Job Vacancy:
Recreation & Wellbeing (Activities) Lead
Location
: Woodstock Residential Care Home in Sittingbourne,
Kent ME10 4HN
Contracted hours:
37.5
hours (to include – every other weekend free, as
applicable),
Work flexibility in accordance with your availability and the
service requirements
(Hourly) rate of pay:
£13.00
Why choose us?
At Woodstock Care Home as a Recreation and Wellbeing Lead, you will
enjoy being part of an exceptionally supporting team, welcoming you
into providing physical, emotional, and social assistance to our
residents.
Woodstock Care Home is part of Nellsar, a
family-owned company with 35 years of exceptional person-centred care
experience, comprising of 13 nursing and residential care homes
covering Kent, Essex and Surrey.
The perfect role for you:
Being a caring heart, with a passion for making people happy,
you will thrive on bringing a smile on our residents’ face, whilst
supporting their physical and mental wellbeing. If you are a kind,
compassionate person who respects people’s personal choice, dignity
and privacy, we would be honoured to welcome you in our team.
You will have the opportunity to excel whilst:
- Supporting new residents with the settling in process, assisting
their families and friends and maintaining continuous communication.
- Creating and reviewing person-centred care planning documentation
reflecting the residents’ current needs and preferences.
- Developing and planning programmes, outings and events, staffing
the events and overseeing the implementation of activities.
- Encouraging people to attend or join an activity, motivating them
and keeping them engaged throughout events.
- Ensuring the residents’ choice is always maintained and feedback
is obtained regularly, informing further Recreation and Wellbeing
programmes organised in the home.
- Supporting and enabling residents to access social networks and
maintain personal interests in accordance with best practice, agreed
standards, legislation and within the financial budget.
- Maintaining the confidentiality, privacy and dignity of residents
and supporting the care team in this respect.
- Being a vital link between our residents and their families and
friends, advocates or representatives.
- Supporting and developing the Recreation and Wellbeing Team
according to individual needs and following equality, diversity and
inclusion principles.
- Maintaining skills at a current level and undertaking such
training and development as required to maintain and progress knowledge.
You will bring to the team:
- Dedication and commitment to making a difference to others’ lives.
- Experience of working with people, in particular those that may
have additional support needs e.g. people living with dementia.
- An empathetic nature and a strong ability to communicate effectively.
- Customer service: active listener skills, professional telephone
etiquette and excellent written communication skills.
- Leadership and organisational skills.
- Good IT skills (Outlook, Word) and ability to use authorised
handheld devices (smartphones) to record activities.
- Experience of event planning.
- Excellent team-work ability.
What we offer in return to your dedication
- Competitive pay and paid training hours
- Enhanced pay rate for Bank Holidays
- Flexibility of work according to your personal availability
- Workplace pension
- ‘Refer a Friend’ payments of up to £1000
- Staff longevity payment award scheme
- Enhanced DBS paid for the company on completion of six months employment
- Comprehensive induction programme
- Excellent opportunities for professional development by having
access to funded qualifications via the apprenticeship programme
- 5.6 weeks annual leave
- Working in a supportive team
- The opportunity to help your team develop
- Maintaining yours and your loved ones’ wellbeing via free 24 hour
access to confidential employee support helpline
- Nellsar work uniforms
It’s our mission at Nellsar to ensure that people live life to
the full
We really are passionate about making every day count and
bringing colour and laughter to the people living in our home, their
visitors and the team supporting them. We care for 38 residents –
body, mind and soul – tailoring the things they do each day to bring a
real sense of enjoyment, fun, and self-esteem.
Our Recreation
and Well-Being Champions have been specially selected for their care,
compassion, and can-do attitude. The people living at Woodstock Care
Home enjoy an extensive range of activities of their choice, assisted
by the recreation and wellbeing team.
Thank you for considering becoming a part of the Nellsar family, we
are looking forward to welcoming you
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