Overview
The Withens are looking for a Lifestyle-Activity lead to join their friendly team to enhance the lived experience of our residents.
The role is leading a lifestyle lead, to ensure meaningful, enjoyable, engaging and stimulating activities are planned, organised, promoted and implemented in the home for all residents in line with principles, policies, procedures and best practice guidelines for relationship centered care, clinical care and dementia care.
Responsibilities
* Lead a lifestyle lead to ensure meaningful, enjoyable, engaging and stimulating activities are planned, organised, promoted and implemented in the home for all residents in line with principles, policies, procedures and best practice guidelines for relationship centered care, clinical care and dementia care.
* Motivate, inspire and mobilise team members in the home to be involved and engaged in the provision of stimulating activities within the resident's environment.
* Spend 80% of working time delivering vibrant activities to all residents across units in the home.
* Plan, organise, promote and implement a meaningful, enjoyable, engaging and stimulating activities programme based on relationship centered care principles.
* Lead on the design, development and implementation of the home newsletter that reports on the home's events and activities of interest.
* Ensure records relating to activities are accurate and up to date.
Qualifications/Education
* NVQ HSC level 3 or QCF HSC award 3 (not essential).
Experience
* Proven track record of organising, coordinating, motivating other staff.
* Experience of organising and scheduling programmes of events or activities.
* Experience of working and/or engaging with older people (both living with and without Dementia).
* Experience delivering high quality relationship centered care.
Skills/Knowledge
* Excellent communication (written and verbal) and clinical skills.
* Knowledge of and competence in core Microsoft Office applications.
* Passionate and keen to develop new skills.
* Listening skills.
* Data management (for record keeping and review).
* Ability to organise efficiently and prioritise workloads whilst under pressure.
Personal Qualities
* Reliable, flexible, adaptable, punctual.
* Will and able to work outside the standard work hours.
* Approachable and friendly.
* Positive in outlook and manner.
* Self-motivated.
* Able to promote a professional image for the company at all times.
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