Job Title: Activities Assistant
Reporting to: Activities Coordinator/General Manager
Role: Bank , flexible shifts according to the home needs
Who We Are
Loveday & Co. offers over 100 years of combined experience in elderly care, healthcare and hospitality. Loveday is recognised as the premier provider of luxury care services in London. Achieving an OUTSTANDING rating from our most recent CQC inspection, we are passionately devoted to enhancing the lives of our Members and their families. We blend our expertise in providing tailored, compassionate care, with world-class hospitality, to create an unrivalled culture of uncompromising excellence in everything we do.
The Mission
We are passionately devoted to enhancing the lives of our members and their families. We blend our expertise in providing tailored, compassionate care, with world-class hospitality, to create an unrivalled culture of uncompromising excellence in everything we do.
Scope
We currently have an exciting opportunity for an Activities Assistant to join the Loveday team. The role will lead and encourage Members to join in meaningful activities whilst maintaining their independence, choice and dignity, to enable them to lead as full and active life as possible.
Key accountabilities:
1. To assist the Activities Coordinator to organise and plan all activities within the home.
2. To Encourage Members to join in meaningful activities whilst maintaining their independence, choice and dignity, to enable them to live as full and active life as possible.
3. To create a stimulating and varied programme of leisure activities and social events, inside and outside of the home for residents to enjoy.
4. To work with each new Member to understand their likes and dislikes, abilities
and needs to put together an individual social care plan and to evaluate this regularly.
5. To assist the Activities Coordinator to engage the local community into the daily lives of residents by initiating contact with local community groups enabling residents to partake and continue with hobbies and interests as desired.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- To assist the Activities Coordinator in communicating with each Member and their families and friends where required in order to identify their social and recreational requirements according to their likes and dislikes, abilities and personal preferences.
- To liaise and consult with staff and relatives regarding the care of Members and particular activities that may be beneficial, enjoyable and stimulating.
- To assist the Activities Coordinator to produce a monthly, weekly and daily programme of wonderful activities and social events and ensure it is advertised within the home and communicated to all Members.
- To liaise with relatives and staff regarding special individual requirements such as birthdays and anniversaries, cultural and religious festivals and celebrations, and to be aware of the religious calendar that may affect activity pursuits, relevant to the ethnic mix of Members.
- To familiarise and connect with all key community groups and businesses whose particular expertise would make an invaluable contribution to the care home.
- To work as an active team member with your colleagues within the home to ensure
- the highest standards of care are achieved.
- To undertake any reasonable request which facilitates the resident’s right to choice, dignity and respect.
Renumeration, Perks and Benefits
The successful candidate will be paid the London Living Wage and will enjoy perks and benefits such as:
- Paid Breaks
- Staff Meals
- Perkbox Membership
- Health Assured Employee Assistance Program
- Discretionary Bonus
- Comprehensive Training and Development
- Scope for progression and promotion within the company as we grow from one Care Home to the development and subsequent opening of new homes in London.
Eligibility
In line with the requirements of the Asylum & Immigration Act 1996, all applicants must either be eligible to live and work in the UK or must obtain permits to work in the UK prior to application. Documented evidence of eligibility will be required from candidates as part of the recruitment process.
Loveday & Co is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
