Activities Coordinator (Huntingdon)
Barchester Healthcare - Barchester Healthcare (Huntingdon) HuntingdonThe role
As an Activities Coordinator at a Barchester care home, you’ll help to create a stimulating environment that enables us to deliver exceptional all-round care and support for our residents. Our ethos is all about celebrating life, so you’ll help to devise imaginative, fun and motivational activities that suit every interest and ability. An extremely rewarding role, part of your time as an Activities Coordinator will be spent getting to know our residents and their families before you create tailored activities programmes focused on maximising everyone’s wellbeing, independence and social engagement.
What we’re looking for
ABOUT YOU
You’ll need to be warm, empathetic and personable to join us as an Activities Coordinator.
Your organisational skills and driven mind-set mean you always get things done and make things happen. Meanwhile, your infectious enthusiasm and creative approach will inspire our residents and staff to get involved in activities both within the home and in the local community.
Any similar experience would be ideal, but it isn’t essential – especially because we’ll make sure you have the training you need to develop your skills and progress your career with us.
Our benefits
REWARDS PACKAGE
In return for your dedication, you’ll receive a competitive rate of pay plus our sector-leading benefits and rewards package including:
- Free training and development for all roles
- Access to wellbeing and support tools
- A range of retail discounts and saving
- Unlimited referrals with our ‘Refer a Friend’ bonus scheme
- Employee of the Month’ rewards and ‘Long Service Awards’
And so much more!
The company
Welcome to Barchester Healthcare, where we specialise in delivering top quality care to the people living in our well staffed, comfortable, secure and happy homes.
We believe every one of the individuals we support deserves dignity, choice and independence. For us, recognising individuality means listening to what people tell us and ensuring every day is thoroughly enjoyable. Our approach includes jointly written care plans designed to help us learn about personal likes and dislikes as well as helping to set care and rehabilitative goals encouraging independence. We help the people we support keep up community links and welcome those visits from family and friends that can be so important.
Areas of expertise
We offer a wide variety of care options from short- and long-term residential care to nursing services, assisted living as well as registered hospitals and a range of services for adults with severe disabilities or mental health needs.
We constantly strive to provide a consistent and high-quality service. We do this through our staff.
We recruit motivated and compassionate people, then develop, manage and invest heavily in their training so that they not only do an excellent job but love their jobs, too. This makes happier homes for the people we support.