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Activities Coordinator
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Position:Activities Coordinator
Care home:Lepton Heights
Location:36 Wakefield Road, Fenay Bridge, Huddersfield, HD8 0BG
Contract type:Full time – 40 hours per week
Rate:£11.44 per hour
New Home opening in January 2025
Are you an enthusiastic people person who loves to bring the fun? As an Activities Coordinator, youll organise and lead meaningful and entertaining activities for the people we support. Youll play a key role in empowering them to live fulfilled and happy lives.
Lepton Heights care home is set to open in 2025, offering you a unique opportunity to be part of a brand-new team in a state-of-the-art, purpose-built home. This is your chance to truly make an impact!
Sound exciting? Apply now to join us as our new Activities Coordinator at Lepton Heights.
About Lepton Heights
Lepton Heights is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the countrys leading nursing care providers.
When open, Lepton Heights will support adults living with acquired brain injuries, complex mental health needs, dementia and physical disabilities.
Although the home is set to open in January 2025, youll begin a tailored induction one month prior.
This will give you the opportunity to learn about the company, meet your colleagues and complete your training, so you’re fully prepared when the home officially opens.
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:
- organisingindividual activity plansbased on peoples unique goals and interests
- fostering community spirit throughgroup activities
- supporting people to maintain their current, and take up new,hobbies, interests and educational opportunities
- assisting people to become more involved in theirlocal community
- celebrating nationalawareness days, holidays and individual/collective achievements
- promoting choice,dignityand independence.
As part of our mission to makeevery day better, our high staffing levels give you the time to deliver truly person-centred activities, with a supportive team around you.
Download our job description to read more:
https://brochures.exemplarhc.com/view/1030735227/
About you
Above all, youre someone who identifies with our values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.
Youre 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.
Youll put people at the heart of everything you do.
If you havent worked in the care sector before, well 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 arent 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 with Wagestream
- retail and lifestyle discounts
- free DBS check
- 24/7 counselling and support
- Blue Light Card eligibility.
How to apply
Sound good? Wed love to hear from you. Click the button to APPLY NOW.
Please note,applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. Were unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
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