Activities Co-Ordinator
Company
Location
Gateshead, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
4/1/2025
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Description
Job Summary
Akari Care is a leading provider of award-winning care homes, offering personalized care and a supportive environment for older adults. As an Activities Coordinator, you will play a vital role in enhancing the lives of our residents by organizing a diverse range of activities and fostering a sense of community within the home.
Main duties of the job
As an Activities Coordinator, you will be responsible for planning and implementing engaging activities that cater to the diverse interests, abilities, and cultural backgrounds of our residents. You will work closely with the Home Manager and the wider care team to create a vibrant and inclusive community where residents can maintain their hobbies, try new activities, and enjoy quality time with others. Your role will involve budgeting for entertainment, materials, and outings, as well as actively participating in and accompanying residents on offsite activities. You will demonstrate a caring nature, flexibility, and an outgoing personality to ensure our residents feel valued, respected, and able to lead fulfilling lives.
About Us
Akari Care is a leading provider of award-winning care homes, offering personalized care and a supportive environment for older adults. The company is committed to creating a community where residents are valued, respected, and provided with the care they deserve. Akari Care has a strong focus on promoting diversity, inclusion, and a positive, caring atmosphere within its homes.
Date posted
17 February 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£11.49 an hour
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
1231990728
Job locations
Akari Care
Gateshead
NE8 1QU
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Package Description
** 16 Hours per week **
If you are passionate about caring for the elderly and want to build a long-term career in one of our award-winning homes, then look no further than Akari Care. Our aim is to create an environment where our residents are valued, respected, and are offered the personalised care they deserve.
We now seek an Activities Coordinator who is enthusiastic about, and thrives on, making a real and positive difference to the lives of older people.
Working in collaboration and unity with the Home Manager and the wider and extended community teams you will be responsible for helping and engaging residents to socialise within the home. This includes providing a variety of activities that cater for all tastes, abilities, cultures and, respecting everyone as an individual, ensuring that you promote diversity and inclusion at all stages. You will plan and initiate rolling / individual programmes, encouraging residents not only to maintain pre-existing hobbies but also to endeavor to try other activities. By supporting and actively encouraging colleagues, relatives, and friends to participate in activitieswith residents you will enable additional stimulation not only in the activity itself but in promoting socialising and spending quality time with others to help enrich our residents lives. Through willingly accompanying residents, where possible, to offsite activities, you will go above and beyond for our residents.
In actively assisting with innovative fund-raising initiatives and budgeting for entertainment, materials, and outings, you will enjoy thinking creatively and out of the box with regards to ways in which additional funds can be raised to support our residents activities. You will help to ensure that you and your colleagues create an environment which is supportive, caring and kind and undertake all duties in a way which provides a secure and safe atmosphere in which our residents are valued, respected, retain their individualism and dignity in order to lead full lives.
By showing us you can match our values with the right desire for personalised excellence, community spirit and a kind, caring and compassionate nature, we, in return, can offer you a career developing your knowledge, skills and abilities to support vulnerable adults with the care their individual needs require.
What We Require From You
Responsibilities
Job description Job responsibilities
Whats in it for you:
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Akari Care Limited
Address
Akari Care
Gateshead
NE8 1QU
Employer's website
https://www.akaricare.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)
Akari Care is a leading provider of award-winning care homes, offering personalized care and a supportive environment for older adults. As an Activities Coordinator, you will play a vital role in enhancing the lives of our residents by organizing a diverse range of activities and fostering a sense of community within the home.
Main duties of the job
As an Activities Coordinator, you will be responsible for planning and implementing engaging activities that cater to the diverse interests, abilities, and cultural backgrounds of our residents. You will work closely with the Home Manager and the wider care team to create a vibrant and inclusive community where residents can maintain their hobbies, try new activities, and enjoy quality time with others. Your role will involve budgeting for entertainment, materials, and outings, as well as actively participating in and accompanying residents on offsite activities. You will demonstrate a caring nature, flexibility, and an outgoing personality to ensure our residents feel valued, respected, and able to lead fulfilling lives.
