REPORTING TO: Home Manager

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & QUALIFICATIONS

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

JOB PURPOSE:

As the Activities Co-ordinator, you are responsible for planning and implementing activities appropriate to Clients’ needs and requests. You will also assist the Home Manager in organising fundraising events. Your main duties and responsibilities will include:

Activities:

• Helping Clients to socialise within the Home, and provide a variety of activities that cater for all tastes.
• Planning and initiating monthly rolling / individual programmes, and encouraging Clients to maintain pre-existing hobbies.
• Encouraging Staff Members, Relatives and Friends to participate in the Home's activities.
• Accompanying Clients, where possible, to offsite activities, which may occasionally take place outside normal working hours.
• Helping to create an atmosphere that suits individual Clients within the Home.
• Assisting with fund raising, and budgeting, for entertainments, materials and outings.
• Maintaining full and accurate records of daily activities using appropriate documentation, and assisting the Named Carer to review and update Client Care Files.

Communication:

• Discussing the aims and objectives of recreation therapy with other Staff Members.
• Reporting any changes in Clients' physical or emotional condition to the Home Manager or Person in Charge.
• Providing comfort and company, on a one to one basis, for Clients who are unable to undertake any form of activity.
• Arranging / participating in Staff and Client meetings, as and when required.

Human Resources (HR):

• Assisting the Home Manager when interviewing relevant Volunteers and assistant Staff Members, and supervising their work, in line with the Company’s policies and procedures.

Marketing:

• Actively marketing the Home and promoting a positive personal / professional profile within the local community, ensuring the good reputation of the Home at all times.

Training & Development:

• Ensuring all Staff Members know how to use appropriate equipment.
• Attending mandatory training days / courses, on or off site, as and when required.
• Maintaining professional knowledge and competence.

Health & Safety:

• Reporting 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.
• Understanding and ensuring the implementation of the Home’s Health and Safety, Infection Control and Hygiene policies, and Emergency and Fire procedures.
• Reporting to the Home Manager, or the Handyperson, any faulty appliances, damaged furniture, equipment or any potential hazard.
• Promoting safe working practice in the Home.

General:

• Contributing to the safeguarding of adults by ensuring you are aware of your role in relation to the Home’s Safeguarding Adult’s Policy, taking steps to protects Residents from any form of abuse or neglect and use the appropriate reporting mechanisms to inform the Home’s Management of any concerns.
• Adhering to all new, and changes in Local and Central Government initiatives as and when they are implemented.
• Ensuring that all information of confidential nature gained in the course of duty is not divulged to third parties.
• Notifying 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.
• Ensuring the security of the Home is maintained at all times.
• Adhering to all Company policies and procedures within the defined timescales.
• Ensuring all equipment is clean and well maintained.
• Carrying out any other tasks that may be reasonably assigned to you.

This Job Description indicates only the main duties and responsibilities of the post. It is not intended as an exhaustive list.