Care Activities Coordinator - Oakleaf Recruitment : Job Details

Job title: Care Activities Coordinator

Location: Champion House, Clara Dr, Calverley, Pudsey LS28 5QP

Rate Of Pay: £11.44

Shift Patterns: 30hrs a week contract, Days and Weekends

Information about the Role:

Working as a Care Activities Coordinator at Champion House your duties will include the following:

• To lead and encourage residents to join in meaningful activities whilst maintaining their independence, choice, and dignity, to enable them to lead as full and active life as possible.
• To create a stimulating and varied programme of leisure activities and social events, inside and outside of the home, for residents to enjoy.
• To work with each new resident to understand their likes/dislikes, abilities and needs to put together an individual social care plan and to evaluate regularly.
• To engage the local community into the daily lives of residents by initiating contact with local community groups enabling residents to partake / continue with hobbies and interests as desired.

Information about the Service:

We specialise in supporting people who have varying needs as a result of physical and long term neurological conditions including cerebral palsy, brain injury, Huntington’s disease, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, spina bifida & hydrocephalus and stroke. Our teams are highly skilled and trained to deliver specialist and complex nursing care and have significant experience with tracheostomy, PEG care, wound management and the provision of end of life care. The full-time support we provide is flexible and designed to help build skills, inspire confidence and encourage people to live more independently.

Necessary Experience or Qualifications:

Someone who has a real passion for caring and helping people.

• Ideally 6-months experience as an Care Activities Coordinator or 1 year working as an experienced Support Worker / Healthcare Assistant or Community Carer.
• Ability to work on shift/rota pattern.
• Have the right to the work in the UK

Oakleaf Recruitment are the In-House Recruitment Team for a growing group of Services and Hospitals across the UK.