Lifestyle Coordinator - Sleaford Hall - Sleaford
Are you creative? Do you like to bring new ideas in your job but have never been allowed free reign? We can offer you a position as a Lifestyle Manager to join our amazing care home and make the activities your own!
You will oversee the day our residents have in terms of fun! You can work with them to decide what they will enjoy, what will keep them engaged and stimulated. The world is your oyster!
At Tanglewood, we fully support loyal, compassionate, and hardworking individuals. We advocate training and give you all the training needed to progress in your career depending on where you see yourself going. A career in care offers you stability, training to develop yourself, the team, and home.
At Sleaford Hall, we are looking for someone who can engage, create fun, listen to the residents, be empathetic to their needs, and have that fun and enthusiastic air about them. It is such an important position and a fun one too!
Responsibilities:
1. Help clients to socialise within the care home and provide a diverse variety of activities that cater for all individuals.
2. Accompany clients, where possible, to off-site activities which may occasionally take place outside normal working hours.
3. Assist with fundraising and budgeting for entertainments, materials, and outings.
4. Maintain full and accurate records of daily activities using appropriate documentation and assist the named carer to review and update client care files.
5. Provide comfort and company on a one-to-one basis for clients who are unable to undertake any form of activity.
6. Actively market the care home and promote a positive personal/professional profile within the local community.
7. Help to create an atmosphere that suits individual clients within the care home.
8. Undertake all the administration for activities, including production of the monthly newsletter, posters, booking of acts, and booking of transport required for activities.
9. Distribute post and newspapers to residents.
10. Be a listening ear to pass on concerns or queries, helping residents feel settled.
11. Ensure their own personal space feels as homely as residents want it to be.
12. Ensure your residents are comfortable and liaise as necessary with housekeeping, maintenance, care team leaders, catering, hairdressing, and chiropody.
13. Help with correspondence, banking, shopping, post office, library, booking a table at a restaurant, keeping in touch with family, emailing, and phoning.
14. Spend one-to-one time, e.g., looking at photo albums, general chatting, reading, and talking.
15. Adapt and create an atmosphere that suits individual residents and their needs.
We value our staff, and if you want to make a difference for yourself and our residents, then apply! We all share the same Unique Vision and Values and if you do too, then come and join us:
* United
* Nurturing
* Innovative
* Quality
* Understanding
* Empathetic
Tanglewood has competitive rates of pay, stability in shift patterns, and an abundance of benefits:
* Free tunic when you begin.
* Meals included on shift.
* Induction and initial training for the role you begin.
* Ongoing refresher training and staff development and unique training tailored to your career route.
* Time and a half on all bank holidays.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £11.44 per hour
Expected hours: 32 per week
Benefits:
* Discounted or free food
* Employee discount
* On-site parking
* Referral programme
Schedule:
* Day shift
Experience:
* Care home: 1 year (preferred)
* Activities Planning: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
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