Activities Coordinator
Astley Grange Homes Ltd
Ashton-Under-Lyne
Part-time
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Job Description
*\*\*Please only apply if you have some Experience\*\**
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE \& QUALIFICATIONS
20 Hours a week
Required:
- Proven ability to develop and organise a range of events / activities for Clients in all Client categories
- Good communication and organisational 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
Pay: From £12\.75 per hour
Benefits:
- Company events
- On\-site parking
- Ashton\-Under\-Lyne OL6 6TB: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
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