Brentwood Care Centre are looking for a Lifestyle-Activity Lead to join their friendly team and enhance the lived experience of our residents.
The role is to lead lifestyle activities, ensuring that meaningful, enjoyable, engaging and stimulating programs are planned, organized, promoted and implemented in the home for all residents in line with relationship‑centred care, clinical care and dementia care principles, policies, procedures and best practice guidelines.
Responsibilities
* Motivate, inspire and mobilise team members in the home to engage in the provision of stimulating activities.
* Spend approximately 80% of the working time delivering vibrant activities across all units of the home, tailoring programs to the needs of different resident groups (residential communities, dementia care, bed‑bound).
* Design, develop and implement the home newsletter that reports on the home’s events and activities.
* 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 and motivating other care team members.
* Experience of organising and scheduling programmes, events or activities.
* Experience working and/or engaging with older people, both living with and without dementia.
* Experience delivering high‑quality, relationship‑centred care.
Skills & Knowledge
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Clinical skills relevant to residential care.
* Knowledge of and competence in core Microsoft Office applications.
* Passionate and keen to develop new skills.
* Listening skills and ability to manage data for record‑keeping and review.
* Efficient organisation and prioritisation of workloads under pressure.
Personal Qualities
* Reliable, flexible, adaptable and punctual.
* Willingness and ability to work outside standard hours.
* Approachable, friendly, positive outlook and professional demeanor.
* Self‑motivated and capable of promoting a professional image for the company at all times.
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