Activities Co-Ordinator

Exemplar Health Care; Stockport; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A care provider in Stockport seeks a part-time Activities Coordinator to organize and lead engaging activities, supporting individuals in maintaining their interests and fostering community. The role offers 20 hours per week at £12.21 per hour, providing a chance to make a meaningful difference in the lives of residents. Candidates should be creative, caring, and enthusiastic, with opportunities for training and development.

Benefits

Access to wages before payday

Retail and lifestyle discounts

Free DBS check

24/7 counselling and support

Career prospects

Qualifications

• Caring and kind with a sense of humor.
• Ability to identify and engage with individual needs.
• Enthusiastic and encouraging personality.

Responsibilities

• Organize individual activity plans based on unique goals.
• Foster community spirit through group activities.
• Support people in maintaining hobbies and interests.
• Celebrate individual and collective achievements.

Skills

Creativity

Communication

Empathy

Organizational skills

Job description

Position:Activities Coordinator
Care home:Adswood Lodge
Location:Stockport, SK3 8HZ
Contract type: Part-Time 20 hours per week
Rate: £12.21 per hour

Are you an enthusiastic people person who loves to bring the fun? 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.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference every day. Join us as our new Activities Coordinator/Life Skills Coordinator at Adswood Lodge care home in Stockport.

About Exemplar Health Care

Adswood Lodge is part of Exemplar Health Care, a leading provider of nursing care for adults living with complex and high acuity needs.

We support adults living with complex mental health needs and neuro disabilities including Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease.

We’re a brand new home, opened in April 2023, which means it’s an incredibly exciting time to join our growing team.

As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.

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, and take up new, hobbies, interests and educational opportunities
• 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, our high staffing levels give you the time to deliver truly person-centred activities, with a supportive team around you.

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Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

You’re also:

• caring, kind and able to see the funny side of life
• a creative thinker, always on the lookout for new activities and ideas
• enthusiastic, encouraging and inclusive
• a born organiser with a positive, can-do approach
• great at listening and communicating
• understanding of 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. We value relevant experience and qualifications, but they aren’t essential for this role.

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.

How to apply

Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’.

For an informal chat about joining us, call us on 01977 630830 or email [e-mail].

Please note,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.

Public transport to Adswood Lodge

The home is a short walk from several bus stops.

Shaw Road South bus stop (stop ID: MANJATJT), which is accessed by bus 313.

Range Road bus stop (stop ID: MANJATJP), which is accessed by bus 374.

Bramhall Lane (Stop B) bus stop (stop ID: MANJMATG), which is accessed by buses 192, 199 skyline and 385.

There are two train stations in the local area.

Stockport - 0.8miles away (18 minute walk).

Davenport - 0.6 miles away (14 minute walk).

Adswood Lodge is a short drive from junction 1 of the M60 and other major roads including Wellington Road S and Buxton Road.

There's limited parking at the front of the building. The main car park is accessed via Lorne Grove.

To get to the car park from the home, head west on Adswood Lane West towards Warren Road.

Turn right onto Shaw Road and then right onto Lorne Grove.

The car park is at the end of the street.