Job Description
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & QUALIFICATIONS
20 Hours a week
Required:
* Proven ability to develop and organise a range of events / activities for Clients in all Client categories
* Good communication and organisational skills
* Team player
* Ability to work on own initiative
* Friendly, creative and confident
* Genuine interest in working with the relevant Client group
* Satisfactory Police Check and check against the POVA List (where applicable)
Desired:
* Previous experience of working with the relevant Client group
* Qualification in remedial / occupational therapies
* Flexible approach towards working routines
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Activities:
* Help Clients to socialise within the Care Centre, and provide a variety of activities that cater for all tastes.
* Plan and initiate monthly rolling / individual programmes, and encourage Clients to maintain pre-existing hobbies.
* Encourage Staff Members, Relatives and Friends to participate in the Care Centre's activities.
* Accompany Clients, where possible, to off-site activities, which may occasionally take place outwith normal working hours.
* Help to create an atmosphere that suits individual Clients within the Care Centre.
* Assist with fund raising, and budgeting, for entertainments, materials and outings.
* Maintain full and accurate records of daily activities using appropriate documentation, and assist the Named Carer to review and update Client Care Files.
Communication:
* Discuss the aims and objectives of recreation therapy with other Staff Members.
* Report any changes in Clients' physical or emotional condition to the Home Manager or Person in Charge.
* Provide comfort and company, on a one to one basis, for Clients who are unable to undertake any form of activity.
* Arrange / participate in Staff and Client meetings, as and when required.
Human Resources (HR):
* Assist the Home Manager when interviewing relevant Volunteers and assistant Staff Members, and supervise their work, in line with the Company's policies and procedures.
Marketing:
* Actively market the Care Centre and promote a positive personal / professional profile within the local community, ensuring the good reputation of the Care Centre at all times.
Training & Development:
* Ensure all Staff Members know how to use appropriate equipment.
* Attend mandatory training days/courses, on or off site, as and when required.
* Maintain professional knowledge and competence.
Health & Safety:
* Report immediately to the Home Manager, or Person in Charge, any illness of an infectious nature or accident incurred by a Client, colleague, self or another.
* Understand and ensure the implementation of the Care Centre's Health and Safety policy, and Emergency and Fire procedures.
* Report to the Home Manager, or the Handyperson, any faulty appliances, damaged furniture, equipment or any potential hazard.
* Promote safe working practice in the Care Centre.
General:
* Ensure that all information of confidential nature gained in the course of duty is not divulged to third parties.
* Notify the Home Manager, or the Person in Charge, as soon as possible of your inability to work, and also on your return to work from all periods of absence.
* Ensure the security of the Care Centre is maintained at all times.
* Adhere to all Company policies and procedures within the defined timescales.
* Ensure all equipment is clean and well maintained.
* Carry out any other tasks that may be reasonably assigned to you.Safe Guarding of Vulnerable Adults.
* Ensure you have a broad understanding and knowledge of safeguarding and how the principals are applied in practice.
* You should ensure that you have read the SOVA policy and ensure your knowledge is kept up to date.
* Understand the reporting and escalation process
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: From £12.21 per hour
Benefits:
* On-site parking
Work Location: In person