Description
Activity Leader
Care Homes City Wide
Salary: £26,337 - £28,835
Hours: Full-time 36 hours per week
Social care is a challenging and rewarding career. Our care staff work with some of Edinburgh's most vulnerable residents. Working in Adult Social Care is a way to make a real difference to the lives of adults and it is extremely rewarding.
As activity leader we want you to have the skills and attributes to develop good personal relationships with residents, their families and friends and with care staff. Creating and delivering engaging, life enhancing and fun activities and supporting older people to engage in a range of activities. To have imagination and understanding to develop a suitable, person centred programme of individual and group activities to meet the specific physical and psychological needs of older people resident in a care home.
Some physical effort required such as lifting, manual use of equipment, manual dexterity based on arts and crafts and dancing
An ability to provide some personal care if required particularly in the community on outings. You will require a minimum SVQ2 Qualification in Health and Social Care.
If you treat others with respect, listen to their needs show compassion, understanding, patience, empathy, commitment, respect and kindness and are keen to learn that's a great start, and we want to meet you.
We will help you to develop your skills further and work towards SVQ level 3. If you are career minded, opportunities are available for career progression. We will support you to gain formal qualifications (SVQ's) which show you have the skills and knowledge to make a difference in the sector. You can also become a member of a professional body (SSSC) alongside thousands of social care professionals across Scotland.
We can offer you excellent training, good rates of pay, excellent holiday entitlement, a generous pension scheme and range of staff benefits.
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Happy to talk flexible working.
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View Activity Leader Job Pack
Responsibilities
Experience
* Delivering engaging, life enhancing and fun activities to people who might struggle to participate Essential
- Working with others such as care staff and Third Sector colleague in partnership to develop a programme of activities that promotes resident well being Essential
- Working with people in a person centred and personal outcome focused way Essential
* Supporting older people engage in a range of activities Desirable
* Providing a range of activities to meet the specific physical and psychological needs of older people resident in a care home Desirable
- Teaching and develop new skills which promotes residents well-being and supporting residents to relearn skills which promote resident well being Desirable
Knowledge, skills and understanding
* To have imagination and understanding to develop a suitable, person centred programme of individual and group activities. Essential
* To have the skills and attributes to develop good personal relationships with residents, their families and friends and with care staff. Essential
* You will have the skills to influence others including residents and care staff Essential
* The skills and knowledge to develop a programme of activities relevant to the age and stage of the person taking account of any impairment or disability Desirable
Qualifications and training
* You will have an S.V.Q. II in Social Care/Health working towards an SVQ III to meet SSSC registration requirements Essential
* SVQ3 in H&SC or another related field or equivalent Desirable
Job specific requirements
* Programme of activities must be robust and consistent and part of daily life and routine of the care home Essential
- Some physical effort required such as lifting, manual use of equipment, manual dexterity based on arts and crafts and dancing Essential
- An ability to provide some personal care if required particularly in the community on outings. Essential
* Not every section needs a desirable – so in this case maybe everything is asked for at essential stage. Desirable