Barchester Healthcare
Activities Assistant - Care Home
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Activities Assistant - Care Home
About The Role
As an Activities Assistant at a Barchester care home, you'll deliver imaginative, fun, and varied activities to ensure our residents can enjoy an environment that is motivational and fulfilling. We want to make sure each individual can pursue the interests they most enjoy, and that means you’ll have a real impact on our residents' lives.
The Activities Assistant role involves helping us deliver an entertainment and activities programme that covers a wide range of:
- Pastimes
- Social activities
- Outings
- Events
Put simply, you'll help every resident live as independently as possible and enhance their involvement with their family, friends, and the local community.
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About You
You don’t need any specific experience to join us as an Activities Assistant, so you could come from any background. What’s important is that you:
- Have a sense of fun and creativity
- Can encourage and motivate others effectively
- Possess that little extra something: a real interest in the people we support
Key traits of a successful candidate include:
- Enthusiasm for helping residents live life to the full
- Empathy towards those we support
- Eagerness to develop both personally and professionally
You’ll have every opportunity to grow through a range of training courses designed to build your confidence across every aspect of your role.
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Rewards Package
In return for your dedication, you’ll receive:
- A competitive rate of pay
- Full access to our sector-leading benefits and rewards, including:
- Free training and development for all roles
- Access to wellbeing and support tools
- Retail discounts and savings
- Unlimited ‘Refer a Friend’ bonus scheme contributions
- Employee of the Month rewards and Long Service Awards
- Workplace Pension scheme with 3% Employer contributions from day one
- And so much more!
If you’d like to use your creativity and people skills in an organisation that provides quality care for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.
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