About Us
Akari Care is a leading provider of award-winning care homes, offering personalized care and a supportive environment for older adults. The company is committed to creating a community where residents are valued, respected, and provided with the care they deserve. Akari Care has a strong focus on promoting diversity, inclusion, and a positive, caring atmosphere within its homes.
Date posted
17 February 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£11.49 an hour
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
1231990728
Job locations
Akari Care
Gateshead
NE8 1QU
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Package Description
** 16 Hours per week **
If you are passionate about caring for the elderly and want to build a long-term career in one of our award-winning homes, then look no further than Akari Care. Our aim is to create an environment where our residents are valued, respected, and are offered the personalised care they deserve.
We now seek an Activities Coordinator who is enthusiastic about, and thrives on, making a real and positive difference to the lives of older people.
Working in collaboration and unity with the Home Manager and the wider and extended community teams you will be responsible for helping and engaging residents to socialise within the home. This includes providing a variety of activities that cater for all tastes, abilities, cultures and, respecting everyone as an individual, ensuring that you promote diversity and inclusion at all stages. You will plan and initiate rolling / individual programmes, encouraging residents not only to maintain pre-existing hobbies but also to endeavor to try other activities. By supporting and actively encouraging colleagues, relatives, and friends to participate in activitieswith residents you will enable additional stimulation not only in the activity itself but in promoting socialising and spending quality time with others to help enrich our residents lives. Through willingly accompanying residents, where possible, to offsite activities, you will go above and beyond for our residents.
In actively assisting with innovative fund-raising initiatives and budgeting for entertainment, materials, and outings, you will enjoy thinking creatively and out of the box with regards to ways in which additional funds can be raised to support our residents activities. You will help to ensure that you and your colleagues create an environment which is supportive, caring and kind and undertake all duties in a way which provides a secure and safe atmosphere in which our residents are valued, respected, retain their individualism and dignity in order to lead full lives.
By showing us you can match our values with the right desire for personalised excellence, community spirit and a kind, caring and compassionate nature, we, in return, can offer you a career developing your knowledge, skills and abilities to support vulnerable adults with the care their individual needs require.
What We Require From You
- Experience of working within similar environment
- Previous experience within similar type of role
- A caring nature with ability to give everyone a personal approach
- Flexible and adaptable to changes at short notice
- Work well under pressure without negative impact to those around you
- Warm, approachable, and engaging persona
- Outgoing and have an infectious personality
- Respect everyone, treating others as you would expect to be treated
- Resilient and adaptable to differing needs of colleagues and residents
- A competitive salary
- Pension contribution of 5%
- Recognition schemes and rewarding referral schemes
- Uniform provided and DBS check costs paid
- 28 days annual leave (based on full-time hours, including Bank Holidays)
- Flexible working patterns
- Fully funded training and development
- Support with personal development plans
- The opportunity to grow and develop both personally and professionally
- An engaging community environment where everyone is respected and included
Responsibilities
Job description Job responsibilities
Whats in it for you:
- A competitive salary
- Pension contribution of 5%
- Recognition schemes and rewarding referral schemes
- Uniform provided and DBS check costs paid
- 28 days annual leave (based on full-time hours, including Bank Holidays)
- Flexible working patterns
- Fully funded training and development
- Support with personal development plans
- The opportunity to grow and develop both personally and professionally
- An engaging community environment where everyone is respected and included
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
- - Experience working in a similar environment
- - Previous experience in a similar role
- - A caring nature with the ability to provide a personalized approach
- - Flexible and adaptable to changes
- - Ability to work well under pressure without negatively impacting others
- - Warm, approachable, and engaging personality
- - Experience working in a similar environment
- - Previous experience in a similar role
- - A caring nature with the ability to provide a personalized approach
- - Flexible and adaptable to changes
- - Ability to work well under pressure without negatively impacting others
- - Warm, approachable, and engaging personality
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Akari Care Limited
Address
Akari Care
Gateshead
NE8 1QU
Employer's website
https://www.akaricare.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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