Community Centre Activities Assistant (Part Time)

Jewish Care; Enfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading charity for older people in the UK is seeking a Community Centre Activities Assistant. This role involves delivering day services and supporting various activities for older members, including those with dementia. You will also be responsible for personal care and ensuring the smooth operation of member transportation. The position requires flexibility and the ability to work with diverse clients.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Qualifications

• Willingness to work towards a qualification in Health & Social Care.
• Experience working with groups and individual clients.
• Experience with older people with varying abilities and needs.

Responsibilities

• Running and taking part in activities for older people.
• Providing personal care duties as indicated in care plans.
• Supporting members with transportation arrangements.

Skills

Experience of working with older people

Experience of working in recreational/social activity

Awareness of physical and mental health issues

Experience working in partnership with families

Education

Relevant qualification within Health & Social Care

Job description

Jewish Care’s Community Centres are at the heart of changing people’s lives for the better. We aim to ensure that Jewish older people lead a meaningful life, have a sense of belonging and participate in their community through attending our Community Centres.

The Community Centre Activities Assistant is responsible for front line delivery of day services to Jewish Care members, including running and supporting with activities such as chair based-exercise classes, discussion groups, card games and board games.

This role may involve tasks within the persons care plan that includes personal care.

Jewish Care supports flexible working opportunities, and this role may be able to support working parents.

This post is working 15 hours per week on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

What you will be doing

• Running and taking part in activities and programmes in a culturally specific Jewish Day service for older people, people living with dementia and at associated programming and events.
• Working together with programming teams to set up technology to support members taking part in activities at home – such as online social discussion groups and exercise classes.
• Confidently raising and reporting safeguarding concerns.
• Providing personal care duties, as indicated in a person’s care plan.
• Taking part in care plan meetings with colleagues, internal Social Work colleagues, relatives, and external agencies.
• Promoting the Montessori approach to dementia care.
• Supporting Care Bus Drivers with the collection of members from their home to the centre, ensuring their needs are met.
• Supporting members to coordinate and organise their transport arrangements to and from the centre to include assisting with booking and managing dial-a-ride, other community transport private hire and public transport.

What you’ll bring to Jewish Care

• Relevant qualification within Health & Social Care or willingness to work towards.
• Experience of working in the field of recreational/social activity.
• Experience of working with individual clients and with groups.
• Experience of working with older people with varying abilities and needs who may also suffer from Dementia.
• Experience working in partnership with families, carers, volunteers, and community members.
• Awareness of physical and mental health issues affecting older people.

Jewish Care is the largest provider of health and social care services for the Jewish community in the UK. Every week, we touch the lives of 10,000 people. We provide services to a range of people including older people, people with mental health needs and people living with dementia.

Our five values are at the heart of the way we work. They drive how we act as individuals and as an organisation and shape our culture. We value Excellence, Integrity, Innovation, Compassion, and Inclusivity.

Jewish Care operate a rolling recruitment process and reserve the right to close the advert once a suitable candidate has been identified.