copelands, 97 Donaghadee Road BT22 2BZ
- Salary
- £22,520.68 per annum based on full time
- No. vacancies
- 1
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Weekly hours
- 35
- Published date
- 30/06/2025
- Closing date
- 09/07/2025
- Worktime
- Rota across 7 days
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