Activities Officer – Mzsj13q

Personal Specification:

Essential:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Enthusiastic about events
• Creative, lateral thinker with good problem solving skills
• An interest in working with the elderly
• Good excel and mathematical skills
• Ability to work to budgets
• Good organisational skills
• Self-motivated with the initiative and ability to work without direct supervision
• Understands and reacts to diverse individual needs

Desirable:

• Previous experience in working with the Elderly or in Care
• Previous experience in organising events
• Previous experience of using financial spreadsheets
• Have a creative, artistic flair
• Ability to plan ahead and put ideas into practise
• NAPA Activity Worker Level 2 Award qualification
• Previous experience of evaluating and writing risk assessments
• Driving licence and use of own car
• Understanding of how dementia can affect an individual

Main Duties

Activities

• Create and maintain a rolling activities schedule
• Ensure production of a weekly activity schedule with full risk assessments
• Create posters displaying activities scheduled for the coming week
• Accurately record activities you have carried out with service users
• Provide one to one and group activities to the service users on a daily basis
• Carry out regular fundraising activities

Activities Budget

• Maintain an accurate spreadsheet of activities spend and provide a monthly copy of this to the Finance Manager
• Allocate the activities budget appropriately and order materials where required

Newsletter

• Prepare a monthly newsletter across the homes that outlines birthdays, new staff, leaving staff and activities
• Design the newsletter (it must have a consistent format)
• Distribute the newsletter to residents, staff, local authorities and other places of interest
  

Outreach

• Initiate and maintain contact with local churches, youth groups, clubs, schools and societies in the community.
• Organise day trips for residents
• Identify and encourage volunteers from the community
• Attend and minute residents and relatives meetings at all homes in the Heritage group

Training and Development

• Participate in monthly supervision sessions
• Attend training when requested

Management

• Manage any volunteers supplied to you
• Supervision of the Activities Co-ordinator
• Preparing a Monthly Activities Rota for all activities staff

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we regret we may not be able to speak to everyone, therefore if you have not heard from us within 7 days of submitting your application then unfortunately you have not been successful on this occasion.

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