This role as a Wellbeing and Activities Assistant at Avery Healthcare will focus on supporting the Wellbeing Coordinator in providing a wide range of activities to engage and stimulate the residents' physical, cognitive, and social well-being. You will be part of a caring, supportive team that values respect, compassion, and exceptional care for the residents.
Main duties of the job
As Wellbeing and Activities Assistant, your responsibilities will include maintaining a safe living and working environment, contributing to the positive and professional image of the home, reporting any changes in residents' physical or emotional condition, supporting with ordering and preparing supplies for upcoming activities, and establishing links with the local community to encourage access and promote intergenerational activity.
About us
Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. They are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for their residents and team members, offering exceptional care across their growing network of over 100 homes. Avery Healthcare is a place where people love to work, building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.
Job responsibilities
As Wellbeing and Activities Assistant, your focus will be to support the Wellbeing Coordinator in providing a wide range of activities to engage and stimulate the residents' physical, cognitive, and social well-being.
Other responsibilities will include:
* Maintaining a safe living and working environment, contributing to the positive and professional image of the home.
* Reporting any changes in residents' physical or emotional condition to the Wellbeing and Activity Coordinator, Home Manager, and the care staff.
* Supporting with ordering and preparing supplies for upcoming activities as directed.
* Supporting establishing links with the local community (e.g., schools, spiritual groups, museums/libraries) to encourage access to the wider community and promote intergenerational activity.
About you
To succeed in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in everything you do.
Our ideal candidate must:
* Have effective communication skills, verbal and written.
* Demonstrate understanding of the role interaction plays in the general well-being of people.
* Have a positive attitude toward older people and a commitment to providing stimulating, quality activities and social events.
* Have previously worked with older people in a residential nursing Dementia setting.
Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you should have effective communication skills, demonstrate understanding of the role interaction plays in the general well-being of people, have a positive attitude toward older people and a commitment to providing stimulating, quality activities and social events, and have previously worked with older people in a residential nursing Dementia setting.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
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