Activities Coordinator

Position: Activities Coordinator Care home: Walton Grove Location: 1 Guido Street, Failsworth, Oldham, M35 0AL Contract type: 40 hours per week Rate: £13.10 per hour

As an Activities Coordinator, you'll organise and lead meaningful and entertaining activities for the people we support. You'll play a key role in empowering them to live fulfilled and happy lives, and you'll be the face of the Walton Grove care home in Oldham.

About Exemplar Health Care

Walton Grove is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country's leading nursing care providers. We support adults living with acquired brain injuries, complex mental health needs, dementia, and physical disabilities.

About the role

Our Activities Coordinators organise creative and fun activities for the people we support.

No two days will ever be the same, but your day to day responsibilities will include:

• Organising individual activity plans based on people's unique goals and interests.
• Fostering community spirit through group activities.
• Supporting people to maintain their current hobbies, interests and educational opportunities-and to take up new ones.
• Assisting people to become more involved in their local community.
• Celebrating national awareness days, holidays and individual/collective achievements.
• Promoting choice, dignity and independence.

As part of our mission to make every day better, staffing levels give you the time to deliver truly person centred activities, supported by a supportive team around you.

About you

Above all, you're someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork. You're also caring, kind, funny, a creative thinker, enthusiastic, encouraging, inclusive, a born organiser with a positive, can do approach, great at listening and communicating, and you understand individual needs. You'll put people at the heart of everything you do.

If you haven't worked in the care sector before, we'll help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy and ongoing training programmes.

Qualifications

We value relevant experience and qualifications, but they aren't essential for this role. Work experience in the care sector is a plus, but not required.

What we offer

We offer great rewards and perks including:

• Regular supervision
• Peer support
• Learning opportunities and career prospects
• Access to wages before payday
• Retail and lifestyle discounts
• Free DBS check
• 24/7 counselling and support
• Blue Light Card eligibility

Applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. We're unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.